First Look appears likely to be added to a stellar line-up in next weekend’s Qipco Champion Stakes at Ascot following his battling success in the Prix Dollar on Arc weekend.

Carrying the colours of Wathnan Racing, First Look has gone from strength to strength since being gelded earlier in the season, downing Goliath in the ten-furlong Group 3 Prix Gontaut-Biron Hong Kong Jockey Club before outbattling Bay City Roller late on in the Group 2 Prix Dollar to complete the hat-trick last weekend.

The Andre Fabre-trained son of Lope de Vega now looks in line to step up to Group 1 level, with connections revealing that their four-year-old could join Calandagan at Ascot on Champions Day.

Richard Brown, racing advisor for the owners Wathnan Racing, said: "All the signs are that he has come out of the Prix Dollar well and as long as the Fabre team continue to be happy with him then we will be supplementing him for the Champion Stakes.

"His form is very good; he beat Goliath at Deauville and has then gone and beaten Bay City Roller where again he was strong at the line and battled. He's on a steep upward trajectory.

"The Champion Stakes is a really big step up, but he has won a Listed race, a Group 3 and a Group 2 in his last three starts and he keeps pulling it out, so we'll find out how good he really is on a week Saturday."