Workforce delights in Newmarket work

Workforce showed his well-being ahead of the Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown next Saturday with a pleasing spin on the gallops at Newmarket.

Last year’s Investec Derby and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe hero, trained by Michael Stoute, is sticking to 10 furlongs after winning the Brigadier Gerard Stakes over the course and distance last month.

“He worked nicely this morning at Newmarket. Everyone seemed very pleased. He picked up his lead horse nicely,” Teddy Grimthorpe, racing manager to owner Khalid Abdullah, told At The Races.

“We’re happy with him and he’s heading to Sandown.

“He put in a pretty smart performance in the Brigadier Gerard. He’s got a good turn of foot, so I don’t see why the trip should worry him.

“Twice Over probably won’t run, Confront could go as a pacemaker.”

In what promises to be a mouthwatering Eclipse, Workforce is set to clash with ex-Aussie superstar So You Think and possibly Ed Dunlop’s filly Snow Fairy.