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3.0 The Victoria Handicap for three-year-olds and upwards, over one mile five and a half furlongs

3.40 The Eclipse Stakes for three-year-olds and four-year-olds over one mile and a quarter

For the first time BBC Outside broadcast cameras televise this famous race, first run in 1886 and named after the great eighteenth-century horse 'Eclipse', who ran twenty-six times and was unbeaten.
Clive Graham identifies the runners and riders in the Parade Ring before each race.

Contributors

Commentator:
Peter O'Sullevan
Parade Ring commentator:
Clive Graham
Presented for television by:
Harry Middleton

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