Classic winners Precise (Starspangledbanner) and Rayif (Sea The Moon) headline 12 confirmations for Sunday's Aga Khan Studs Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville.The Group 1 feature, which offers total prize-money of €1 million, will be without its star attraction following the retirement of Bow Echo (Night Of Thunder), but the three-year-old contingent is still formidable with five of the 12 possible runners representing the Classic generation.Chief among them is the Poule d'Essai des Poulains hero Rayif, who was last seen finishing fifth in the G1 Prix Jean Prat won by Fozzy Stack's Thesecretadversary (St Mark's Basilica).Thesecretadversary could reoppose at Deauville on Sunday, although he also has the option of the G1 City Of York Stakes the following weekend, likewise the Robson Aguiar-trained Power Blue (Space Blues), who resumed winning ways in the G2 Minstrel Stakes at the Curragh last time.The potential Irish challenge also features the aforementioned Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Precise, who has chased home Blue Bolt (Blue Point) in the G1 Falmouth Stakes and G1 Prix Rothschild since registering her fourth top-level win in the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot. She could be joined in the line-up by stablemate Puerto Rico (Wootton Bassett), a dual Group 1-winning two-year-old but yet to scale the same heights in three starts this season.High-class older milers More Thunder (Night Of Thunder) and Zeus Olympios (Night Of Thunder) look set to make the journey over from Britain, while Japanese hopes rest with June's G1 Yasuda Kinen scorer Sixpence (Kizuna) and Strauss (Maurice), the winner of the inaugural $1-million Abu Dhabi Gold Cup in February.The list of contenders is completed by French-trained runners Dreamliner (Adlerflug), No Lunch (Dubawi) and Sir Tommy Cen (Dark Angel), all of whom will be competing at the top level for the first time.Sprint Cup under consideration for SamanganRayif represents Francis Graffard and the Aga Khan Studs as that team bids to take home the feature contest at Deauville for the second weekend in succession, having watched Samangan (Blue Point) make the breakthrough at the top level in last Sunday's ARC Prix Maurice de Gheest.Samangan, who had previously finished one place ahead of Rayif when fourth in the Prix Jean Prat, could be seen next on British soil, with his connections considering supplementing him for the G1 Betfair Sprint Cup, which takes place at Haydock on Saturday, September 5.“He wasn't right at the beginning of the year and he's been running well in these races,” said Nemone Routh, French racing manager and director for the Aga Khan Studs. “I think putting the cheekpieces on really sharpened him up and, thankfully, his day came.“He's not in it, but we will keep an eye on the Haydock Park Sprint because that falls right for him. Although a straight six [furlongs] is probably at the sharp end for him, he can do it.“If we had good, fast ground, we might supplement him for that. But, if it was to get too soft, we wouldn't go there. We'll keep an eye on that race for him and see where we go after that, but he will be ground dependent as we wouldn't run him on soft, end-of-year ground.”The post Classic Winners Precise and Rayif Lead 12 Contenders for Prix Jacques le Marois appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.