Eight Set For Champagne Test A field of eight has been declared for the Group Two Sportsman Newspaper Champagne Stakes at York tomorrow.Mark Johnston, who had four possibles engaged for the juvenile contest, will rely on Kirklees, who finished third behind Strategic Prince and Duke Of Marmalade in the Vintage Stakes at Goodwood last time out.Another contender with solid Group Two form is the Aidan O'Brien-trained Eagle Mountain, who finished a head second to Teofilo in the Futurity Stakes at the Curragh.Barry Hills will be represented by promising colt Thousand Words, who defeated subsequent Solario Stakes winner Drumfire in a Newbury conditions race in July.Eoghan O'Neill, who won the race when Silent Times dead-heated with Close To You a year ago, will run the unbeaten Vital Equine.The once-raced Prince Forever will carry the flag for the Michael Jarvis team, while Geoff Huffer runs Cockney Rebel ? second to Doctor Brown in the valuable St Leger Yearling Stakes at York last time.The line-up is completed by Tom Tate's Celtic Sultan and Richard Fahey's Fishforcompliments.? PA Sport
