SALISBURY Racecourse today hosts its second fixture of the year following its successful start on Sunday, May 4, when more than 9,000 people flocked to the Nether-hampton venue.

The sun shone as favourites dominated the meeting, winning six of the seven races.

Today's feature contest is the £15,000-added Port-way & Indesit Fillies' Rated Handicap over a mile and a half at 3.55pm.

This is a new contest for fillies and mares aged four and older rated 0-95.

The opening event at 2.20pm is the £8,000-added West Berkshire Racing Club Maiden Fillies' Stakes over a mile and a quarter which has attracted so many entries over the last four years that it has divided into two contests, creating an extra event in the process. If this is again the case, the extra event is likely to start at 1.50pm.

In 2002, division one went to the Henry Cecil-trained Succinct, who made all to defeat Lookalike by five lengths. This wide margin victory proved to be no fluke as the filly justified favourit-ism in a Listed event at Newbury on her next start.

The race programme finishes at 5.05pm with the £8,000-added Tryon Handicap over seven furlongs.

Last season this race was won by Eurolink Zante, trained by Tim McCarthy, who belied his odds of 16-1 to respond well to jockey Eddie Ahern's urgings, beating Uhoomagoo half a length in a tremendous finish.

The £6,750-added Knights & Co Maiden Stakes (2.50pm) is a five-furlong contest for two-year old maidens.

The Richard Hannon-trained One Last Time made a winning racecourse bow last year and subsequently came second to Revenue in the Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot.

In 2001 this juvenile event was won by Doc Holiday, trained by Brian Meehan, who later finished third to Johannes-burg - the top two-year-old in the world that year - in the Group One Middle Park Stakes at Newmar-ket. He then fetched 135,000 guineas to race in the USA.

The fixture's other two races are the £5,250-added Dutton Gregory Handicap (3.20pm) over six furlongs and the £5,250-added Steve & Mandie Yallop 10th Wed-ding Anniversary Claim-ing Stakes (4.30pm).