'I'd like to see him win a Group 1 by the end of the season' - Brian Meehan eyeing Lennox for Isaac Shelby
Brian Meehan is hoping the World Pool Lennox Stakes on the opening day of Glorious Goodwood can act as a stepping stone back to Group 1 company for his star miler Isaac Shelby.
The trainer believes a return to the seven furlongs over which he won the Greenham Stakes in April will be crucial for the colt, who was beaten just a short neck in the French 2,000 Guineas before finishing fourth in the St James's Palace Stakes, both over a mile.
"He’s likely to go to the Lennox next week," Meehan said of the 8-1 shot. "We feel he was a little more fluent in the Greenham so we just want to go back to what we know works and try to win him a race.
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