Multi reasons to support Cecil
The five-year-old has never been the easiest to handle as he has had problems, but the decision to keep him in training by the Niarchos family speaks volumes and has in the main been rewarded this season.
A cracking front-running effort over a mile and half in the Hardwicke at Royal Ascot just saw him touched off by Macarthur, while he was a bit free in front dropped back in trip in the Coral-Eclipse, in which the ground was also too fast.
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