Overview

• Six horses will contest today’s 3.35 pm Group 1 Coral-Eclipse at Sandown: Ombudsman, Sosie, Camille Pissarro, Delacroix, Ruling Court and Hotazhell.
• Overnight watering produced a good-to-firm, firm-in-places surface after declarations on Thursday cut the field from 11 to six.
• William Buick rides Royal Ascot hero Ombudsman, who boasts five wins from six starts including a decisive Prince of Wales’s Stakes success.
• Oisin Murphy, resuming domestic rides after a driving ban, partners Charlie Appleby’s 2,000 Guineas winner Ruling Court.
• Andre Fabre’s Sosie arrives unbeaten in two Group 1 runs this year and French Derby victor Camille Pissarro brings further Classic form.