So what does he think about being such a short price to land a 30-runner race in which the other joint favourite Border Subject is just one of a host of dangers?
"That sort of price wouldn't grab me much at this stage," he added, "though that's not to say that it wouldn't appeal later in the week if everything looked like it was going to be right for the horse."
Saturday's other highlight at Goodwood could see Sir Michael Stoute bidding to follow Golan's pulsating King George win by landing another major prize in the colours of the late Lord Weinstock.
Islington has been noted working impressively with Golan's former galloping companion Cover Up of late and could bid to atone for her lacklustre Oaks performance in a race which will also see Aidan O'Brien's Coronation Stakes winner Sophisticat stepping up to a mile and a quarter for the first time.
