Career
Owned by the Duke of Bedford, Eager started at odds of 5/2 and beat the 5/4 favourite, Vermin, into second. He also trained a hat-trick of Oaks winners in the 1790s - Hippolyta (1790), Portia (1791) and Caelia (1793). All were Duke of Bedford horses.
He died at Newmarket, Suffolk in 1808.
His great-great-granddaughter is British biochemist, Marjory Stephenson.
