Ridden by the stable's first-choice jockey Pat Eddery Solford started favourite and won by three-quarters of a length from Caerleon, who was carrying eight pounds more.
[4] A month later, Solford was moved up to Group One class and was tested against older horses in the Eclipse Stakes over ten furlongs at Sandown Park Racecourse.
The pace was very slow in the early stages and the race developed into a sprint in the last quarter mile with several runners struggling to obtain a clear run.
[4] Eddery sent Solford into the lead approaching the final furlong and the colt held off a series of challenges to win by a head from Muscatite,[6] with Tolomeo, Guns of Navarone and Stanerra less than a length behind.
[7] The Irish colt looked unimpressive before the race and ran poorly to finish fourth of the five runners, fifteen lengths behind the winner Seymour Hicks.
[4] In the official International Classification for 1983, Solford was given a rating of 84, making joint-eighth among the season's three-year-old colt, nine pounds below the top-rated Shareef Dancer.