Cecil's Eclipse target.CLASSY colt Twice Over has a chance this Saturday to erase the memories of Phoenix Tower's painful Coral-Eclipse defeat 12 months ago. Representing the same trainer-owner team of Henry Cecil and Khalid Abdullah, Twice Over has followed exactly the same path as his former stablemate Noun 1. stablemate - a horse stabled with another or one of several horses owned by the same person stable companion Equus caballus, horse - solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times this season. The pair both started off in the Earl Of Sefton and each went close in the Lockinge and Prince Of Wales's Stakes. Phoenix Tower ended up beaten just a short-head by Mount Nelson in the Eclipse but that looked a weaker renewal without the likes of Sea The Stars and Conduit to contend with. The owner's racing manager Teddy Grimthorpe was not making excuses for Twice Over for his run at Royal Ascot when in front at the two-pole before eventually finishing fourth to Vision D'Etat. "I don't think he's been unlucky," Grimthorpe said. "Last time he looked like he'd done enough to win the Prince Of Wales's and then in the last five strides he is passed by three others and finishes fourth. "There was nothing unlucky about it, he ran a super race." "Obviously we are looking at the Eclipse. He's been in very good nick and came out of Ascot really well but will have to step up again to win." Cecil, meanwhile, has Apple Charlotte is limbering up to take on some smart US fillies in Sunday's American Oaks at Hollywood Park. After winning her first three starts, the daughter of Royal Applause lost little in a short-head defeat to Splashdown splash·down n. The landing of a spacecraft or missile in water. splashdown Noun the landing of a spacecraft on water at the end of a flight Verb splash down in the Lord Weinstock Memorial Stakes at Newbury when conceding 3lbs to her rival. Many of her potential opponents are from the California area while Sands Point Stakes winner Gozzip Girl is set to make the trip from New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . Joining the field are Irish 1000 Guineas fourth Rare Ransom, trained by frequent American visitor Dermot Weld, and New Zealand contender Puttanesca. Apple Charlotte is owned by De La Warr De La Warr , Baron Title of Thomas West. 1577-1618. English-born American colonial administrator chosen as the first governor of the Virginia Company colony. Racing, whose manager Ed Sackville said: "She's out there now and the plan is for Mike Smith to ride her." CAPTION(S): ECLIPSE DATE: Trainer Henry Cecil |
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