Up-and-coming trainer Sam Pritchard-Gordon is excited about the challenge ahead after acquiring French Group One winner Mutual Trust.

The four-year-old has been bought by an Australian syndicate which includes high profile owners Andrew Ramsden and Adam Sangster.

Pritchard-Gordon has been given the chance to rejuvenate the import's career after he lost form during a three-start campaign in America.

The trainer said Mutual Trust was built more like an Australian-bred horse than a European.

"He's a ripping good horse with a fantastic pedigree and looks to match," Pritchard-Gordon told racingvictoria.net.au.

"He's a striking black horse, but he's more Australian than he is European in his physique. He's all muscle and there's very much a lot of Danehill about him."

Mutual Trust is a proven miler and while he is likely to be nominated for the Group One Australian Cup at Flemington in March, Pritchard-Gordon says the 2000m race might come too soon.

The trainer believes the Sydney and Brisbane carnivals might be better targets for his new acquisition.