George Scott has revealed that his breakthrough Group 1 hero Caballo De Mar will return to Longchamp this season to contest the Prix Royal-Oak.

The four-year-old gelding has made gigantic strides this season, winning six of his nine starts and taking his form to a new level for the George Scott team.

Having run out a commanding winner the German St Leger at Dortmund in September, Caballo De Mar went on to provide Scott with his first European Group 1 success thanks to a battling victory over Coltrane in the Qatar Prix du Cadran at Longchamp earlier in the month.

With Scott now keen for further Group 1 glory, the Victorious Forever-owned son of Phoenix Of Spain looks set to line-up at Saint-Cloud on October 26th.

"We've been really pleased with him since his run in the Cadran," said Scott.

"He's so straightforward, such an easy horse to train and it seems like he's just thriving. This looks like an obvious fit for him, three weeks in between runs will be perfect and he's in great shape.

"The lovely thing about him is that you can fire him out the gates into the race without setting him alight. You can get a position without using any effort.

"It looks like Double Major is going to run and he looks like a horse that seems to want an easy lead, but Caballo will just take him on all the way, and it will be fascinating to see.

"You can put our horse anywhere and that will benefit him massively.

"He's so relaxed and conserves so much energy. We had the heart rate monitory on him this morning galloping and most horses would be doing more in a hack canter than he's doing galloping. He's so laid back and lazy, it's extraordinary."

On future plans, Scott added: "We're not going to send him to the Middle East this winter because we've finally decided that he doesn't like fast ground,"

"We'll just really give him time over the winter and bring him back to train him for all the nice staying races."