Godolphin needed to buy into last year’s winner of the Dubai Dewhurst Stakes but the team has found a juvenile from their own production line with a leading chance of defending today’s renewal of the key Group 1.

Criquette Head-Maarek has confirmed her incredible Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe heroine Treve will stay in training as a four-year-old to defend her Longchamp crown.