THE Coral-Eclipse wasn’t always hyphenated. Actually, it used to be one word. CoralEclipse.

The sponsor and the race name used to be even more inextricably linked than they are now, with the hyphen first appearing as the demarcation between sponsor name and race title in 1997, that dramatic renewal in which Pilsudski got home by just over a length from Benny The Dip, with the unlucky Bosra Sham back in third, and it has been there since.