Champion jockey Kieren Fallon will renew his partnership with Arctic Owl in the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot next Thursday.
Fallon, who won the Prix Kergolay at Deauville on the James Fanshawe-trained in 1998, takes over from regular rider Ray Cochrane.
Cochrane was on board the six-year-old when he finished third in the Bonusprint Stakes at Sandown last month, a race he had won the previous season.
Fanshawe said today: "He is on course for the Gold Cup and seems fine.
"He ran very well at Sandown, he got a little tired in the last half-furlong when he was running a big race.
"It was his first run of the season and it was very testing ground."
The going at Ascot is described as good to firm and Arctic Owl has shown his best form with give in the ground.
"Hopefully they will keep watering but he has run some good races on fast ground," Fanshawe added. "He was second to Craigsteel on fast ground in the Princess Of Wales's Stakes at Newmarket last year.
"Kieren Fallon will ride him. He won the Prix Kergolay on him a couple of years ago and rode him work earlier in the week.
"He hasn't raced over further than two miles before but he won't be the only one with a question mark over the distance and I'm hopeful he'll get the trip."
Fanshawe is also set to run recent Goodwood winner Persiano in the Royal Hunt Cup, for which he is a 14-1 chance with Ladbrokes.
Tensile and Eilean Shona could represent the trainer in the Queen Alexandra Stakes but Embraced, an impressive winner at Ascot in May before finishing unplaced in the Musidora Stakes, will not be running at the meeting.
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