City Of Troy follows up Derby win by going deep for battling victory in Eclipse

City Of Troy follows up Derby win by going deep for battling victory in Eclipse

City Of Troy holds off spirited challenge of Al Riffa ‘He’s a fast-ground mover so he won despite the ground’

City Of Troy followed up his impressive success in the Derby with a win that showed a fresh side to his character in the Eclipse Stakes on Saturday, as he dug deep on rain-softened to fight off a spirited challenge from Al Riffa by a length, with Ghostwriter, who finished ahead of City Of Troy in the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket, another length away in third.

It was not quite the dominant performance that the Sandown crowd might have expected to see from a 1-4 favourite, but Aidan O’Brien, the colt’s trainer, suggested afterwards that it had been a late call to let him take his chance at all the ground.

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