VIP SATURDAY SANDOWN - 3.00 - BLUE BOLT 2/1 - 1 point win SANDOWN - 1.50 - SHAGRAAN 12/1 - 0.5 ew HAYDOCK - 3.15 - PADDY THE SQUIRE 7/1 - 0.5 ew HAYDOCK - 4.25 - KINGS LYNN 10/1 - 0.5 ew LEICESTER - 5.10 - BALQAA 13/2 - 0.5 ew TOTAL POINTS - 3 CORAL ECLIPSE PREVIEW: CORAL ECLIPSE DAY is here ! I had every intention of trying to take OMBUDSMAN on earlier in the week as he was odds on. I think he is good value if you can get 11/10. The each way angle has gone now with 2 places paid and only 6 runners or we would have snapped up the price of HOTAZHELL at 25/1 who is the rank outsider of the race. All have live chances - every horse is a Group 1 Winner this year - some of these are arguably still unexposed and not finished improving - scarily to say - I’m not sure we have seen the finished article from OMBUDSMAN yet who keeps getting better with each race. The fact that Buick dismounts the 2000 Guineas winner RULING COURT (Oisin rides) speaks volumes to how good they believe OMBUDSMAN to be… he’s clearly the number 1 shout for Godolphin today in terms of expectations from both connections and the market. HOTAZHELL and SOSIE especially are the two who need some rain to come. All of SOSIES G1 winning exploits in France come with cut in the ground. He is a star theres no doubt about it but I can’t bet on her unless the going has some soft in the description as I’m not taking a chance in a race like this to assume he can run a race to standard of 125+ on good-firm ground. In all honesty I’d be more surprised if he ends up running. This horse was fav a few weeks back for this race and the ARC before OMBUDSMAN ran to a projected rating of 128 at Ascot . No other horse in the line up has got near this rating - they all need to improve around 8+ lbs with a career best race to beat that Ascot form of OMBUDSMAN and this is assuming that the fav doesn’t improve again for todays race… The surprise of the day for me is that Moore has stuck with Derby flop DELACROIX 9/2 for his ride rather than CAMILLLE PISSARO 10/1. Although CAMILLES recent winning has been done in France on G-S ground she has dramatically improved and hit the high notes at the right time when winning the French Derby despite meeting worse traffic than a Monday morning on the way to work. She shouldn’t have issues with good ground as her early career in Ireland delivered numerous wins and decent performances on it. This is going to be some race today. I’m waiting to see if OMBUDSMAN gets some sort of boost and it’s imperative to get an update on the ground closer to the race before making our final decision here for the big one!!!