By Chris Phillips, PA
Night Raider can launch his season in style with victory in the 1895 Duke of York Clipper Stakes.
The four-year-old all-weather specialist returns from a 179-day absence on the Knavesmire and switches back to the turf, having signed off last season with victory at Kempton before going on to win the Golden Rose Stakes at Newcastle.
Karl Burke will be hoping his charge can transfer his all-weather form - where he is four from four - to the turf and break his duck on the surface before bigger targets await at Royal Ascot, where he holds entries in the King Charles III Stakes and the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes.
Smoken is bidding to maintain her perfect record in the Tattersalls Musidora Stakes.
The daughter of Too Darn Hot won on her racecourse debut at Nottingham in October before going on to take the Montrose Fillies' Stakes at Newmarket to end an unbeaten two-year-old season.
The step up to an extended mile and a quarter should not pose a problem for the Ralph Beckett-trained filly and serve as the ideal preparation for the Betfred Oaks next month.
Burke can get the meeting off to the perfect start with Almosh'her in the Sky Bet Race To The Ebor Jorvik Handicap.
The Sea The Stars colt broke his maiden at the first time of asking at Southwell in December when in the care of Charlie Fellowes.
He was beaten by just a head at Kempton when stepped up in trip to 11 furlongs but returned to the Sunbury circuit to win over a mile and a half.
Now switched to Burke, he can make his stable debut a winning one.
We Never Stop can complete a hat-trick for Kevin Ryan in the Churchill Tyres Handicap.
The four-year-old kept on well to win at Southwell in March before heading to Newcastle for All-Weather Finals Day where he held off Run Boy Run in the hands of Shane Gray to win the All-Weather Sprint Handicap.
A quickfire hat-trick is there for the taking for the son of Cotai Glory.
Ed Walker's Red Sand is another going in search of a hat-trick in the Conundrum HR Consulting Handicap.
Beaten into second on his racecourse debut over five furlongs, he then successfully stepped up in trip to six at Goodwood last May.
He was then off the track for nearly a year before demonstrating that he did not miss a beat when making a winning return at Wolverhampton last month and is taken to complete a treble.
Eightthreeone can go one better in the Sky Sports Racing Sky 415 British EBF Restricted Maiden Stakes at Bath.
Beaten just over two lengths earlier in the month, the gelding can make a swift return to the Somerset track a happy one by coming on for the run to get his nose in front.
Top tips for today’s UK meetings
TAB is betting on 5 UK meetings today. Here are the tips.
YARMOUTH: Race 1: 14.55 Luminare, Race 2: 15.25 Finbar&s Lad, Race 3: 16.00 Sunlit Uplands,
Race 4: 16.32 Beach Point, Race 5: 17.05 Another Abbot, Race 6: 17.42 Light Up Our Stars.
YORK: Race 1: 15.10 Almosh'her, Race 2: 15.42 We Never Stop, Race 3: 16.13 NIGHT RAIDER
(NAP), Race 4: 16.45 Smoken, Race 5: 17.18 Red Sand, Race 6: 17.55 Roy Lane, Race 7: 18.25
Papagei.
NEWTON ABBOT: Race 1: 15.19 Courageous Strike, Race 2: 15.50 Pink Eyed Pancho, Race 3:
16.22 Dancingontheedge, Race 4: 16.55 American Land, Race 5: 17.30 Paddy De Pole, Race 6:
18.05 Gateau De Miel, Race 7: 18.40 Robin Blue Breast.
BATH: Race 1: 18.00 Banana, Race 2: 18.35 Eightthreeone, Race 3: 19.10 Tuesdays Child, Race 4:
19.42 I Follow Rivers, Race 5: 20.12 Voix De Bocelli, Race 6: 20.42 Sneaky Blinder, Race 7: 21.12
Respiro Solitario.
PERTH: Race 1: 19.00 Lets Mingle, Race 2: 19.30 Schmilsson, Race 3: 20.00 Happy Index, Race 4:
20.30 Fathers Advice, Race 5: 21.00 Somptueux, Race 6: 21.30 Rickety Gate, Race 7: 22.00 Tread
Softly Now.
DOUBLE: Night Raider and Smoken (York, Races 3 and 4).
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