The Prix Ganay looks like being a clash between France's best horse and its most popular one with Treve and Cirrus Des Aigles entered for the Group One at Longchamp.

Trainer Corine Barande-Barbe has confirmed veteran Cirrus Des Aigles will take on the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner on Sunday.

The unbeaten Treve is expected to run in the 10-furlong (2000m) race before Criquette Head-Maarek aims her for either Royal Ascot or the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud.

Cirrus Des Aigles won the Ganay in 2012 and the eight-year-old's powers do not seem to be waning as he finished an excellent second to Gentildonna in last month's Dubai Sheema Classic."

"He's very well, in cracking form, and he's running in the Prix Ganay," Barande-Barbe said.

Other possible runners in the field are Prix d'Harcourt winner Smoking Sun and Belle De Crecy, who finished second in the British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes for Johnny Murtagh but has now moved to Head-Maarek in the same ownership as Treve.