'I was so lucky to get the ride, I was in my 50s for God's sake!' - the day Giant's Causeway won a classic Coral-Eclipse

The word 'monster' is used liberally these days but it feels wholly appropriate it is the one George Duffield chooses when he is asked to relive the 2000 Coral-Eclipse.

Duffield is referring to Giant's Causeway, the horse on whom he won arguably the greatest running of the Sandown Group 1 in the modern era.

Saturday's renewal is the 50th running of the race under the sponsorship of bookmakers Coral. The Coral-Eclipse began with a bang when Henry Cecil's 2,000 Guineas winner Wollow triumphed in 1976, and most recently it was won by another superstar in City Of Troy.