The Fugue pitch perfect for Eclipse

John Gosden is under no illusions about the task facing The Fugue as she aims to follow up last month’s Royal Ascot triumph in the Coral-Eclipse at Sandown today.

The five-year-old clinched her fourth Group One victory with a brilliant display in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes in Berkshire and is due to turn out less than three weeks later, providing ground conditions do not deteriorate.

“It’s only two and a half weeks since Ascot and remember that when they go and break track records, even if it looks as if they’ve done it easily, it’s a big ask,” Gosden said.