Fallon to team up with Youmzain

Youmzain will head for the Grosser Preis von Baden-Baden in Germany on Sunday providing he comes through a gallop with Kieren Fallon.

The former champion jockey will resume race-riding in Britain following an 18-month drugs suspension on Friday, and the 44-year-old is marked down for a trip to the continent 48 hours later.

The dual Group One-winner has been off the track since finishing third in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud two months ago, with a joint problem ruling him out of the Betfair-sponsored King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

But Mick Channon's colt is on course to return in preparation for another tilt at the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in October, in which he has finished second twice.

"The idea is for Kieren to go down to West Ilsley this week to sit on him," said owner Jaber Abdullah's racing manager Bruce Raymond. "He is due to run on Sunday provided all is well with him.

"He is fine at the moment it is just a case of whether Mick thinks he is well enough to go for a Group One.

"If he misses the weekend then he will go for the Arc, or perhaps have a trial at Newbury beforehand, but the plan is to run in Germany.

"He burst a capsule in a joint before the King George. The joint wasn't painful. It did swell up, but it went down and is fine now."