Prix de Diane Longines

The Poule d'Essai des Pouliches form stands head and shoulders above anything else here. I have it above average for the race. Silasol's Boussac win was a slowly run substandard event and all she proved last time is that she can also win slowly run races from the back as well as from the front.

If either of the front 2 in the Pouliches can replicate that form today then it would be more than good enough to take an average running of this race. Flotilla beat Esoterique fair and square at Longchamp, and with Flotilla seemingly doing her best work at the finish I can see why she's fav over this longer trip. However, I don't think the trip will be any problem for Fabre's filly and even though she had no answers to Flotilla last time I think she's the better future prospect and more likely to run her race today.

She's better than last year's Pouliches winner, Beauty Parlour, who narrowly failed in this last year. She's also much better than Fabre's last winner of this, Golden Lilac. I reckon she has an odds on chance today.