HAYLEY TURNER, one of the brightest young stars in the weighing room, gets another chance to shine aboard Aberdovey (2.40) at Thirsk this afternoon.

Crouched low and aerodynamically near perfect in the saddle, Turner's quiet style quickly switches to an assassin's touch once the whips are raised and the winning post comes into sight.

Landing a trademark killer late blow on Aberdovey in the Stoy Hayward Fillies' Stakes will be to the forefront of her mind and, considering the manner in which the selection bravely battled when narrowly denied at Yarmouth recently, the partnership are no back-numbers for the spoils.

Another up-and-coming apprentice jockey attracting plenty of plaudits during the past month or two is Greg Fairley, seen to excellent effect by booting McEldowney (3.15) to victory on each of the gelding's last three starts.

Even though McEldowney has shot up the ratings as a result of his scintillating hat-trick, he's improving at such a rate of knots that a four-timer surely beckons in the feature event on the card, the mile-and-a-half Hambleton Cup.

Fairley's boss, the irrepressible Mark Johnston, will be on duty at Newmarket seeking to bag a brace of Group race triumphs with Prince Of Light and Bandari.

The two-year-old Prince Of Light (2.55) takes a quantum leap in class from Nursery Handicap scorer to the Group 3 Sirenia Stakes, however the way he won at the prestigious Ebor meeting suggests it's not an impossible ask.

Bandari, by contrast, is a seasoned pattern race performer, his latest high-profile success coming in Royal Ascot at York's Hardwicke Stakes. The Hamdan Al Maktoum-owned six-year-old has been guilty of inconsistency throughout his career but when on song is a devilishly hard individual to pass when the chips are down.

The appearance of Day To Remember (1.45) in Haydock's Old Borough Cup is a signal as far I'm concerned to lace up the old betting boots and have a serious tilt at the ring.

After a profitable 2004, Ed Vaughan's representative has been very slow to come to hand this term but at least it's easy to forgive his York run when the field went no gallop, which meant the contest turned into a farcical three-furlong sprint.

Despite the fact that Godolphin's powerful operation took an age to shift into top gear, their horses are now making up for lost time by mopping up a succession of lucrative prizes.

With Reason (3.55) is a typical example of the quality of firepower they've kept under wraps until today, when he makes a belated reappearance in the Listed William Hill Superior Mile.

Significantly from a punting point of view, With Reason took the money in the same race precisely 12 months ago, a repeat of which looks on the cards in the valuable £35,000 affair.

Using an identical winner-finding strategy, would-be backers hoping to top up the kitty before the majority of the afternoon action gets under way might be tempted to risk a few quid on Folkestone-bound Shamwari Fire (2.05).

The Ian McInnes-trained five-year-old is by no means a world-beater, yet there is always a race to be won with him during the course of the year and he's been targeted specifically at the Invicta Motors Banded Stakes, an event Shamwari Fire captured emphatically in 2004.

* Peter Makin is hoping to run Pivotal Point in the Group Three Igloos Bentinck Stakes at Newmarket on October 14.

The five-year-old has not raced since finishing last in the Darley July Cup and has not won since capturing the Diadem Stakes last October.

Makin said: ''If the ground stays good to firm there's a Group Three at Newmarket on October 14 and I might try and get him there."

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