Aidan O’Brien could look towards the Sky Bet Voltigeur Stakes at York next week for his dual Derby hero Lambourn as he gears up the preparation for major autumn targets.

Having replicated his father Australia with victories in the English and Irish Derby, Aidan O'Brien's striking three-year-old now looks set to contest further top-level targets in the coming months.

A trip to Doncaster for the final British Classic of the season looked firmly on the table following his Irish Derby success, but plenty of water has flowed under the bridge since then, with stablemate Scandinavia now seeming the Aidan O'Brien-trained number one shot for the St Leger Stakes following his gutsy success in the Goodwood Cup.

With Scandinavia almost certain to take the St Leger route, Lambourn could gear up for a trip to Longchamp's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe with a run in the Sky Bet Voltigeur Stakes at York next week.

On whether Lambourn could drop back to Group 2 company at York, O'Brien told Sky Sports Racing: "He could, we've a lot of horse's kind of ready for the Voltigeur, some are just about ready and some are probably not going to make it.

"Lambourn definitely could. We'll see how he is, and his next target then can be either the Leger or the Arc. I think the lads are thinking Scandinavia is going to be trained for the Leger now – if the ground was nice, he would go there and Lambourn wouldn't go there, but if it was the other way Lambourn would go there.

"Lambourn probably needs a race between now and the Leger or the Arc and it (Great Voltigeur) is a race that could suit him.

"He's a straightforward, honest, no-nonsense horse. He does what he has to do and doesn't do any more."

Lambourn could be joined by a whole host of others from the Ballydoyle camp in Paris come October, with stablemate Los Angeles firmly on the team sheet at this current stage.

Third in the contest twelve months ago, Los Angeles kicked off his season with back-to-back victories at the Curragh before ultimately returning the disappointing beaten favourite behind Ombudsman in the Prince Of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot.

The son of Camelot has since been given some time off, with O'Brien keen to begin his Arc preparations in the Newbridge Silverware Royal Whip Stakes at the Curragh on Saturday.

He said: "We were thinking he could go to the Royal Whip and go and improve a lot," O'Brien added.

"He's had a break since Ascot, and we were thinking if he went to the Curragh this weekend he could go to the Prix Foy as an Arc trial or he could go to the Irish Champion Stakes as an Arc trial.

"All those things are open, but he's just starting back, and he'll be running with no pressure win, lose or draw (this weekend). We'd just like to get a run into him to get him ready for the autumn.

"The Arc has been his target all the time. We tightened him up a bit too much in the Prince of Wales's Stakes and because of that he just had to have a little rest. He's come back happy but will progress a lot before the Arc."

Another horse of Aidan O'Brien's heading to France could be Henri Matisse, who was last seen disappointing when failing to lay a glove on 150/1 chance Qirat in the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood.

However, O'Brien is happy to put a line through that performance, with the master of Ballydoyle now looking towards the Prix du Moulin at Longchamp in September.

"He'll go probably for the Prix du Moulin," said O'Brien. "Goodwood was a little bit of a disaster – it was really only a four-furlong dash in the second half of the race.

"It was one of those races that is hard to work out, but we were very happy with the run, Ryan (Moore) was very happy with him, and we think he's still progressing.

"We haven't seen the best of him yet, we think."