Golden amongst King George 16

Europe's champion colt Golden Horn tops a list of 16 horses going forward for Ascot's midsummer highlight, the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes on July 25.

The John Gosden-trained three-year-old took his 100 per cent record to five when beating his elders in the Coral-Eclipse at Sandown on Saturday to become the first horse to add that 10-furlong Group One to victories in the Dante Stakes and Investec Derby.

Ascot's mile-and-a-half championship, sponsored by Qipco, is seen as the next logical step for Golden Horn to take as long as he shows his trainer he has fully recovered from his Sandown exertions.

If successful in the King George, Golden Horn would become the 14th colt to complete the Derby-King George double in the same season and the first since Galileo in 2001.

And he would be the fourth to achieve the Derby/Eclipse/King George treble in the same year after Nashwan (1989), Mill Reef (1971) and Tulyar (1952).

Hugo Lascelles, racing manager to owner Anthony Oppenheimer, said: "Both John Gosden and Mr Oppenheimer have told me that Golden Horn has come out of his win in the Eclipse very well.

"John and Mr Oppenheimer will see how he is before making the decision as to whether he goes to Ascot. With two and a half weeks to go, there is plenty of time."

Gosden, successful in the King George with Taghrooda last year and Nathaniel in 2011, could also saddle last year's fourth Eagle Top, who was second in the Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot last month.

Lascelles, who also advises Eagle Top's owner Lady Bamford, said: "It is the plan for Eagle Top to go again this year.

"It was a good run when he was fourth last year and again last time out in the Hardwicke. Eagle Top has a good record at Ascot, having won last year's King Edward VII, and we will give it a go."

Gosden has two other possibles - Mahsoob, who puts his unbeaten record in the line in the Princess of Wales's Stakes at Newmarket on Thursday, plus last year's Derby third Romsdal.

Taghroda became only the second Oaks winner to triumph at Ascot in the same year after Pawneese in 1976. This year's Investec Oaks heroine Qualify remains engaged and is one of two fillies representing Aidan O'Brien alongside the Pretty Polly Stakes scorer Diamondsandrubies.

Sir Michael Stoute, jointly the most successful trainer of all time with five wins in the Ascot contest, has last year's runner-up Telescope and Hillstar. It could be three for Stoute if, as expected, the all-the-way Hardwicke Stakes winner Snow Sky is added to the field at the supplementary stage on July 20 at a cost of £75,000.

David Simcock has both Madame Chiang and The Corsican, while Luca Cumani has Postponed and Peter Niven would consider Clever Cookie if there was enough give in the ground.

Andre Fabre's Flintshire and Dolniya, trained by Alain de Royer-Dupre, are the two French possibles, with Dylan Mouth from Stefano Botti's stable representing Italy.

German handler Andreas Wohler, successful with Novellist two years ago, has left in the unbeaten German 2000 Guineas winner Karpino, who suffered a setback recently and had to miss the German Derby.