It’s been quite a year for Tim Easterby, who has scaled new heights on the scoreboard and who is plainly not finished yet.

No Poppy makes the trip across the Pennines from Easterby’s Great Habton base, near Malton, to contest the Paul Latham 50th Juvenile To Senile Nursery and is napped to clinch the spoils.

As tough as she is talented, No Poppy has proved a model of consistency this season and has seldom been to the races and not collected prize money.

A winner at Ripon three starts ago, she has since finished a good second on the same course, while at Doncaster’s St Leger meeting on her latest start, she was beaten only two lengths into fourth place by Eucharist in a competitive handicap.

No Poppy has been raised one pound for her latest performance, but she appears to remain on a decent mark and, with Duran Fentiman in the saddle, she is selected to provide Easterby with his 85th winner of the campaign, a best-ever score for the well-known North Yorkshire trainer, who ended up with 54 successes last year.

Piece Of Mind can win the opening Vale UK Maiden Fillies’ Stakes.

Runner-up in her last two starts at Epsom and Warwick, Richard Hannon’s juvenile is overdue a winning turn.

Opportunity is fancied to come knocking for her in a race which Hannon won 12 months ago with the useful Plume.

Leviathan should run well for Tadcaster trainer Tom Tate in the Frank Fitzgerald Handicap over a mile.

A Doncaster winner last October, Leviathan has been lightly-raced this term, but his third and latest run saw him chase home Navajo Chief, a performance which suggested his winning turn may be imminent.

The promising New Latin (2.45), trained by Mark Johnston, and Declan Carroll’s Beverley winner Cherri Fosfate (5.05), are two others to keep on the right side at a meeting where the ground is expected to be on easy side.

At Ascot, Polly’s Mark should go well in the featured £45,000 Princess Royal Transformers And Rectifiers Listed Stakes.

Game and consistent, Clive Cox’s filly ran a sound race over a mile and a half at Doncaster last time, only for her effort to peter out over the last couple of furlongs.

This ten-furlong trip could well prove ideal and Polly’s Mark should give a bold bid.

Joe Packet has good claims in the DJP International Handicap.

Johnny Portman’s sprinter won nicely at Sandown last time out, having previously finished fourth at Leicester to Colonel Mak, who franked that form by winning last Saturday’s Ayr Silver Cup.

Bramshaw is another horse worthy of attention in the Transformers & Rectifiers Handicap over seven furlongs.

Winner of his only start last season as a juvenile, Bramshaw, trained by Amanda Perrett and apparently held in high regard, has finished in the frame in both his outings this term.

His latest outing at Sandown, where he was narrowly beaten by Master Mylo, was a creditable one, especially as he still looked green and a little ill at ease on the turn. This straight course may suit him better.

Racing selections

Haydock.

2.10 Piece Of Mind, 2.45 New Latin, 3.20 No Poppy (NAP), 3.55 Mark Twain, 4.30 Leviathan, 5.05 Cherri Fosfate.

Ascot.

2.00 Miss Sinatra, 2.35 Reve de Nuit, 3.10 Joe Packet, 3.45 Polly’s Mark, 4.20 Bramshaw, 4.55 Switched Off.

Tomorrow’s other meetings: Wolverhampton and Worcester.

Today’s meetings: Fontwell, Perth, Pontefract and Wolverhampton.