Former Derby favourite Mount Everest makes belated return

Mount Everest returns to action in the Group 3 Paddy Power Betting Shop Stakes (3.40) after almost a year on the sidelines.

He was a leading fancy for this year's Derby, only for a spring setback to rule him out of the Classics, and was last seen finishing a short head behind Japan in the Beresford Stakes at Naas on September 30.

However, trainer Aidan O'Brien has issued a warning to punters by suggesting there may be some cobwebs to blow away.

"Mount Everest is just about ready to start back. He seems in good form at home but he should improve plenty from what he does at Leopardstown," said O'Brien.

Dermot Weld has won this Group 3 four times in the last five years and he relies on Broad Street and Stivers this season.

Mogul bids to join elite group

The Group 2 KPMG Champions Juvenile Stakes (3.05) has an illustrious roll of honour with Madhmoon justifying favouritism in 2018 and Australia doing the business in 2013.

If the betting is to be believed we could see another star this year as Mogul is long odds-on following his stylish victory at the Curragh last time, form that has been franked since by runner-up Shekhem, who won easily at Listowel earlier this week.

"Mogul is a colt we have always liked. He came forward to win at the Curragh and is in good form," O'Brien said of Japan's brother.

Mogul is 10-1 favourite for the 2020 Derby with most firms and that price could shorten further with victory.

Among his six rivals is the Andy Slattery-trained Rebel Tale who chased home Mogul's stablemate, Armory, at the Curragh last time.

Lancaster out to bring the house down

Lancaster House has achieved an awful lot in a very short space of time and he bids to make it four from four in the Group 2 Clipper Logistics Boomerang Stakes (4.50), just five days after ploughing merrily through the mud to take a Listed race at Listowel.

The son of Galileo made his debut on August 3 when he won a Galway maiden by eight lengths, and victories at Tipperary and Listowel confirmed the suspicion he is a Group horse in the making.

There is a strong British challenge at Leopardstown with Matterhorn, who takes on Lancaster House, and Elarqam making the trip over from the Mark Johnston stable.

"Matterhorn has maybe not been so consistent in the last couple of months as he was earlier in the year," said Johnston.

"He doesn't need to do much more racing this year, as he has done plenty already, but he was entered in the race and looking at the ratings we felt it was too good to miss," said Johnston.

Suedois, who won the race in 2017, is back to try to regain his crown for David O'Meara and Danny Tudhope, while Space Traveller represents Richard Fahey.

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