Frankel could make his first public reappearance in a racecourse gallop at Newbury next month.
Trainer Henry Cecil is to ask officials at the Berkshire track for permission to give his stable superstar a spin at their two-day meeting on April 20 and 21.
Cecil has already pencilled in the Lockinge Stakes there on May 19 as the first run of the season for Khalid Abdullah’s unbeaten four-year-old.
“I shall ask permission to work him, probably at Newbury at the spring meeting,” Cecil told Sky Sports News.
“Take him down there for the night. It will do him good, the change and everything, then have a racecourse gallop like a very easy race to give him an excuse to have a quiet week after that.
“He has wintered very well. He’s grown a bit and he’s strengthened a lot.
“He seems to have grown up mentally which will help me a lot more. Last year he was quite tricky. Early on if he had gone on pulling like he was he was going to burn himself out.
“It’s important he has another good season, but things just have to go right. They are so fragile, horses. It is important, as racing like any other sport, needs stars.”
