Cosmic Year pencilled in for Goodwood outing
Trainer Harry Charlton will now step him back up to a mile on the Sussex Downs in the Group Three Bonhams Thoroughbred Stakes in preference to the seven-furlong HKJC World Pool Lennox Stakes.
Charlton said: 'He didn't run his race obviously (at Deauville) and we'll hope for a better performance next time.
'(He came back) all good, no problems, all good.
'It probably won't be the Lennox Stakes and will likely be the Thoroughbred Stakes at Goodwood, which is a Group Three over eight furlongs.
'The City of York Stakes is on the cards but it is all dependent on his next run.'
Charlton will bide his time with the fellow Juddmonte-owned Skimmer as he waits for cut in the ground.
The three-year-old won on his racecourse debut at Leicester before coming home a cosy winner of a Kempton novice.
The Great Voltigeur Stakes at York remains on the radar but he will only take up that route if the going eases between now and then.
Charlton said: 'We wouldn't go up there if the ground was like it is now.
'I think he's a big horse and he's probably not one for firm ground, so we'll just keep an eye on the weather but we obviously know it's not long until September and surely the weather will relent at some point.
'He's a nice, big horse and a bit like his brother Okeechobee, he's coming into his own middle of his three-year-old career into his four-year-old career as it were.'
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