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<\/p>\nA mouthwatering Qipco Champion Stakes in the offing with Ombudsman, Calandagan and Delacroix all confirmed for Saturday\u2019s Ascot highlight, live on Sky Sports Racing.<\/p>\n
Prince of Wales’s Stakes and Juddmonte International winner Ombudsman has emerged as a real top-notcher this season for John and Thady Gosden.<\/p>\n
However, he was denied what would have been a hat-trick of Group One wins by Aidan O’Brien’s Delacroix in a thrilling Coral-Eclipse.<\/p>\n
Ombudsman gained revenge at York but Delacroix has since won the Irish Champion Stakes in good style.<\/p>\n
They are likely to be joined by King George hero Calandagan for Francis-Henri Graffard, who has won big races all over Europe this season including the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe with Daryz.<\/p>\n
Last year’s Irish Champion Stakes victor Economics, who has been absent for exactly a year, is also on course to return.<\/p>\n
He has caused William Haggas plenty of headaches this season since missing his intended comeback at Royal Ascot but came through a recent racecourse gallop at Newmarket with flying colours.<\/p>\n
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\n Delacroix defeated Ombudsman in the Eclipse<\/p>\n
Ralph Beckett’s Dante and Great Voltigeur winner Pride Of Arras also cannot be dismissed having bounced back to form at York following a gelding operation after disappointing in two Classics.<\/p>\n
Ed Walker’s Almaqam beat Ombudsman earlier in the season and is in the mix, along with Andrew Balding’s Almeric, who looked a smart prospect when winning at Ayr on his return from an absence. Balding also confirmed Fox Legacy.<\/p>\n
O’Brien could also run Los Angeles, The Lion In Winter, Mount Kilimanjaro and Swagman.<\/p>\n
There were two supplementary entries at a cost of \u00a375,000 apiece as Andre Fabre added the Prix Dollar winner First Look, while the Gosdens supplemented Devil’s Advocate, who is likely to adopt a pacemaking role for Ombudsman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mouthwatering Qipco Champion Stakes in the offing with Ombudsman, Calandagan and Delacroix all confirmed for Saturday\u2019s Ascot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-197409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}