JOCKEY of the moment Seb Sanders remains on course to top his best tally of 123 winners in a year, a feat achieved in 2002.
Sanders has already racked up over 90 winners this year and was seen to particularly good effect aboard Pivotal Point in the £100,000 Stewards Cup at Goodwood on Saturday.
And the rider can edge closer to three figures by riding at treble at Carlisle's evening fixture aboard Aurelius, Pure Folly and Leopard Creek.
Sir Mark Prescott's Aurelius won't be much of a price but this progressive filly will appreciate the step up to a mile and a half and will be hard to beat on her reappearance in the Coors Brewers Handicap.
Prescott, who has a strike rate of over 30 per cent in recent weeks, can provide Sanders with another winner in the shape of Pure Folly in the Bank Of Scotland Classified Stakes over seven furlongs.
The daughter of Machiavellian shaped well after a break at Lingfield last time and looks sure to appreciate the step up in trip.
She's bred to go on quick ground and is open to plenty of improvement.
Sanders has a tougher task aboard the quirky Leopard Creek in the Lloyd Mini Handicap over six furlongs but she should be suited by the return to this trip and the visor she ran poorly in last time has been left off.
Pepper Road is a consistent sort who likes it at the Cumbrian venue and he's taken to notch his second win in his last three starts in the Red Mills Irish Horsefeeds Lady Amateur Riders Handicap over a mile.
This firm ground course and distance winner in June ran well over seven furlongs last time, did nothing wrong in defeat and will relish the return to this longer distance.
Sanders can also be on the mark at Ripon's afternoon fixture aboard David Barron's Imperial Sound in the BBC Radio York Sandie Dunleavy EBF Novice Stakes over six furlongs.
The juvenile had his limitations exposed in a valuable sales race at Newbury last time but he'd previously shown more than enough to suggest he could go well under a penalty in this type of event.
Sanders rides Danehill Stroller in the Armstrong Memorial Rated Handicap over six furlongs but preference is for William Haggas' Bygone Days, who looks a bit better than the bare form of his last two starts.
He fared the best of those that raced on the far side at Newmarket on his penultimate start and again shaped well in a race where the leaders didn't come back at Newcastle last time.
He's worth another chance, especially from the plum stall one draw.
At Windsor, Milton Bradley's High Ridge, who is a consistent sort who is at the top of his game at present, gets the nod in the Come Racing This Sunday Handicap over six furlongs.
The five-year-old is holding his form really well, he knows how to win and ran right up to his best when second to Merlin's Dancer over this trip in a competitive Goodwood handicap last week.
Loch Inch is well drawn and looks the one to be on after a couple of solid efforts under ideal conditions in the Sponsor A Race At Windsor Handicap over the minimum distance.
* George Duffield will see a specialist as he bids to get to the bottom of the shoulder problem that has seen him spend the last four weeks on the sidelines.
However, the weighing-room veteran stressed that he has no plans to hang up his boots.
He said: ''I am not planning to retire. I am physically very fit, but the problem is my shoulder - I just can't get it right for whatever reason.
''It has been a month now since a horse reared over with me in the stalls at home and threw me out of the back doors. I landed on my shoulder and it just hasn't been right since.
''I have had X-rays done on it and there were no fractures or broken bones. I went to see a physio and he said I should be back in a week - but it has been a month now.
''I rode just a single horse one morning and I was like a one-armed man, which just isn't like me. There just wasn't enough strength in the right shoulder.
''The Jockey Club doctor, Dr Turner, has arranged for me to see a specialist in York and I'll see what he comes up with."
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