David O’Meara plots Glorious Goodwood course for Lord Glitters and Suedois
The Group 1 Sussex Stakes and Group 2 Lennox Stakes are options for the high-class pair
DAVID O'Meara is plotting a course to Glorious Goodwood with two of his stable stars.
Lord Glitters and Suedois finished second and third respectively in the Summer Mile behind Beat The Bank at Ascot on Saturday.
The performance marked a return to form for Suedois, who was a Grade 1 winner in the States last season.
He had been well beaten in the Lockinge and the Queen Anne so far this term but bounced back to something like his best with a close third.
Yorkshire-based O'Meara was pleased with the seven-year-old's effort and has earmarked the Group 2 Lennox Stakes over 7f on 31 July as a likely target.
O'Meara said: "Both are grand after it, I was delighted with Suedois after he had disappointed in the Queen Anne.
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"It was more how the race panned out that day, though, and he's shown that back round a bend he's as good as he was last year, when he won a Grade 1 abroad and a Group 2 in Ireland.
"The next step for him could be the Lennox at Goodwood.
"Expert Eye looks to be heading there, but Suedois was third in it last year, so he likes it there."
Lord Glitters, who was narrowly beaten into second in the Queen Anne at Royal Ascot, finished a short-head in front of his stablemate at the weekend in the Summer Mile.
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O'Meara said that the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot in October was his long-term aim, but that the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood on 1 August could be his next assignment.
He said: "We knew there wasn't much between Suedois and Lord Glitters and it's just a shame they weren't first and second.
"He (Lord Glitters) is probably better on soft, but the summer we are having means he wouldn't be running at all if we kept waiting.
"Longer term, the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes looks his race, but there's the Sussex at Goodwood or the Strensall at York he could run in before then - he'll go wherever the ground is easier."