Dante Festival tips: Day Two picks from Dave Nevison

We have a terrific second day at York to look forward to. Hopefully these three will run good races and give us a profitable half an hour before we can settle down to enjoy the rest of the afternoon!

If she comes on for her recent reappearance and gets the gaps Marine Wave can show herself well in. 

She should have won when she made her handicap debut in a similar race at the Ebor meeting and she looks to have an obvious chance on that running off the same mark here. 

Under this rider, she was denied any sort of run in the last furlong and a half and ended up getting through too late, losing out by a neck and a short head. The four-year-old has only actually won a maiden race, but she has run well in Listed company several times and been overfaced in Group company on occasions. 

Marine Wave clearly handles the track, goes well for Oisin Orr and there is little doubt her trainer Richard Fahey will be trying to be champion at York, as he always is.

She looks a very interesting runner away from York. 

Pawapuri has not run on the Flat since she was an improving middle-distance filly for William Haggas but she has since done very well over hurdles for Nicky Henderson and won a Listed novice event. She could still be very well treated off a turf mark of 84 here. 

Pawapuri disappointed on her latest start at the end of January, but that was the start of the period when the Henderson and his Seven Barrows yard was badly out of form and, in any case, she has been rested since so will be fresh and ready for this. 

She has the look of a horse who is being readied for a run in something like the Ascot Stakes at the Royal meeting and needs to get a raised mark to get in that. This race looks a perfect stepping stone.

I am sticking with this five-year-old, who I put up for two agonising defeats in big handicaps here last season. 

Point Lynas was beaten a head in both this race last season - when he didn’t lead - and at the Ebor Meeting where the gelding did try to make all in his usual running style. 

I have absolutely no doubt that his campaign will have been planned around races at this track and I am confident he will be ready for this (he won after a similar break on seasonal debut last year). 

From stall five he will definitely have the opportunity lead if that is the call and such a decision seems likely, given there are much slower starters around him.

With a little improvement potentially to come from his four-year-old year to his five-year-old campaign, he might hopefully be able to defy a 4lb higher mark and hang on to land this prestigious handicap this time around. 

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