Shining Hour, who showed plenty of promise in defeat on her debut at Chester 12 days ago, can chalk-up her first success at Pontefract tomorrow.

The two-year-old, trained by Peter Chapple-Hyam who sent out a winner at Ripon yesterday, goes for the EBF Thorne Maiden Stakes and will have the invaluable assistance of Jimmy Fortune.

Shining Hour showed understandable signs of greenness at Chester, but picked up ground really well inside the final quarter mile and stayed on to some effect to finish a two and a half lengths runner-up to the more experienced Harryana.

That race was over five furlongs and tomorrow's step up to six furlongs should be ideal for Shining Hour to bid for major honours.

Agraba will be hard to beat in the Groundstaff Maiden Stakes.

Luca Cumani's filly failed by only threequarters of a length to get the better of Greenstone on her debut at Warwick. With that run under her belt and an extra two furlongs to travel tomorrow, she should go one better under Royston Ffrench.

The John Dunlop-trained Beryl can defy top weight in the Armitage Memorial Handicap.

The Sussex raider showed a good attitude when winning by half a length from Gold Lodge at Thirsk last month and clearly relished every yard of the mile and a half trip.

Over the same distance tomorrow, Beryl can double her score under Gary Carter.

The highlight of Goodwood's televised meeting is the £32,000 Compass UK Leisure Predominate Stakes, the final traditional trial for the Derby, which has a very murky look at the moment following a flood of inconclusive big-race clues.

Perhaps the picture will become clearer once Dubai Millennium struts his stuff in this ten furlongs Listed event.

Trained by Saeed Bin Suroor for the Godolphin team, Dubai Millennium won his only race as a juvenile last season and came through an easy task with the minimum of fuss on his reappearance at Doncaster.

Highly-rated by his connections, he is strongly touted for this event, and a stylish success will see him Epsom-bound on the first Saturday in June.

The Chichester Festival Theatre Handicap looks a good opportunity for China Red to repeat his success over this course and distance last season.

John Hills' charge underlined his well-being with a pillar-to-post victory at Lingfield recently and is again likely to attempt front-running tactics.

Also worthy of attention is Ten Kingdoms (2.55), who is napped to make a successful handicap debut after an eye-catching run at Windsor recently.

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