Simon Holt previews the action on the opening day of the Welcome To Yorkshire Ebor Festival at York.
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This season, three-year-olds have tended to do best in the so-called 'clashes of the generations' but ULYSSES successful defied weight-for-age in the Coral-Eclipse and can do so again in Wednesday's intriguing Group One Juddmonte International at York.
Sir Michael Stoute's four-year-old recorded a narrow victory over Barney Roy at Sandown (Decorated Knight sixth) in June when conceding the runner-up 10lb but, just over six weeks on, the scale now allows only a 7lb allowance to the runner-up.
Since the Eclipse, Ulysses has run a mighty race to chase home Enable in the King George at Ascot (My Dream Boat seventh), probably facing an impossible task trying to give a stone in age and sex allowances to the dual Oaks winner.
One suspects that was the hottest race of the season so far with Idaho, previously successful at Royal Ascot, and the multiple Group One winner Highland Reel finishing third and fourth respectively.
As at Sandown, Ulysses travelled really well in the hands of Jim Crowley and his high cruising speed may be slightly better suited to this shorter trip. Providing he runs to the same level here, and has fully recovered from what could have been a hard race, he looks the one to be on.