Aidan O'Brien has found a new ‘iron horse’ in Paddington who saw off the challenge of Emily Upjohn to land the Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown.
The Ballydoyle maestro claimed his seventh victory in the battle of the generations 23 years after Giant’s Causeway, the original ‘Iron Horse’, provided his first. Giant’s Causeway cut a swathe through the major 1m and 1m2f races during the summer of 2000 winning five Group 1 races in a row.
Paddington, winner of the Irish 2,000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes, bagged his third after successfully graduating to the new 1m2f trip. His jockey Ryan Moore said: “Emily Upjohn came to him and he found plenty. He was always doing enough.
