Jim Goldie starts evergreen Euchen Glen off on road to the Eclipse

SBK Conditions Stakes | 4yo+ | 1m4f | Sky

Remarkable veteran Euchen Glen launches his season on Sunday with a crack at the Coral-Eclipse Stakes in his sights.

The nine-year-old was better than ever in 2021, when he won a Group 3 event and Listed event over 1m2f at Sandown.

And Jim Goldie is eyeing the summer Group 1 highlight over the same course and distance for a gelding who reappears at Doncaster over 1m4f.

"He's a year older but he's in good form and I don't know if he's any less a horse than last year," the trainer said.

"We've got a notion of going for the Eclipse. His Sandown form is very good and it's the right time of year.

Jim Goldie: 'We've got a notion of going for the Eclipse. His Sandown form is very good and it's the right time of year'Credit: John Grossick (racingpost.com/photos)

"Realistically, we're probably looking at something like fourth or fifth, but you never know."

Euchen Glen has been tried over a range of distances in his 44-race career and won over 2m in the Shergar Cup at Ascot in 2017.

But Goldie said: "We're probably going to keep him to a mile and two or a mile and a half rather than go to staying trips.

"Paul Mulrennan has ridden him most of his career and if you ask him what's his best trip, he doesn't know.

"His best runs are when he's dropped in and put to sleep and comes with a rattle – that relies on the other horses going a good gallop, so it's not going to work all the time."

Euchen Glen faces six rivals on Sunday, including one-time Derby hope Law Of The Sea, who has not run since finishing fifth in the Queen's Vase at Royal Ascot last June.

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