Black Minnaloushe aims to follow in some distinguished hoofprints next Saturday. The Aidan O'Brien-trained St James's Palace Stakes winner bids to emulate former stable-companion Giant's Causeway - the iron horse - by following up just a fortnight later in the Coral Eurobet-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown.
But opposition is sure to be tough in this £325,000 event, which marks the first clash of the season between the best three-year-olds and the older horses over middle-distances. Godolphin have landed this Group One prize with Halling (twice) and Daylami in recent years and have several possibilities, including last year's runner-up Sakhee and recent Prince Of Wales's Stakes winner Fantastic Light.
Filed by Sinéad Kissane
