Delacroix can Eclipse his rivals

DELACROIX can reestablish himself as a topnotch performer with victory in a crackerjack clash of the generations in the Coral-Eclipse at Sandown today.

- BY NICK GRANT

Smart last year, he set off this campaign looking the real deal, bagging two Derby trials and going off as favourite for the premier Classic at Epsom.

He had dismissed Lambourn in the first of those Leopardstown trial victories, but come the big day little went right, as he had lost his position somewhat before being hampered by Pride Of Arras.

That left him with a mountain to climb and while he ran on to finish ninth, it was a performance trainer Aidan O’Brien felt needed a line putting through it.