Running legend Coghlan leads son John up the Garden path

NEW YORK’S legendary Millrose Games will roll back the years for its 99th year next week when the name Coghlan is announced for the mile at Madison Square Garden.

It won’t be “Chairman of the Boards” Eamonn Coghlan going to the line next Friday, February 3, but his son John, who will be running in the Jumbo Elliott Boys High School Mile.

It’s his first race on an indoor oval and one of the toughest ones on the circuit, with tighter turns than usual and a mile taking 11 laps rather than the standard eight. The Castleknock teenager is the 2005 All-Ireland Schools Intermediate Boys’ 1,500 metres champion and is coached by his famous father, who won seven Wanamaker Miles at the Garden in 11 years between 1977 and 1987.