Barry Hills can enhance his already-impressive strike-rate at Ayr with Shakakhan in the opening EBF Kirkoswald Maiden Stakes on Monday.
The Lambourn trainer has had a stop-start season, with many of his best performers being struck down with a virus just as things were getting into gear.
But Hills is hopeful that things have turned the corner and he will be keen to get some winners on the board before the term is over.
Shakakhan looked most unlucky not to get off the mark on her racecourse debut at Pontefract last month, being trapped on the inside throughout the final stages and was not knocked about to finish a close-up fifth.
But that considerate introduction to racing can start to reap benefits at Ayr where Hills can improve upon a strike-rate that already stands at more than 30 per cent over the last five years.
Maromito has attracted plenty of financial interest on a couple of occasions this season without showing any worthwhile form until his latest start at the same Pontefract meeting.
Well away, he looked as if he could make all the running until he tired in the closing stages - perhaps finding Pontefract`s stiff finish in soft ground just too much - and was collared by Torrent.
But if that run heralded a return to form then he could look well treated in the Saffie Joseph & Sons Handicap, off a mark far lower than that from which he started the season.
If he gets a good draw on the rails, Maromito could make all and return to the winner`s enclosure for trainer Robin Bastiman.
Blusienka bypasses a host of engagements in more-exalted company - he could have run at Longchamp last weekend - to line up in the Arran Conditions Stakes.
And Gerard Butler looks to have found a fine opportunity for his charge to gain a confidence-boosting success.
Route Sixty Six can take advantage of a favourable-looking handicap mark in the Badger Classified Stakes at Leicester.
Rookie trainer Jedd O`Keeffe has been unlucky not to get off the mark with this four-year-old as twice he has gone into the lead in the final furlong only to get caught in the final strides.
But the trick is to put his head in front as late as possible as Route Sixty Six had a habit of getting beaten in exactly the same manner when with former trainer Gary Moore in Brighton.
And provided his jockey can carry out the tactics to perfection, O`Keeffe`s charge can oblige in a race restricted to horses rated 0-60 - at his peak he landed a £15,000 handicap at Newmarket last season off a mark of 77.
