標題: O'Brien 只會派 Mount Nelson 出戰日蝕大賽 [打印本頁] 作者:
asiadragon 時間: 2/7/2008 11:44 AM 標題: O'Brien 只會派 Mount Nelson 出戰日蝕大賽
Mount Nelson will be Aidan O'Brien's only runner in Saturday's Coral-Eclipse at Sandown.
The in-form Ballydoyle handler has a choice of three for the Group One, but only the Queen Anne fifth will take his chance.
"We are looking at running only Mount Nelson in the Eclipse and Johnny Murtagh will ride him," said O'Brien.
"King Of Rome will probably go to Hamburg for the German Derby on Sunday.
"Plan ran well when fourth at the Curragh on Sunday and this weekend might come a bit too soon for him."
Henry Cecil hopes to be two-handed in the race with Phoenix Tower and Multidimensional.
He told the Racing Post: "They are second and third favourite in the betting, so they are entitled to take the chance.
"Phoenix Tower likes fast ground. For Multidimensional, I would like there to be no jar.
"As long as the ground is good, it should be fine."
Alan Cooper, racing manager for Multidimensional's owners, the Niarchos family, added: "At the moment we are giving it (the Eclipse) very serious consideration.
"Obviously there are just the two weeks since his run at Royal Ascot.
"But we will leave it up to Henry and a decision doesn't have to be made until Thursday morning."
The ground at Sandown is currently good to firm and clerk of the course Andrew Cooper is expecting broadly similar conditions for the big race.
"The forecast means it's hard to be too sure how much rain we're going to get ahead of the weekend," he said.
"We've been dry here for a while but might get some showers tonight and a few through to Thursday.
"At the moment we're good to firm after a drying day but we had a few good places earlier. If we can race on ground like that at the weekend, we'd be happy."
Sponsors Coral have cut Phoenix Tower from 4-1 to 100-30 joint-favouritism with Mount Nelson after taking plenty of money for the Cecil-trained former, including one "sizeable four-figure" bet.
"All the smart money today has been for Phoenix Tower and he is already a six-figure loser in our ante-post book," reported spokesman Simon Clare.作者:
asiadragon 時間: 2/7/2008 11:46 AM
