In 1969, his first season training, he saddled Wolver Hollow to win the important Gr 1 race and his subsequent winners were Wolver Hollow's son Wollow in 1976 and Gunner B in 1978.

The Warren Pace maestro has never made any secret of his high regard of the talented, but lightly raced, Phoenix Tower, who has won four of his six starts.

This year, he followed up a narrow defeat by Creachadoir in the Lockinge with a running on second to Duke Of Marmalade in the Prince Of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot.

The four-year-old Chester House colt has gone the right way since then and it is significant that stable jockey Ted Durcan chooses to partner him rather then the Hardwicke Stakes runner-up Multidimensional.

It was only in the closing stages that the latter surrendered his lead to Macarthur and Tom Queally could reap the rewards of the decision to bring him back to 10 furlongs. Rob Roy, Campanologist and Pipedreamer will all have their admirers but it is the Irish challenger Mount Nelson who could cause the Warren Place pair most trouble in their bold bid to give Cecil a notable Eclipse 1-2.

Michael Bell's consistent sprinter Hoh Mike could get back on the winning trail in the Gr 3 Lanson Champagne Sprint Stakes that opens the proceedings on Eclipse day.

Since he won this race 12 months ago, he has been plying his trade in top company and was most recently outpaced when fifth to the Spanish flyer Equiano in the Gr 1 King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot.

He looked a picture doing his customary solo spin up the Watered Gallop last Saturday morning and, as he clearly loves the stiff sign five furlongs at Sandown, should be backed to show his rivals a clean pair of heels.

Chris Wall's game nine-year-old warhorse Ace Of Hearts could give up-and-coming apprentice Jack Mitchell a valuable handicap win in the toteswinger Handicap.

Round your afternoon off on a high with Julia Feilden's King Columbo in the Sodexo Prestige Handicap. The progressive three year old nearly made a winning comeback just down the road at Kempton, where he was caught close home by Naughty Frida. That run and subsequent workouts on Racecourse Side have brought him to the boil and I just give him the edge over Suzi's Decision and Rochefort.

Tomorrow, Dave Simcock's Bushman will be bidding to make an upwardly mobile career move in the Listed William Ewart Properties Gala Stakes at Sandown.

Originally with Godolphin, Simcock has got him going the right way and he underlined the point with wins in his last two starts.

Following a fluent confidence booster at Windsor, he put in a smooth display to beat Little White Lie by four-and-a-half-lengths on soft ground on the Surrey course.

An intended Royal Ascot run was shelved at the eleventh hour because connections did not want to risk him on unsuitably fast ground. The forecast rain should ensure he gets the good going he prefers and he can use this race as a springboard to greater heights.