Multi set to return at Newbury
Henry Cecil’s Multidimensional will limber up for the Emirates Airline Champion Stakes with an outing at Newbury on Saturday.
The Niarchos Family-owned colt was one of the key performers in Cecil’s return from the doldrums last season, winning three of his four starts.
They included the Group Two Prix Guillaume d’Ornano at Deauville on his final outing, while he did not look at all happy on the track at Goodwood when suffering his only defeat.
There had been high hopes for this season until he picked up a hairline pelvic fracture in April.
Cecil has entered Multidimensional in an intriguing John Smith´s Extra Cold Conditions Stakes over nine furlongs at the Berkshire track.
Alan Cooper, racing manager to the Niarchos family, said: “Multidimensional has been training well and all being well his objective is the Champion Stakes.
“Having been off the track since August 2006 we need to give him a run before going for a Group One, and Henry has entered him at Newbury on Saturday.”
Others who could take a drop down in class on Saturday include Mike De Kock’s Oracle West, who was second in the Dubai Sheema Classic, and Mick Channon’s top-notch filly Flashy Wings.
Meanwhile, Cecil and the Niarchos family’s other star, Oaks winner Light Shift, was again confirmed by Cooper for be on course for next month’s Prix de l’Opera.
