THE French look sure to amass a considerable amount of dollars at the Dubai World Cup meeting at Meydan in a weeks’ time and a few ante-post investments before the big day may reap interesting rewards.

With little doubt, the Freddy Head-trained Solow is a gelding with a big future although he has a long way to go before reaching the heights of Cirrus Des Aigles who misses the Meydan meeting this year.

Since being gelded in July 2013, the son of Singspiel has gone from strength to strength. He landed his first group race by taking the Prix Quincey at Deauville last August and then came with a late run to capture the Group 2 Qatar Prix Daniel Wildenstein.

The five-year-old reappeared on the all-weather at Chantilly earlier this month and crossed the line four lengths clear of the runner-up. Solow runs in the Dubai Duty Free race and his current odds of 6/1 looks outstanding.

He has proven stamina over this distance and the gelding could give Maxime Guyon his first Group 1 success for his new retainers, the Wertheimer brothers.

One of Solow’s main rivals may well be Cladocera who is also trained at Chantilly. Alain de Royer-Dupré has been campaigning this filly at Meydan with great success. She is a course and distance winner and a couple of Group 2 contests have gone her way.

This improving daughter of Oasis Dream has yet to be put under any pressure this season and may well follow Solow past the post.

Khalid Abdullah’s Flintshire is currently 5/1 for the Dubai Sheema Classic which will also be contested by the Aga Khan’s Dolniya. She came out top on the all-weather at Chantilly in the Prix Darshaan by a short neck but there will be a kilo weight advantage to Flintshire in Dubai.

This son of Dansili is exceptional when the ground is good or firmer. He proved this in the 2013 Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris and then had to wait for 17 months for his next success which came in the Longines Hong Kong Vase at Sha Tin.

In the interval between his two Group 1 wins, Flintshire had been runner-up to Cirrus Des Aigles in the Investec Coronation Cup, second to Treve in the Qatar Arc de Triomphe before taking the same place in the Breeders’ Cup Turf race to Main Sequence who he will meet again in the Sheema Classic.

Dolniya has always been highly rated by Royer-Dupré. Last year, she won the Group 2 Prix Corrida before a third in the Qatar Prix Vermeille and a fifth behind Treve and Flintshre in the Arc.

This daughter of Azamour appears to have turned into a very smart four-year-old.

Swedish-born Pia Brandt finished 12th in the trainer’s table last year and her Chantilly stable accumulated nearly €1.26 million in prize money. She sends Bathyrhon for the Gold Cup and his best form would guarantee at least a place in the frame.

A son of Monsun, he picked up the Prix Gladiateur and was then runner-up behind High Jinx in the Qatar Prix du Cadran.