Multi bidding to eclipse rivals

Multidimensional steps back up to the highest level in the Coral-Eclipse tomorrow after an encouraging performance at Royal Ascot.

Henry Cecil’s five-year-old was just touched off by Macarthur in the Hardwicke Stakes after a couple of disappointing runs earlier in the season.

The Niarchos family-owned entire has always been held in high regard at Cecil’s Warren Place yard and connections are not worried about reverting to 10 furlongs.

“His earlier races this season did not go according to plan but in the Hardwicke things went very well for him, he almost won,” said Alan Cooper, racing manager to the Niarchos Family.

“Tomorrow we are dropping back in distance but if it is a true run race, he will be very competitive. He enjoys a good, strong gallop which is what we had at Ascot and if we get a true run race, he should be thereabouts.

“It just didn’t pan out earlier in the season and he came back with a bump on his shin after the Coronation Cup but at Ascot he showed his true form that reflected his homework.

“It’s an open Group One but it’s still very competitive with Maraahel, Mount Nelson, Phoenix Tower and Pipedreamer so even though it is open, it is very competitive.”