Timepiece, ante-post favourite for the Investec Oaks, makes her seasonal debut in the Blue Square Feilden Stakes at Newmarket on Wednesday.
Although the half-sister to Passage Of Time also holds an entry in the StanJames.com 1000 Guineas, trainer Henry Cecil feels the daughter of Zamindar will need further than a mile. All her three races as a two-year-old came over that trip and she ended her juvenile campaign with victory in the Listed Montrose Stakes.
"Timepiece may need further than a mile but Newmarket will tell us more. She should run well and I do not want to run her at a shorter distance first time out," Cecil told www.henrycecil.com.
A competitive field of nine has been declared for the Listed contest over nine furlongs.
They include Godolphin's Black Snowflake, Mahmoud Al Zarooni's first runner in Britain, the John Gosden-trained Prizefighting, John Dunlop's Mufarrh and Mark Johnston's Marie De Medici.
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