Margarson Mulling Swift Mick Return

Young Mick could make a quick reappearance at Newmarket on Friday following his belated seasonal debut at Ascot.

Should the five-year-old please his trainer George Margarson in a workout on Wednesday morning, he is likely to be declared for the Newmarket Equine Security Godolphin Stakes as long as the ground is suitable.

'I've ridden him out for a canter myself this morning and he's fine,' said Margarson of Young Mick, who won 10 races in 2006 from a claimer to handicaps to a Group Three.

'There's a 50-50 chance he might run again on Friday if the ground went right for him.

'I want to run him in the St Simon Stakes later this month but Newbury can get very soft.

'I never ran him on soft ground last year and it would be pointless to go there on going he didn't like.

'If it came up good to firm at Newmarket there'd be every chance he'd have a crack at it. He had a good blow at Ascot and I know he'll come on a ton for that run.

'On decent ground I can see him running a big race at Newmarket. He took three races in nine days last year and it didn't bother him.

'If he works as well on Wednesday as he always does there's a good chance he'll go to Newmarket as long as the ground is good or good to firm. He wouldn't run on the soft side of good.

'I walked the track on Sunday and it was good and there's no rain forecast.

'It's only on the doorstep so if the ground went the wrong way I wouldn't run him.'

Margarson admitted he was disappointed with Young Mick finishing last in the Cumberland Lodge Stakes on Sunday even though it had been his first race since he lifted that Group Three prize 12 months earlier.

'I was a little bit disappointed with him, but in hindsight I probably should not have run him on that ground. He doesn't like it,' the Newmarket trainer continued.

'I was so keen to get him back on the track, but I was disappointed how he tired so quickly.

'Aidan O'Brien's team set up a ferocious pace which, on his first run of the year, told on him in the last furlong and a half.

'He had been working well but probably wasn't fit enough for the way that race went.

'He'd had 18 runs going into that race last year. To emulate that at home was difficult. He got very tired and George (Baker) looked after him.'

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