And Saturday will see the first Gr 1 for the festival.

That's the Diane over 1800m turf for f&m with half the field to be saddled by Chad Brown who has won this seven times.  But will he saddle the winner?  Now that she has struck form we are leaning towards the champion Argentinian mare Didia, with Jose Luis Ortiz riding for Ignacio Correas.  Chili Flag took a while to acclimatise but now seems to have found her mojo and leads the Brown runners and will be ridden by the other Ortiz – Irad.

Whitebeam won this last year but that was not as favourite and she hasn't won since despite being up there.  Flavian Prat rides.

Two Brown roughies are Gina Romantica on 9/1 and Coppice 6/1 with Frankie Dettori riding but she's been well held by Chili Flag at their last two meetings.