Trainer Aidan O’Brien reveals testing ground gave connections plenty of anxiety before the race
City Of Troy defied the testing ground at Sandown to produce a hard-fought victory in the Coral-Eclipse.
“He was pitched into unknown territory today and I remember before the Dewhurst we were very worried and took the chance but to walk it today, it was deeper, way deeper. “He won quite well in the end. Dylan said coming in that he had him and then he went again. He said he thought he had him, but he was always maintaining.”
Moore admitted he had expected the win to be more convincing and pointed to the going to echo O’Brien’s assessment of the race.
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