FRANKIE DETTORI is looking forward to putting the ‘‘finishing touches’’ to Treve on Tuesday morning ahead of her eagerly-awaited return to action in the Prix Ganay at Longchamp later this month.

Criquette Head-Maarek’s Motivator filly took her unbeaten record to five with a mesmerising display in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in Paris in October, with Dettori forced to watch from the sidelines due to injury as she sauntered clear in the hands of Thierry Jarnet.

As retained rider for owner Sheikh Joaan Al Thani, Dettori is set to get back on board this season and is struggling to contain his excitement just to be partnering the fouryear- old on the gallops.

Speaking at Windsor on Monday, he said: ‘‘I’m going to fly to Chantilly tonight and I’m going to give her the finishing touches tomorrow morning, so I’m a little bit like a child before Christmas morning – I’m dead excited.

‘‘She is the best horse in the world. She proved to everybody how good she was (in the Arc). I was delighted with her.

‘‘If you look down the runners – there were horses like Intello, Orfevre, Al Kazeem, they were all in the field and she just annihilated them.

‘‘I rode her a couple of weeks ago and I forgot how good she was. I walked around with a smile on my face for three weeks.

‘‘It’s amazing what a winter does to a filly and she looks magnificent.’’ If Treve does make a winning return as expected in the Ganay, it appears increasingly likely she will make her first appearance in Britain at Royal Ascot in June.

‘‘If everything goes to plan she’ll be back on April 27 and it’s all looking good at this stage,’’ Dettori told At The Races.

‘‘Her programme is already pencilled in. It will be the Ganay and if everything goes well, I think Criquette and Sheikh Joaan will decide to take her to England and parade her in the Prince of Wales’s (Stakes).”