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Coral Eclipse tips and predictions: City Of Troy the choice
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The initial weekend in July brings the first big clash between the star older horses and the best three-year-olds in the Eclipse at Sandown. This is always one of the season’s feature races.
Run over the stiff mile and a quarter up the Surrey course’s famous hill, the Eclipse has been dominated by the Classic generation in recent years, with six of the past 10 winners having been three-year-olds, including the previous three in a row.
A field of eight has been declared for Saturday’s big race and our expert has picked out a pair to follow.
Coral Eclipse tips, Sandown, Saturday, 3.35pm
- Selection: City of Troy @ 1/3 with BoyleSports
- Next best: Jayarebe @ 14/1 with BoyleSports
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Coral Eclipse odds
- City of Troy @ 1/3 with BoyleSports
- Dancing Gemini @ 6/1 with BoyleSports
- Ghostwriter @ 6/1 with BoyleSports
- Jayarebe @ 14/1 with BoyleSports
- Al Riffa @ 16/1 with BoyleSports
- See The Fire @ 50/1 with BoyleSports
- Stay Alert @ 66/1 with BoyleSports
- Hans Andersen @ 80/1 with BoyleSports
Hard to get away from outstanding Derby winner Troy
This year’s Eclipse is dominated by one horse and that is Derby winner CITY OF TROY, who bounced back from his flop in the 2,000 Guineas when looking better than ever at Epsom last month.
The Aidan O’Brien-trained son of Triple Crown winner Justify was dominant in that Classic when beating the subsequent Irish Derby first and third, and could not have been any more impressive. He won the race with a smart turn of foot, in the manner of a speed horse, so dropping in trip will suit.
City Of Troy had been last season’s outstanding juvenile, with his most impressive performance a wide-margin victory in the Dewhurst at Newmarket, and he showed his disappointing run in the 2,000 Guineas on his seasonal reappearance at that track was not his true running at Epsom.
This race has cut up badly, with several of his main dangers including White Birch and Luxembourg not declared, and it is difficult to see why he will not follow up his Derby success. The only slight concern would be that he bombed so badly in the 2,000 Guineas, but that was just a blip.
O’Brien and jockey Ryan Moore had a great Royal Ascot – and City Of Troy looks like a banker to give them another Group 1 success this summer.
Selection: City of Troy @ 1/3 with BoyleSports
Jump in for Jayarebe at a bigger price
If City Of Troy does fluff his lines, the Eclipse will be wide open as there is not an outstanding performer among the remainder of the field. Ghostwriter and Dancing Gemini are rated the biggest dangers by the market, but JAYAREBE appears to have been underestimated and is a solid alternative.
The Brian Meehan-trained three-year-old was an impressive winner of the Feilden Stakes on his seasonal reappearance at Newmarket and he put a below-par third in the Dee Stakes at Chester next time firmly behind him when running away with the Hampton Court at Royal Ascot last month.
There was a lot of talk about the runner-up King’s Gambit being unlucky, but Jayarebe was not stopping from a prominent position and kept on strongly after setting some solid early fractions.
That was the performance of an improving three-year-old colt and the time stacks up well for the grade. That effort also came over a stiff 1m 2f, like he will encounter here.
Jayarebe is sure to be on the pace as he often races prominently and those tactics tend to be suited to Sandown. So if there is to be an upset, he could just be the one to provide it.
Selection: Jayarebe @ 14/1 with BoyleSports
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