ITV Racing Tips: Check out a host of naps for the Sunday Series at Pontefract

Tim Easterby's Highwaygrey is a four times course and distance winner and the six-year-old has proven extremely popular amongst our racing tipsters as a staggering seven of them have napped the 5/2 shot for the 16:15 contest at Pontefract today. He is a long losing run currently, but has duly been sliding down the handicap in recent outings and takes his chance off 76 this afternoon. The likes of Rory Delargy from The Irish Field and Ben Morgan from Racing Ahead are just two of the tipsters fancying Easterby's charge to return to winning ways and he's the most popular choice of the day.

William Haggas tasted notable success during Royal Ascot with Baaeed firmly cementing his place as one of the most exciting performers in the sport, but Haggas will look to taste Pontefract success today and saddles the 5/4 chance Bartzella in the 16:45 race, and that hot favourite has been napped by six tipsters. The Scout from the Daily Express and Newsboy from The Daily Mirror are just a brace of tipsters napping Bartzella, who has won three of her four starts and the daughter of Golden Horn looks hugely progressive.

Later on in the evening, Archie Watson's Corinthia Knight is another that has caught the eye of the tipsters with five racing writers napping that 9/2 shot for the 18:45 event, and the seven-year-old was a winner last time out at the track, so will be looking to record back-to-back wins.

It's a busy day for Easterby, who has a number of runners across the card, and he has some big priced runners taking their chance and the 18/1 chance Manigordo will take on the aforementioned Corinthia Knight in the 18:45 event, and that raider is the best bet of Matt Polley from the Ipswich Star, while in the same race Golden Apollo has been tipped up at 16/1 by Karl Hedley from The Irish Post.

With naps table leader Expert Eye heading to Hexham for the best bet of the day, the second placed Garry Owen from the Daily Record is hoping to bridge the gap with the long-time leader, and Owen is backing the 15/2 chance Aguaplano in the 18:15 race. Marco Botti's charge has been a real model of consistency of late notching up three second placed finishes and a victory, and that charge will attempt to continue the good form today and looks a leading player at an attractive price.

For those punters looking to kick of Pontefract's card on a winning note could be wise to side with the Sunday Express tipster's best bet which is Speriamo, who is a 15/8 jolly for the 15:45 event, and that charge built on a decent debut at Beverley by winning at Kempton, and the two-year-old looks to have the potential to improve again.