Maximilian set for return in coming weeks
Maximilian won't be at the Cheltenham Festival.
Maximilian could finally return to action, for the first time since April 2023, in the late December or the new year.
The eight-year-old last chased home Apple Away in the Grade One Sefton Novices’ Hurdle, before that he had won the River Don at Doncaster beating Cheltenham star Stay Away Fay.
He was forced to miss the whole 2023/24 campaign but is now back in full training.
“There’s no set timeline at the moment, but he’s in fast work now,” said trainer Donald McCain.
“I’d love to get him away somewhere before we think about going racing, but he’s coming along fine.
“We brought him back in later than the others as he needs cut in the ground anyway, so he wouldn’t have been running in the autumn.
“It will possibly be just after Christmas or just into the new year when he’ll be racing, I would say. He’ll be going chasing as time is getting on now.
“He only ever does what he has to do at home but he looks great and seems fine, so all is good. He’s just a very straightforward, no frills horse at home.”
