Cecil set to have no Guineas runners Henry Cecil today revealed that Quick To Please is 'more unlikely than likely' to run in next Sunday`s Sagitta 1000 Guineas. He is looking ahead to summer targets for the filly, whose absence would leave the trainer without a runner in the Newmarket Classic which he has won six times. Cecil stressed that he is happy with the progress of the three-year-old, a general 16-1 chance for the Guineas after an impressive win in a Doncaster maiden on her only start to date. But he believes problems early in her preparation mean she may not be ready for a bid to emulate Bosra Sham, Fairy Footsteps, One in A Million, Oh So Sharp, Sleepytime and Wince next Sunday. 'She worked very nicely on Saturday, we will leave her in the race and she will work on Wednesday but I would say it is more unlikely than likely that she will run,' Cecil said. 'She was off coughing and then pulled muscles in her back and she is about two weeks behind my other horses. 'It could be pushing her and I would say she is probably doubtful. 'I have been very pleased with her and she has done everything right but if you run her in a Group One and she is a bit short of work she will feel it in the last furlong and that will do nobody any good. 'She is coming on very well but we don`t want to push her too hard. 'We might wait for a Listed race at Lingfield then go for the Irish Guineas or the Coronation Stakes.' Cecil has no entry in the 2000 Guineas, after a frustratingly wet spring which has hindered the preparation of his string and prevented his using Newmarket`s grass gallops for much of the time. 'The weather has been very bad and it has been very difficult,' he said. 'We went on the gallops yesterday but we went back on the all-weather for second lot.' But Cecil is renowned for his patience and he refuses to rush his horses. 'If you push them now there will be nothing left for the rest of the year,' he said. And he still expects to have arounda dozen horses in action at the three-day Guineas meeting, with Wellbeing and Sandmason both possibles for Friday`s Group Two Jockey Club Stakes. 'I hope to have 12-odd runners,' the trainer said. 'I have got to run Sandmason and Wellbeing somewhere so they might both run, although Sandmason wouldn`t go if it got too soft. Wellbeing is coming along nicely.' 'Curtain Time may go for the mile-and-a-half race and Fully Invested will be in the Pretty Polly.'
