SILVESTRE de Sousa rides Eminent for Martyn Meade for the first time in the Coral-Eclipse today. Jim Crowley has ridden Eminent in all four of his races to date, one last year and three this year, the Craven, the Guineas and the Derby, but he is riding Ulysses today for Sir Michael Stoute.

It looks like de Sousa had been booked for Eminent before it was confirmed publicly that Crowley would ride Ulysses, but Jim Crowley rode Ulysses for the first time in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot and, who knows, he may have chosen to ride the Flaxman Stables’ colt anyway.