Sandown - Coral Eclipse 2009

Sea The Stars romps home to see of Rip Van Winkle to win the 2009 Coral Eclipse

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Sports

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• Coral
• Eclipse
• RUK
• Sea The Stars
• Sandown John Oxx
• Rip Van Winkle

[amazed66]

@horseracingfan LOL...in their own back yards? You make it sound like the English horse raced on those tracks all the time.

Racing is an international sport now, which is why English and French horses regularly win the Irish classics and in fact 2 fillies trained in England have actually won the Irish Derby in the last 20 years.

On the subject of this race though, anyone notice RvW getting a smack across the head by Kinane's whip at about 3:47 that seemed to check his run?

[Newworldman66]

@tigerarmyrule STS didn't run in the KG! Oxx didn't fancy STS taking on the older horses over 12f at that time of the season so he swerved it preferring the 'challenge' of the 10.4f Juddmonte against a miler and 2 AOB pacemakers.

[ILuvTurfRacing01]

Being very young, naive, and foolish at the time, LOL, I thought if anyone was finally going to get Sea The Stars in one of these major G1 stakes races that this would be the day. With Ballydoyle and Sir Michael Stoute both throwing pacemakers into this race, i.e., Malibu Bay and Lang Shining, I though they'd go such a good clip on the front end that it would set the finish up perfectly for Conduit to thunder home. But like I said before, I was naive and foolish then, and quickly learned better.

[ILuvTurfRacing01]

@Target922, Totally agree with you about Jim McGrath's race calls, 110%!! Love to hear him call the big races. His commentary in the Arc De Triomphe every years is simply the best!!

[Target922]

McGrath is simply a fantastic race caller. Almost makes me consider moving to the UK. :)

[UPYOURSBG]

@Newworldman66 ......spot on .........the biggest reason why in my opinion the whip should be banned......i see it time and time again when horses look like they are gonna pass another but dont because there is a whip being waved in front of its face.....this is a classic example and proof of it was the way that RVW came back again once the whip was not flashed in front of it.

[Markhitman07]

The commentators reaction when RVW came at Sea the stars, he accelerates!!!

Say it all.

[joemynes]

@szetotakwa I actually dont think the Derby/King George/Arc treble should be considered the real treble, because a guineas is a classic and over 1m, it shows how versatile a horse is if it has the speed to beat horses like delegator over a mile then step up and beat the worlds best 1m4f horses, and judging by what won 2009 king george (conduit) i think STS would have won the king george if he went to it.

[Jamie2462A]

The Flat equivelent of Big Bucks. What ever they throw at him he found more and more. Great horse.

[szetotakwa]

@ASupremeOwl How about Lammtarra's Derby/King George/Arc treble? That should be considered as the real treble. And he's undefeated. He just ran one race and then went to the Derby without much preparation and proof, but won it in track record(was broken by Workforce last year). I'm not one of those who think STS is overrated, but "a horse of a lifetime" is a little bit exaggerated, probably a horse of his generation/decade would be more suitable. Besides DB, don't forget Peintre Celebre.

[ASupremeOwl]

@debbider A long time from now. Clearly just another idiotic internet poster with no racing knowledge whatsoever. Who did Workforce beat in his Derby really? Rewilding would be the only horse of any decent calibre. The only horse still from that race to win a Gr1 after Epsom its possibly one of the weakest fields ever assembled in a Derby that I can remember. Sea The Stars saw off Fame And Glory, Rip Van Winkle. Mastercraftsman, Debussy all Gr1 winning colts after Epsom. Clueless you are

[ASupremeOwl]

@debbider Are you for real? How can a horse who won a GR1 every month for 6 months be classed as overrated? How many other thoroughbred racehorse have completed the Guineas/Derby/Arc treble? The answer is none. Do you not understand how hard it is to complete that treble? Overrated don't make Me laugh. I was lucky to see Dancing Brave growing up watching racing and I didnt think I'd see a better horse. Sea The Star is a once in a lifetime horse. You won't see that treble of races completed for..