DE SOUSA’S SO EMINENT

SILVESTRE DE SOUSA will partner Eminent for the first time in the CoralEclipse on Saturday.

Reigning champion jockey Jim Crowley has ridden the Frankel colt on each of his four starts to date, but connections have decided to replace him with De Sousa.

Trainer Martyn Meade said: ”We don’t know for sure whether Jim would be available as obviously he is committed to riding for Sheikh Hamdan and we wanted to have some certainty. We decided that it’s the way to go.”