Workforce, So You Think likely to clash in Eclipse

Aidan O'Brien is responsible for four of the eight runners confirmed at the

six-day stage for Saturday's Eclipse S. (Eng-G1), run over one mile and two

furlongs at Sandown.

SO YOU THINK (High Chaparral [Ire]) heads the team for the Irish handler who

won his sixth successive Irish Derby (Ire-G1) on Sunday when Treasure Beach

(Galileo [Ire]) led home a one-two-three for Ballydoyle. So You Think, a

multiple Group 1 winner in Australia, was sent off at long odds-on for the

Prince of Wales's S. (Eng-G1) at Royal Ascot after having won his first two

starts in Ireland in impressive style. He suffered a narrow defeat at the hands

of Rewilding (Tiger Hill) when ridden by Ryan Moore, but the five-year-old is

likely to need a new pilot this weekend, with the English champion set to ride

Epsom Derby (Eng-G1) and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (Fr-G1) hero WORKFORCE (GB)

(King's Best) for his boss, Sir Michael Stoute.

"We're looking at the Eclipse, but we'll see how he is at the start of the

week and we'll sit down and chat about it," O'Brien said. "Joseph (O'Brien)

rides him out every day, Seamie (Heffernan) rides him in all his work, and

Seamie rode him the day he won the first time at The Curragh. I don't think

there's any scarcity of riders, so we'll decide if he's going to run or not

first and then we can talk about who is going to ride him.We're delighted with

him and everything has been good since Ascot."

So You Think is joined by stablemates CAPE BLANCO (Galileo [Ire]), JAN

VERMEER (Montjeu [Ire]) -- who acted as a pacemaker for So You Think at Royal

Ascot -- and ALEXANDER POPE (Danehill Dancer), who is the only three-year-old in

the field.

Workforce is an intended runner and it will be the 2010 Derby and Arc

winner's second start of the season having made a successful reappearance over

course and distance in the May 26 Brigadier Gerard S. (Eng-G2). CONFRONT (Nayef)

could perform a pace-making role for Sir Michael Stoute's four-year-old.

The confirmations are completed by last year's runner-up SRI PUTRA (Oasis

Dream [GB]) and SNOW FAIRY (Intikhab), who could be re-routed to Sandown having

been forced to miss her intended reappearance in the Pretty Polly S. (Ire-G1) on

Saturday when the ground went against her. The trainer will not make a final

decision on her participation until later in the week, however.

"Nothing is definite with a horse who has gone to Ireland and come back in

the space of 36 hours," Ed Dunlop said. She seems fine and has started back

cantering. She lost quite a bit of weight because of the journey, but she is

putting it back on rapidly. I have also entered her in the Lancashire Oaks

(Eng-G2) at Haydock, just in case something weird happened with the weather, so

we'll see. I think she'll run somewhere this weekend as long as I'm happy with

her as, after that, we are going to get a bit lost with her."

The Lancashire Oaks is contested over one mile and three furlongs. Aside from

Snow Fairy, Royal Ascot winners BANIMPIRE (Holy Roman Emperor) and FOX HUNT (Dubawi)

are among the 14 entries for the Group 2 race.