Arkadian Hero is to tackle the best milers in the business after reinventing himself with his victory at Newmarket today.
The five-year-old had spent much of the past two years locking horns with the fastest horses over sprint distances.
But after making what his trainer Luca Cumani called his "career change", Arkadian Hero took the seven furlongs of the Group Three Van Geest Criterion Stakes in his stride.
Given a cool ride by Jamie Spencer, celebrating his first Group success in Britain, Arkadian Hero swamped his rivals for speed up the final climb, powering home two lengths clear of the German challenger Chagall with Showboat, who edged out the pacesetter Misraah for third, another half-length away.
This was Arkadian Hero's first attempt at a distance above six furlongs since the son of Trempolino had finished unplaced in the 2000 Guineas two years ago.
Cumani said "I'm delighted with that. He has benefited from his career change, going up a furlong from sprinting to seven furlongs."
The trainer, enjoying his first domestic Group winner of the season, having landed a Group One in Italy last month with Endless Hall, will now ask Arkadian Hero to step up to a mile in the Group One Champagne Lanson Sussex Stakes at Goodwood next month.
He added: "I know the Sussex will be much tougher opposition than today but I thought that he showed me he will get a mile. He settles very well.
"He couldn't come out when he wanted to but when he did, in the space of a furlong, he made up three lengths very rapidly, and he was going away at the end."
Cumani admitted to having gone down a "blind alley" since running Arkadian Hero in the Guineas, his attempts at sprinting yielding just two wins at Listed level.
"You could say I'm a bit slow at thinking these things out, I should have done this earlier."
Mark Johnston's Double Eclipse is also on target for Goodwood after coming within a neck of making a dramatic return to racing after an absence of two and a half years when denied by stablemate Murghem in the Hole in the Wall Fred Archer Stakes.
Double Eclipse had spent the past two years on stallion duties but a relatively low number of mares compared to those courting his elder brother Double Trigger prompted a return to racecourse activity.
Double Eclipse showed he had lost none of his ability in the near 1,000 days since his last outing, and running over 12 furlongs for the first time in five years he rallied in the closing stages to make Murghem pull out all the stops to secure his hat-trick.
Double Eclipse had lost out narrowly to Double Trigger in an epic battle for the Goodwood Cup in 1995 and that race next month is now on the agenda.
Owner Ron Huggins said "It's taken a lot to get him fit as he had two years at stud but there haven't been any problems with his legs. That was a marvellous run and he'll now go to Goodwood."
Richard Hills, who rode Murghem, followed up when producing Shalimar to beat Picture Puzzle by three-quarters of a length in the Sovereign Bookmakers Fillies' Handicap.
David Cosgrove saddled his first winner of a Listed race when In The Woods defended her unbeaten record under George Duffield in the High Havens Empress Stakes.
In The Woods held Santolina by a neck after which Cosgrove said: "George said she was happy in front and felt confident she was always going to pick up."
Cosgrove has the filly entered in the Cherry Hinton Stakes at the July meeting and also in the Cheveley Park Stakes in the autumn and added: "She'll tell us where we go. She's done us proud."
