Graham Buddry recalls the legend who launched racing’s generation game

Nijinsky at Newmarket in 1970

The Eclipse Stakes at Sandown Park is the first big clash of the generations, when the Classic crop of three-year-olds meet the older horses for the first time.
Along with Ascot’s King George, the Eclipse constitutes one of the biggest races of the summer season, but who was Eclipse the horse?
Most racing folk know he is one of the all-time greats and that almost every thoroughbred can trace ancestry back to him. Yet his race form remains a mystery to most with the ex...