• Stablemate Shakeel ruled out of Chantilly bid through injury • Jack Hobbs on course for the Champion Stakes at Ascot

Zarak will have a crucial workout on Tuesday in preparation for the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Chantilly a week on Sunday.

The four-year-old, a best-priced 16-1 for the highlight of the European Flat racing season, has had a break since winning the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud at the beginning of July.

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The trainer Alain de Royer-Dupre said on Monday: “I would have preferred to go to Maisons-Laffitte to have a main gallop on their race day last week but instead he will have a gallop on Tuesday morning. If he does well, we are going to the Arc.”

Zarak will not be joined at Chantilly by stablemate Shakeel, who has not been seen since beating the ill-fated Permian in the Grand Prix de Paris in the middle of July. The son of Dalakhani, who like Zarak is owned by the Aga Khan, has been ruled of the Arc because of injury. “He will not run as he had an injury in the Grand Prix de Paris,” the trainer said.

Royer-Dupre is considering the Arc for One Foot In Heaven, although the five-year-old has another option in the Prix du Conseil de Paris at Chantilly on 15 October, a race he won in 2016.

“It also may be the Arc for One Foot In Heaven. We do not know what we will do at this stage,” Royer-Dupre said. “He has the choice to run in the Arc or the Conseil de Paris two weeks after.”

Royer-Dupre reported his classy Vazirabad to be on course for the Prix du Cadran on the first day of the Arc meeting on 30 September. The five-year-old, who was a close second to Quest For More in that stamina test last autumn, made a winning return from a summer break in the Prix Gladiateur at Chantilly this month. “He is going for the Cadran for sure,” Royer‑Dupre said.

Bateel is unlikely to be supplemented for the Arc with connections favouring a crack at the Qipco British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes at Ascot on 21 October. Although no final decision on her participation in the Paris showpiece has yet been made, connections of the Prix Vermeille winner are leaning towards keeping her to the Group One later that month that is confined to her own sex.

“There will be no decision until the end of the week but it is looking more likely she will wait for Ascot,” the trainer Francis Graffard said. “She is very well, but at the moment it is more likely she will wait for Ascot.”

Bateel won four races for Newmarket trainer David Simcock last season and has enjoyed an even better campaign in 2017 with wins at Group Three and Two level.

John Gosden aims to have Jack Hobbs ready for a third shot at the Qipco Champion Stakes on the same card. The 2015 Irish Derby winner has not been seen in competitive action since he suffered a setback when down the field in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at Ascot in July. Jack Hobbs has failed to fire in both his starts in Britain this season but the son of Halling secured an impressive Group One win in Dubai in March.

Gosden said: “Jack Hobbs is in good form and he will go for the Champion Stakes. He ran brilliantly in Dubai then the ground was too firm at Royal Ascot.

“He just had a little problem with his hock after the King George in that he had a tiny stress fracture near the top of a cannon bone. He has been off since the King George but hopefully we will get him back for the Champion Stakes.”

Jack Hobbs has finished third in the last two renewals of the Champion Stakes, for which Sir Michael Stoute has given Irish Champion Stakes runner-up Poet’s Word the green light. Stoute said: “He had a tough race in Ireland and he won’t run again before the Champion Stakes. He has progressed really well.”

Tony Paley’s Tuesday tips

Chepstow 1.40 Goodnight Girl 2.10 Natheer 2.45 W G Grace 3.15 Salt Whistle Bay 3.50 Pacofilha 4.20 Knight Destroyer 4.55 Atlanta Bay 5.25 Kozier

Newcastle 5.40 Chancery 6.10 Savannah Moon 6.40 Galilee Chapel 7.10 Finisher 7.40 Alwasmiya 8.10 Far Dawn 8.40 Lozah 9.10 Express Lady

Redcar 1.20 Hedonism 1.50 Emerald Rocket 2.20 Interlink 2.55 Short Work 3.25 Kynren (nap) 4.00 Van Velde 4.30 Cavalieri 5.05 Flying Fantasy

Yarmouth 2.00 Mashaheer 2.35 Simpson (nb) 3.05 High End 3.40 Broughtons Admiral 4.10 One Master 4.45 Dream Bounty 5.15 Silvanus