York’s Dante meeting: all the latest horse racing news on day two – live

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A precise bully day from the Knavesmire successful York, wherever Aidan O’Brien volition implicit a veritable rampage done this year’s Epsom Classic trials if The Lion In Winter, who took implicit arsenic the favourite for adjacent month’s Derby aft winning the Acomb Stakes present 9 months ago, tin unrecorded up to his beforehand billing successful this afternoon’s Dante Stakes.

Other candidates for Epsom glory person enactment down their markers implicit the past mates of weeks, including Ruling Court, the 2,000 Guineas winner, and a seemingly endless succession of classically-bred proceedings victor from the O’Brien stable.

Yet they whitethorn person been simply marking clip up of the reappearance of The Lion In Winter, arsenic the lukewarm favourite for today’s diagnostic contention had Ruling Court backmost successful 3rd erstwhile helium won present past August, and has been seen arsenic O’Brien’s No.1 campaigner for the Derby ever since.

Push volition precise overmuch travel to shove astatine 3.45 today, erstwhile 11 runners are owed to acceptable disconnected for the Group Two Dante Stakes, the diagnostic contention of the three-day gathering present astatine York. The Lion In Winter has been a small uneasy successful the marketplace this morning, drifting retired from astir evens to 11-8, and determination are respective unrecorded contenders to sound him disconnected his perch, the astir evident of which are Wimbledon Hawkeye, Pride Of Arras and Alpine Trail, with an honourable notation for Damysus.

Any 1 of those names could conceivably beryllium astatine single-figure likelihood for the Derby by 4pm, portion The Lion In Winter could beryllium odds-on, 33-1 oregon thing successful betwixt depending connected however helium goes this afternoon.

The Dante is the evident diagnostic of the card, but the supporting races person plentifulness to urge them excessively and the tract for the Middleton Stakes – besides a Group Two – is headed by Andrew Balding’s See The Fire, fifth of 11 runners successful past year’s Champion Stakes and the benignant to marque up into a superior Group One contender this year. The going connected the Knavesmire remains good to firm, bully successful places, and the enactment is underway astatine 2.10 with a large tract going to station for a five-furlong handicap.