At Royal Ascot Mawatheeq will now not feature on Saturday as trainer Marcus Tregoning confirmed that he does not feel he is ready after injury. The five year old has endured a frustrating year following an injury which forced him out of the Dubai World Cup before he was well off the pace in the Prince Of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot his only appearance of 2010. Tregoning then withdrew Mawatheeq from the Coral Eclipse at Sandown when he failed to enter the stalls and it was then decided that he should not feature in the summer showpiece at Ascot next weekend."We were going to work him somewhere this weekend but we decided against it and that means he will miss the King George," said Tregoning."We've just decided to give him a bit more time as we don't feel he's going to be ready for Ascot."We haven't decided where we're going with him yet but we just feel he wants a bit more time after the injury problem he had in the spring."Meanwhile jockey Olivier Peslier was reportedly delighted after partnering Harbinger in a piece of work at Newmarket on Saturday.Harry Herbert, racing manager for owners Highclere Thoroughbred Racing, said: "He worked extremely well and he quickened clear and Peslier was all smiles afterwards. He was very excited about the horse."There's a week to go so hopefully he'll come out of the work all right and he'll be going into the race in tip-top form. He's definitely improving, I think, which is the exciting thing so let battle commence."
