IT'S Wetherby's showpiece meeting of the entire season this afternoon and BALLYNAGOUR is napped to play a starring role by landing the £100,000

bet365 Charlie Hall Chase.

One of two runners in the race trained in Somerset by David Pipe – he also relies on Dynaste – Ballynagour will be partnered by Noel Fehily as he lines up alongside six rivals, which include last season's Grand National winner Many Clouds.

Although he has been a fairly fragile horse to train, Ballynagour is a very talented one – as he proved last season when finishing second in two high-class races, most notably the Grade 1 Betfair Bowl at Aintree in April when he went down in a photo-finish to Silviniaco Conti, a previous winner of this race.

Ballynagour acts on soft ground, goes well fresh and is selected to come up trumps today.

Cue Card, former winner of the Grade 1 Betfair Chase at Haydock, may not be the horse he once was but he recently had a racecourse gallop at Wincanton to put him right for this and his trainer Colin Tizzard is more than hopeful that his celebrated chaser can make a bold show.

Menorah, successful 12 moths ago, deserves attention, as indeed does Many Clouds, who was beaten only once last season and who has an excellent record fresh.

The bet365 West Yorkshire Hurdle, also a Grade 2 affair, likewise features on this excellent card and could also have Fehily's name on it.

He rides ROCK ON RUBY, a former Champion Hurdle winner, who is now competing over longer distances. Twice a winner last season and runner-up to Jezki at Aintree in April, Harry Fry's gelding looks sure to go well.

The other main attraction on the card, and one which boasts Listed-race status, is the OLGB.com Mares' Hurdle in which STEPHANIE FRANCES should go well after chasing home The New One at Kempton recently. She will have a fitness edge over several of her rivals, who are reappearing after their summer breaks.

Also worth noting are the in-form ENNISTOWN (12.50) and the highly-regarded SOUTHFIELD ROYALE (1.25)

Newmarket's final gathering of 2015 is highlighted by a brace of Listed races., both of which could be won by North Yorkshire horses.

In the £37,000 James Seymour Stakes, TOP NOTCH TONTO receives the vote. Brian Ellison's stable star, a York winner in the summer, has run a whole host of respectable races in defeat, some of them in hotter company than he faces this afternoon.

Even allowing that he is forced to concede weight all round here, he looks sure to take plenty of beating under Ben Curtis, with the soft ground in his favour.

The Ben Marshall Stakes, which also boasts £37,000 in prize money, is fancied to be within the scope of SO BELOVED, trained by David O'Meara, who has a runner – Mondialiste – in the Breeders' Cup Mile in Keeneland this evening.

So Beloved has enjoyed a productive campaign, not least when bagging a major prize at Goodwood in late-summer.

Things haven't quite panned out right for this strong galloper on his last couple of outings but he should not be written off quickly. Andrea Atzeni takes the mount.

Richard Fahey, on the mark at this course yesterday with nap selection Miss Van Gogh, can follow up with WITHERNSEA, the mount of David Nolan in the Adams Ghostly Pale Ale Handicap.

The Musley Bank gelding ran a blinder to finish second in hot company at Leopardstown on his latest start last month and will appreciate this easy ground.