Paddington Steps Up To Win Over A Mile In The Coral-Eclipse

This year’s renewal of the Coral-Eclipse at Sandown Park, was the clash we all anticipated with the impressive Paddington edging the tenacious Emily Upjohn at the finish. The three-year old is the first horse to win both the Irish 2000 Guineas and the Coral-Eclipse since Sadler’s Weld in 1984, and achieves his third Group One win in a row, also winning the St James’s Palace Stakes at Ascot last month.

Even though many will have thought his run was faultless going head-to-head with two-time Group One winner Emily Upjohn, speaking to ITV after the race Ryan Moore commented “he’s seriously top class… but we’ve not seen the best of him today”.

Paddington hands Aidan O’Brien his record-breaking seventh Coral-Eclipse win and will look to see if he can do it all again in the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood in August.