Abbey on comeback trail Last year's champion juvenile St Nicholas Abbey is edging closer to his eagerly-anticipated comeback. Aidan O'Brien's son of Montjeu originally looked to have disappointed by finishing only sixth in the 2000 Guineas but subsequent events suggest he faced a fairly stiff task. The winner, Makfi, landed the Prix Jacques le Marois on Sunday, runner-up Dick Turpin has won the Prix Jean Prat and third home Canford Cliffs has won the Irish Guineas, St James's Palace and Sussex Stakes. "He's been cantering for a couple of weeks now, he's started back and is working well," O'Brien told At The Races. "We haven't picked a race for him yet, but he is back in work now and in the next week or two we'll be looking for a race for him and see where we are going to start him back. "He was always a horse who was very natural and didn't take a lot of work, so in around about a month or six weeks he might be running. "Until his work steps up to top gear we won't know, but he is a horse that never took a lot of work."
