Mill Stream returns to Deauville on Sunday (4 August) with a major chance in the Prix Maurice de Gheest to make it two Group One successes in less than a month.

The July Cup winner enjoys his trips to the picture-postcard French seaside resort.

Last year the Jane Chapple-Hyam trained four-year-old made a splash with a quick-fire listed and G3 double over 1200m.

He turns up on Sunday over this slightly longer 1300m trip with a swagger in his stride after landing the prestigious Newmarket sprinter’s prize by a neck.

Chapple-Hyam immediately set her sights on Sunday’s goal, the second of five G1s at Deauville’s summer festival of racing.

Mill Stream’s July Cup win was a career best performance, and Chapple-Hyam is hopeful her stable star can burnish his stallion status with another Olympian performance during the 2024 Games in Paris.

Mill Stream lives in the same box at Chapple-Hyam’s yard used by the mighty Australian sprinter Black Caviar before her G1 Royal Ascot triumph back in 2012.

Swooping late in the July Cup Mill Stream provided jockey William Buick with a milestone 100th G1, and the rider turns up fresh from another top level triumph in Wednesday’s Sussex Stakes at Goodwood.

Chapple-Hyam is sweet on another big pay day in Sunday’s race which has been won by English-trained visitors in six of the past 10 runnings.

Chapple-Hyam said: "Mill Stream is very good in having three weeks in between races, which takes us up to the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest at Deauville where the six and a half furlongs (1300m) on a Flat track should suit him."

"It’s an extended six (furlongs, 1200m)," Chapple-Hyam told the thoroughbreddailynews website.

"But going on how he hit the line in the July Cup I don’t think it will be a problem, and he likes the track."

In a big field the main danger could be the Jean-Claude Rouget-trained Puchkine who is also aiming for a G1 double after landing last month’s Prix Jean Prat (1400m) as a 35-1 outsider.

His stablemate Havana Cigar, and third Beauvatier, reoppose.

Of Rouget’s two three-year-olds the trainer’s assistant Jean-Bernard Roth told France’s Paris Turf racing daily: "The two colts have remained in great shape since their last runs. They’ve worked well. Now they are taking on older horses which makes things more complicated. But they line up with good chances."

Beauvatier’s connections paid out the cash to supplement their runner on Thursday rather than go for the easier assignment of the G3 Prix Daphnis on the same card.

"He showed us lots of speed in the Prix Jean Prat," trainer Yann Barberot reported.

"For me the Maurice de Gheest is perfect for him."

Others who line up with plausible hopes of landing a race first run in 1922 are Shouldvebeenaring, who notched up his career sixth win at the track last month, last year’s winner King Gold, and the interesting Irish-trained filly Matilda Picotte.