JIM BOLGER'S runaway English 1,000 Guineas winner Finsceal Beo makes a surprise return to action at Longchamp today. She will be bidding to complete the second leg of an unprecedented Classic treble by winning the French equivalent en route to achieving further glory in the Boylesports Irish 1,000 Guineas in two weeks' time.

Victory in all three races would go some way towards providing her trainer with compensation for the setback suffered by his home-bred colt Teofilo in the lead-up to the English 2,000 Guineas.

Michael Ryan's filly has gone from strength to strength since winning last season's Prix Marcel Boussac at Longchamp and she impressed the Newmarket crowd with the manner of her two-and-a-half length win over Arch Swing in record time.

Bolger reports Finsceal Beo to have come out of last Sunday's race very well and she will be a short price to complete an English/ French 1,000 Guineas double that was achieved by Miesque in 1987.

The trainer's son-in-law, Kevin Manning, will again be in the saddle when she goes to post for the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches. It promises to be a busy afternoon for the jockey as he also rides Finsceal Beo's stable-companion Creachadoir in the French 2,000 Guineas on the same card.

Creachadoir is the lead horse for Teofilo at home, but showed he is no back-number when registering his second Group 3 success of the season in the Tetrarch Stakes at the Curragh on Monday. He, too, is reported to have taken the exertions in his stride and he is joined in the line-up for the French Classic by no less than five other Irish-trained horses.

They are the Aidan O'Brientrained quartet Honoured Guest, Excellent Art, Astronomer Royal and Brave Tin Soldier and the raiding party is completed by David Wachman's impressive Tipperary maiden winner, Followmyfootsteps.

Honoured Guest has improved with every run and he will be ridden at Longchamp by Gerald Mosse, rather than the Ballydoyle number two Seamus Heffernan. He will be on duty for O'Brien instead at Leopardstown.

Heffernan partners Motivator's full-brother Macarthur in the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial, a race that has been won in the past by no lesser horses than Sinndar, Galileo, High Chaparral, Alamshar and Dylan Thomas.

Preference in this Group 2 event, however, is for Mores Wells, from the Kevin Prendergast yard. The Sadler's Wells colt showed likeable improvement from his maiden success to win the Ballysax Stakes at this venue last month and the form of that race has worked out well.

Macarthur finished two lengths behind Mores Wells on that occasion, but O'Brien suggested that significant improvement is likely. His stable-mate Archipenko, the mount of Michael Kinane, is another one to note after recording a fine maiden win at Leopardstown last season.

The honours in the Derrinstown Stud 1,000 Guineas Trial may go to David Wachman's representative Alexander Tango at the expense of Rock Of Gibraltar's full-sister Nell Gwyn and Michael Halford's well-regarded Navan winner Majestic Eviction.

Racing also takes place at Killarney where the feature event on the first day of the May Festival is the Murphys Irish Stout Handicap Hurdle.

The vote here goes to the Seamus Fahey-trained Marikhar who filled the runner-up spot behind Dalucci at Punchestown last time and holds most appeal, despite being a pound out of the handicap proper.