Tim Easterby has his Habton Grange team in a rich vein of form right now and success this weekend could well see him smash through the £1 million in prize money for the sixth time in a distinguished training career.
Easterby stands perched on the £992,841 mark at time of going to press and his 87 winners so far leave him just six short of his final total of 94 winners of 2020.
There will the chinking of champagne glasses should Staxton, Music Society, Lampang or one of his other cherished sprinters lands the Great St Wilfred Handicap at Ripon on Saturday, live on Sky Sports Racing.
He also has a lively team lined up for next week’s Ebor Festival at York with Coolmore Nunthorpe contender Winter Power adding some star quality to the melting pot.
Tim kindly talked to Tony Elves of attheraces.com about some of his main prospects ahead of a non-stop agenda.