All eyes will be on Silva as she bids to complete the UAE 1000 Guineas and UAE Oaks double on Thursday but I strongly fancy the chances of DIVINE IMAGE to reverse that Guineas form and exact her revenge.

On the face of it, Divine Image has a mountain to climb to overturn that 9 3/4-length defeat by Silva, who ran out a deeply impressive winner for trainer Pia Brandt and jockey Oisin Murphy.

The French raider is clearly very smart and should have plenty more to offer, but there is no doubting that, unlike Divine Image, she enjoyed a near-perfect trip in the Guineas, a luxury unlikely to be afforded to her this time around having been drawn out in stall 10.

Another slight question mark surrounding Silva is this longer trip. For all that she is a previous winner over an extended nine furlongs at Deauville, that came on polytrack whereas the Meydan dirt is notoriously testing and could well sap the stamina reserves of this daughter of Kodiac.

Clearly, while she's very good there are reasons to be slightly cautious about her credentials on this occasions while the opposite can be said of Divine Image.

Charlie Appleby's Scat Daddy filly missed the kick badly in the Guineas, immediately putting William Buick on the back foot, and the pair faced a torrent of kickback as they tried in vain to fight their way back into contention.