IT feels like a blink of an eye since Constitution Hill blew out at the Punchestown festival, and when the National Hunt season came to a close. Guineas, Derbies and Royal Ascot were coming into focus but, before I seemed to realise it, Tipperary won the hurling, Aidan O’Brien is looking for a 12th Group 1 of the season, the football ends tomorrow, with Sam in the Kingdom before Galway starts on Monday! They say time flies and all that, but this summer just seems to be disappearing.
We got a clash of the generations at 10 furlongs in the Eclipse when Delacroix ran down Ombudsman in the dying strides to strike the first blow for the three-year-olds, but unfortunately, there is not one three-year-old among the field for the King George this afternoon at Ascot.
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