Frankie: Motivator will have to be at his best

BOTH Shamardal and Motvator’s camps issued confident bulletins yesterday as the two Derby winners edge closer to their eagerly-awaited clash in the Coral-Eclipse Stakes on Saturday.

While Frankie Dettori has a huge amount of respect for Michael Bell’s Epsom hero, he believes that Motivator will have to be “at his best” to trouble his mount Shamardal in the Sandown showdown.

Transferred to the Godolphin operation in the winter, the Giant’s Causeway colt put a disastrous reappearance run in Dubai firmly behind him when landing the French 2000 Guineas.