Musselburgh Racecourse raises the curtain on the six-fixture £1.2 million Sky Bet Sunday Series (SBSS) tomorrow (Sunday) with a seven-race card and a £200,000 prize pot.

All races feature on ITV 4 and the county track is hoping for a lively atmosphere after donating more than 5,000 free tickets to racing stakeholders and 1,000 free admission tickets to local residents.

Following Musselburgh’s opener, the SBSS visits Hamilton, Beverley, Pontefract and Haydock through the summer months, rounding off the popular series at Sandown on August 20.

In the £35,000 feature race, the Sky Bet Sunday Series Sprint Handicap, The Thin Blue Line, trained by Keith Dalgleish, bids for glory and hopes to go one better after he came second on the same card twelve months ago.

Carluke-based Dalgleish is also represented by Edward Cornelius, another course and distance scorer, in the five-furlong dash with Joe Fanning in the saddle.

In the opening Sky Bet Sunday Series 3YO Sprint Apprentice Handicap (3.45pm), Jim Goldie is double-handed with Shannon Watts-ridden Kelpie Grey and Cuban Rock partnered by Amie Waugh.

Charlie Johnston has made a flying start to the new season and he saddles Dark Points in the £30,000 Race To A Cure For MND EBF Novice Stakes.

Teenage riding sensation Billy Loughnane on is board Chealamy, a close second at Southwell recently, for Newmarket handler James Ferguson in the Sky Bet Sunday Series Fillies’ Handicap (4.45pm).

Out Of The Shadows, a winner just under three weeks ago at Wolverhampton, represents trainer Marco Botti, in trip  the Sky Bet Sunday Series 3YO Mile Handicap (5.45pm).

Gates open on Sunday at 1.30pm and the first race is off at 3.45pm. For more information and to book tickets visit www.musselburgh-racecourse.co.uk