Clive Cox will step My Dream Boat up in trip for his next start after earmarking the Al Rayyan Aston Park Stakes at Newbury on May 20 as a potential target.
The Lambourn handler believes the time is right to try the five-year-old over a mile and a half for the first time in his career in the Group Three.
After signing off last season with a creditable effort in defeat in the Champion Stakes, the son of Lord Shanakill finished a staying-on third in his bid to claim back-to-back victories in the Gordon Richards Stakes at Sandown on Friday.
Cox said: "I was very satisfied with his run at Sandown as a seasonal debut. I was pleased with the way he finished the race and it does confirm what we were talking about stepping him up to a mile and a half. That will be the plan with for him now.
"We've been so dry at home he has missed the last three weeks preparation on the grass, but he was not beaten from a fitness point of view, there was just a lack of early pace.
"He is another year older and the extra couple of furlongs will help. At Royal Ascot we will consider the mile-and-a-half race (Hardwicke) rather than the mile-and-a-quarter race (Prince of Wales's Stakes) he won last year.
"I think we will look at the Aston Park at Newbury for him next if the ground there is not too quick."