Fallon to take his seat on Youmzain

Racing: Kieren Fallon will head to Mick Channon's West Ilsley yard tomorrow to put Youmzain through his paces before the pair…

Racing:Kieren Fallon will head to Mick Channon's West Ilsley yard tomorrow to put Youmzain through his paces before the pair team up in the Grosser Preis von Baden-Baden in Germany on Sunday.

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 onto the continent 48 hours later.

Youmzain will be bidding to improve on his fourth place in the 2007 renewal of the German Group One, in which Fallon will partner the six-year-old for the first time in public.

Owner Jaber Abdullah's racing manager Bruce Raymond said: "Kieren is going to ride him if he runs, and if the horse is successful then he will hopefully ride him in the Arc too, unless something gets in the way.

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"The idea is for Kieren to go down to West Ilsley this week to sit on him."

Dual Group One-winner Youmzain 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.

Raymond added: "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."

Channon added on At The Races: "I'm pleased with him and he has come out of his little setback so if everything goes all right on Tuesday with Kieren sat on him, he'll go to Baden-Baden at the weekend."