Esyoueffcee - named after the initials of Sunderland United Football Club - will bid to promote herself to the premier league at Doncaster tomorrow.

The Mick Easterby-trained juvenile goes for the £40,000 Rothmans Royals May Hill Stakes and victory will earn her a tilt at next year's Sagitta 1,000 Guineas.

Esyoueffcee takes a big step up in class following her latest outing at Beverley, but there was no mistaking her auEthority on that occasion.

She crossed the line five lengths to the good, a margin which could easily have been doubled had jockey John Carroll not eased her down well before the line.

Easterby is optimistic that Esyoueffcee will make the grade in high-quality races. Tomorrow is her chance to shine.

David Brotherton, who lives at Whitwell, is a steward at several northern courses, including York, but he will be wearing a different hat tomorrow as Nap selection Astonished carries his colours in the Kyoto Scarbrough Stakes.

Home-bred by Brotherton from his remarkable mare Indigo, Astonished, trained in France by John Hammond, won the Portland Handicap at this meeting last year.

Winner of three of his four races this season, all Listed races in different countries, Astonished can underline his ability by adding to his tally here. Jimmy Fortune has the mount.

The Great North Eastern Railway Doncaster Cup is likely to be a tactical battle, and it would not surprise me to see the Hills family from Lambourn take the honours.

Trainer Barry Hills runs Rainbow High, the mount of his son Michael, while Dominant Duchess is trained and ridden by two of his other sons, John and Richard.

Dominant Duchess is three from three this year and is taken to inch out Rainbow High, narrowly beaten by Royal Rebel at York last month.

French Fellow looks sure to give Tim Easterby a good run in the G.N.E.R. White Rose Park Stakes, but my preference in this Group 3 contest is for Swallow Flight.

Michael Roberts' mount will appreciate this return to a mile after being found wanting for speed over seven furlongs at Goodwood last time when third to Observatory.

Tough and consistent, Swallow Flight is also a previous winner over this course and distance.

The Play Scoop6 Sceptre Stakeslooks a good opportunity for Littlefeather, who underlined her well-being when chasing home Vision Of Night at Newmarket a fortnight ago.

TOMORROW'S TIPS

Doncaster

1.30 Astonished (Nap), 2.05 Swallow Flight, 2.35 Esyoueffcee, 3.10 Dominant Duchess, 3.40 Littlefeather, 4.10 Specific Sorceror, 4.40 Pips Magic.

Chepstow

1.45 Clearing, 2.15 Dubai Seven Stars, 2.45 Hormuz, 3.20 Shair, 3.50 Boulder, 4.20 Super Monarch, 4.50 Benzoe.