Long wait: Enable and Magical out to overturn fillies' hoodoo in Coral-Eclipse

The betting would suggest Saturday's Coral-Eclipse is between Enable and Magical, but no filly has triumphed in the Sandown Group 1 since Kooyonga in 1992.

Since then 11 have tried and, despite the likes of Ouija Board, Dar Re Mi, Snow Fairy and The Fugue trying, the closest any have got was third, courtesy of Bosra Sham in 1997 and Shiva in 2000.

Fillies in the Eclipse since 1992

1995 Tryphosa (8th of 8) 16-1
1997 Bosra Sham (3rd of 5) 4-7
2000 Shiva (3rd)
2003 Islington (6th)
2006 Ouija Board (5th), Royal Alchemist (7th)
2010 Dar Re Mi (4th)
2011 Snow Fairy (4th)
2013 The Fugue (7th)
2014 The Fugue (6th)
2018 Happily (5th)

It was dubbed 'Bosra Shambles' and Kieren Fallon has said he still thinks about Bosra Sham's defeat in 1997, when he found himself pinned on the rail on the 4-7 shot. Bosra Sham looked to have the leading pair in her sights, but when the gap opened it proved too late.

Ouija Board won the Prince of Wales's Stakes and Nassau in 2006, but sandwiched between those two wins she was a disappointing fifth in the Eclipse. Dar Re Mi was never seen after her fourth in the 2010 race, while classy fillies Snow Fairy and The Fugue were also beaten.

From 1992 there have been 204 runners in the Eclipse and only 11 of them have been fillies – just five per cent of the field – with just two of the 11 runners aged three.

Historically, three-year-old colts who perform well in the Eclipse ran in the Derby or the French Derby, the first weekend of June, leaving them a four-week gap to prepare for the race. But for fillies, while the Oaks is the same distance away, the French Oaks, also run over a mile and a quarter, is two weeks later meaning a quicker turnaround.

Ouija Board, Dar Re Mi, Snow Fairy and The Fugue, were perhaps four of the best fillies of the century, and yet all ran poorly at Sandown. But if one filly can prove her doubters wrong it is surely Enable, who on her last run became the first horse to win the Arc and Breeders' Cup Turf in the same season when she triumphed at Churchill Downs in November.

At Sandown she will be bidding to end a 27-year fallow period for her sex as she builds up to to an attempt for an unprecedented Arc hat-trick.

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