The Harry Eustace-trained Docklands will take his chance in Sunday’s Prix Jacques Le Marois at Deauville having been supplemented to the field at a cost of €72,000 on Thursday.

A winner in handicap company at Royal Ascot last season, Docklands ensured it was back-to-back wins at the Royal meeting when he provided trainer Harry Eustace with a memorable moment by battling back bravely to deny Rosallion in the Queen Anne Stakes in June.

Richard Hannon's Rosallion reversed the placings when failing to run down shock winner Qirat in the Sussex Stakes earlier in the month but with Docklands, who could only manage to finish fifth at Glorious Goodwood, expected to be more at home now back on a straight track, Eustace believes his talented OTI-owned five-year-old deserves to take his chance.

"He's come out of Goodwood very well," said Eustace on Sky Sports Racing. "It was very much the plan to run at Goodwood as a stepping-stone into this race, as much as Goodwood being a spot we thought he'd be overly competitive in if I'm honest.

"I think if you asked a lot of the connections, they'd ask if we could run the race again the following day. We probably felt that Docklands ran as we expected, albeit the end result was different from the winning point of view I suppose.

"His Ascot form is well documented and a track like Goodwood isn't going to play to his strengths at all. We're hoping that heading back to a straight mile, albeit this time in France at Deauville, will do."

On the prospect of having to face the Richard Hannon-trained Rosallion once more, Eustace added: "I suppose in an ideal world he would have won at Goodwood and I suspect if he had won, he wouldn't be reopposing, but going back to a straight mile does help us.

"Rosallion possibly is the form horse to beat, although I thought The Lion In Winter, having dropped back from the Derby trip to the Prix Jean Prat and ran incredibly well, could be interesting – a mile could be his sweet spot.

"We are now in among both the three-year-olds and the older horse milers and there are no easy ones, that's for sure."

With Docklands added to the already star-studded line-up on Thursday, eleven horses are set to go to post in the mile Group 1, with Charlie Appleby's Notable Speech, the Aidan O'Brien-trained The Lion In Winter and Roger Teal's Dancing Gemini all adding further depth from Britain and Ireland.

In contrast, the Aga Khan Studs-owned pair of Ridari and Zabiari make up the home challenge with King Gold, while Japan are also responsible for two runners in the shape of top-level Tokyo scorer Ascoli Piceno and Go To First.