{"id":1063919,"date":"2026-07-02T14:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T14:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1063919\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T14:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T14:43:15","slug":"coral-eclipse-field-set-as-obrien-declares-three-runners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1063919\/","title":{"rendered":"Coral-Eclipse field set as O&#8217;Brien declares three runners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Aidan O\u2019Brien has declared Constitution River, Hawk Mountain and Flushing Meadows for Saturday\u2019s Coral-Eclipse at Sandown, with Causeway left out of the final field.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The seven-runner Group 1 now has a sharper Ballydoyle shape than the midweek picture suggested. French Derby winner Constitution River and Chantilly runner-up Hawk Mountain are both in, while Flushing Meadows gives O\u2019Brien a third Coolmore runner in a race he has dominated repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p>Owen Burrows relies on Gethin, back at Sandown after chasing home Ombudsman in the Brigadier Gerard, and Roger Varian sends Saddadd, who already owns smart course-and-distance form from the Gordon Richards Stakes.<\/p>\n<p>Sandown Clash Gains Final Shape<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Aidan O\u2019Brien will run both Constitution River and Hawk Mountain in the Coral-Eclipse on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Racing Post (@RacingPost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RacingPost\/status\/2072296185751077103\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Donnacha O\u2019Brien is represented by A Boy Named Susie, fourth behind Constitution River and Hawk Mountain in the Prix du Jockey Club, while Harry Charlton\u2019s King\u2019s Gambit completes the declared field.<\/p>\n<p>The key change is Causeway\u2019s absence. Earlier in the week, Ballydoyle still had several moving pieces around the Eclipse and German Derby, but the final declarations leave O\u2019Brien with a direct three-runner attack on Sandown\u2019s midsummer championship.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.sports.yahoo.com\/news\/constitution-river-hawk-mountain-head-093142347.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PA Media report carried by Yahoo Sports<\/a>, Flushing Meadows joins the two headline O\u2019Brien colts, with Causeway not declared.<\/p>\n<p>That sets up a clean generational test: Classic three-year-old form through Constitution River and Hawk Mountain against older, proven Sandown opposition in Gethin and Saddadd. For O\u2019Brien, it is also another chance to tighten his grip on a race that has become one of Ballydoyle\u2019s most reliable summer targets.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aidan O\u2019Brien has declared Constitution River, Hawk Mountain and Flushing Meadows for Saturday\u2019s Coral-Eclipse at Sandown, with Causeway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1063920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4107],"tags":[38666,291996,291090,288,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":["post-1063919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-aidan-obrien","tag-constitution-river","tag-coral-eclipse","tag-horse-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116850918030980888","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1063920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}