Ryan Moore riding Delacroix (right, in purple) win The Coral Eclipse from William Buick and Ombudsman (left, blue) at Sandown in July. Photograph: Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images
It risks tempting fate but for once next Saturday’s Qipco Champion Stakes at Ascot might do what it says on the tin.
Aidan O’Brien’s call to give the all but priceless Delacroix a final career start before going to stud sets up a rare tripartite clash of superpower talents that also includes Godolphin’s Ombudsman and the French star Calandagan.
An apparently even rarer weather “omega block” looks like providing unusually decent ground conditions and contributes to a British Champions Day scenario that lives up to its billing as a championship climax.
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