One of the more unusual statistics about the Coral-Eclipse Stakes is that Henry Cecil has not won this Group One race for over 30 years.

Cecil won the race for the third time with Gunner B in 1978, a year when he won one of his 10 trainers’ championships, and has had some near-misses since. The most painful was 1997 when Bosra Sham was a beaten odds-on favourite in a five-runner field. Kieren Fallon would have any number of entries for a video of My 10 greatest races but that will never be one of them.      

To read the full blog: http://blogs.bettor.com/Twice-Over-could-be-enough-for-Henry-Cecil-in-Eclipse-a14683