Jockey arrangements for the Ballydoyle team heading to Haydock for Saturday's big sprint are still undecided, but Michael Kinane's Group One weekend is set to culminate on Hawkeye in Sunday's Prix du Moulin.
Longchamp's mile highlight will be a significant step up in class for Hawkeye, who struggled home by a length from his stable companion Pebble Island in the Desmond Stakes last time out.
But trainer Aidan O'Brien believes the soft going was against the colt at the Curragh, and yesterday he confirmed Kinane will be on board Hawkeye as the Ballydoyle team try to build on an already staggering total of 14 Group One successes this season.
O'Brien also has Bach and last year's National Stakes winner, Beckett, in the Moulin but is likely to rely on just Hawkeye. Godolphin have both Best Of The Bests and Slickly in the race, while the Coronation Stakes winner Banks Hill looks to head the home team.
Galileo remains as short as 4 to 9 with Cashmans for Saturday's Ireland The Food Island Champion Stakes at Leopardstown, and O'Brien reported "so far-so good" in terms of his unbeaten colt's big race preparation.
Final declarations will be made today, and with the ground at Leopardstown remaining "good" yesterday, it is all but certain that Fantastic Light will represent Godolphin and not the Juddmonte International winner Sakhee.
Dermot Weld was holding fire yesterday on making a decision on whether to run the Meld Stakes winner Muakaad, who also holds an entry in the Kiltiernan Stakes on Saturday.
Muakaad is quoted at 33 to 1 with Cashmans, along with Bach, for whom no jockey arrangements have been finalised, along with Mull Of Kintyre and Minardi, which are O'Brien's most likely runners in Haydock's Stanley Leisure Sprint Cup.
All horseboxes entering Leopardstown will have to be sprayed as part of foot-and-mouth measures re-introduced to racecourses due to the renewed spread of the disease in the UK.
A track spokesman said: "There will be no entry for racegoers at the Foxrock gate and all boxes will have to be sprayed. The Department are being careful with everything that is happening in England and they are just keeping their finger on it here."
This afternoon's action is at Clonmel, where three races have been divided and where Charlie Swan could be a man to follow. The former champion jockey is on his own African Waters in the second division of the maiden, and the Tralee bumper winner should be prominent, while Swan looks a significant booking for Near Dunleer in the fourth race.
Frances Crowley should score with Applause, and can also figure prominently in the first division of that handicap with the topweight Atitandall, who is returning after a fall at Killarney in July.
Putsometnby beat Quiet Millfit by a length and a half at Tralee last week and that form looks good to follow this afternoon.
