Eagle Mountain set for Newmarket return

Mike de Kock is preparing to unleash Eagle Mountain at Newmarket on Friday for his first run since a narrow defeat to Literato in the Champion Stakes nearly a year ago.

The Derby runner-up was sold by Aidan O’Brien’s Ballydoyle operation for an undisclosed fee at the end of last season to owner Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum but he fractured his pelvis when working in Dubai during the winter.