The Dante meeting has flown and we’re into the Festival’s final day.

We were delighted to go home with a winner on opening day but despite a couple of good performances yesterday we failed to notch up another. We have nine going to war on the Knavesmire this afternoon which is where we need to be hitting the scoreboard; we also run two at Hamilton’s evening meeting and one at Newcastle. Let’s hope we’re adding one or two more to our Roll of Honour before the day is out!

Glen’s Diamond lines up in the Group 2 Sportingbet Yorkshire Cup. The handsome Intikhab gelding ran three respectable races in Dubai this winter and made his reappearance on English turf at Chester eight days ago over 1m 2f and steps back up to 1m 6f in today’s feature race.

Richard says: “Glen's Diamond needs to bounce back because I was very disappointed with him at Chester last week. He'd been working with a bit more spark and a bit more speed before that so I dropped him back in trip and that didn't suit him at all. It's a very tough race. If he finished in the first four I'd be delighted but at the moment we're just in no man's land with him. We need him to run a race and I always felt he'd make a good staying horse. There's plenty of pace in there, he should settle, but I need to see more from him here.”

Lily’s Angel takes part in the Listed EquinITy Powered By Garmin Fillies´Stakes Registered As Michael Seely Memorial Stakes. Middleham Park’s daughter of Dark Angel was far from disgraced in the 1000 Guineas finishing just two lengths behind Aidan O’Brien’s smart filly Maybe.

Richard says: “Lily's Angel came out of the QIPCO 1000 Guineas fantastically well and is in great order going into today’s race.  She's got to give three pounds to her rivals and if there's an improving one in there that will be tough but strictly on form she's the one to beat. She's in great, great form.”

Read Richard’s thoughts and views on all today’s Knavesmire team and our weekend runners in his exclusive column for sportinglife.com.....  Read it HERE

And don’t forget to tune in to Channel 4 once again this afternoon where you can hear Paul’s views on the final day of the Dante meeting as he sits alongside Jim McGrath and Johnny Francome. Paul is serving the second half of a two-day ban.

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