Calyx Camp Eyeing Pavilion Return

[Wandering Eyes]

Trainer John Gosden is eyeing the G3 Pavilion S. at Ascot as a likely comeback target for the long-absent ‘TDN Rising Star’ Calyx (GB) (Kingman {GB}). The Kingman colt looked every inch a future superstar when winning the G2 Coventry S. at Royal Ascot last June, but missed the rest of the season through injury. Gosden reports Calyx in rude health ahead of his return to action, but feels it would be unfair to ask his charge to run in the G1 QIPCO 2000 Guineas first time out on May 4 and views the six-furlong Pavilion S. on May 1 as a more suitable starting point.

“He’s in good form and is getting close. I don’t think you’d bring him straight to a Guineas, but I’m very happy with him and he’s probably about two weeks off a race now,” said Gosden. “I think he’ll be put in both the [G1] Commonwealth Cup and the [G1] St James’s Palace [at Royal Ascot]. We’ll discuss it with the owner [Khalid Abdullah] and everybody as to which way to go.

“You might want to start him out over a little shorter. He’s been off a very long time since sustaining an injury last July, so to that extent it would make an awful lot of sense to start over the six at Ascot in the Pavilion S.”

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