THE penultimate meeting of summer season arrives at Salisbury Racecourse on Friday (September 12) with an eight-race card on offer.

The action gets underway at 3.25pm with the Dick Poole Fillies’ Stakes – a Group 3 contest – before coming to a close at 7.15pm as a field of 11 tackle the class five handicap for three-year-olds.

Read below for a full rundown of the Salisbury card on Friday courtesy of Sporting Life.

Friday’s card kicks off with a bang with the feature race of the day (3.25pm), the Group 3 Dick Poole Fillies’ Stakes, worth a cool £25,520.

This is a highly competitive renewal in which marginal preference is for Awaken who holds the edge on the form of her excellent Albany second at Royal Ascot and can now make it 2-4 for trainer George Boughey.

Bella Lyra also has the form to play a part and heads the list of dangers having finished third in a listed contest at this track and also in a Group 3 at Ascot.

Race two (4.03pm) sees a field of 12 head to the start for the class four novice stakes over the mile trip.

Charlie Johnston’s Evanesco found a Group 3 event at Deauville too much last time but this fairly useful colt looks to have found a very good opportunity to get off the mark unless one of the debutants prove well out of the ordinary.

Andrew Balding’s Hard To Believe could prove the pick of those, a half-brother to Japanese seven furlong winner Day And night so is much respected on debut.

The vote goes to Eyes Front in race three of the afternoon at Salisbury (4.35pm), who travelled well for most of the way when third at Leicester last time and he is taken to strike here on his first run since being gelded.

Box Clever landed a course and distance maiden for the Jonathan Portman team last month and she is feared with further progress on the cards.

A selling stakes for two-year-olds over the six furlong distance is up next on the Salisbury card (5.10pm) and a small field of six will take it on.

Castrillo, trained by Archie Watson, stepped up on his debut display when landing a Chepstow maiden last month and, with the promise of better to come, he is taken to follow up in this seller.

Under The Twilight has gone close both starts subsequent to resuming winning ways at Windsor in June and, still on a fair mark, she makes plenty of appeal in race five at Salisbury (5.45pm) while race six (6.15pm) can go the way of South Shore Island for the Amanda Perrett yard, who has admittedly had plenty of chances already but the handicapper has thrown him a lifeline, eased 5 lb since finishing down the field at Sandown a fortnight ago, so enters the frame here.

The penultimate contest of the evening sees five runners tackle the mile and six furlong conditions stakes in class two (6.45pm) and this one looks tailor-made for the very high-profile Palladium, a previous German Derby winner who was sold for a huge €1.4 million and sent to Jumps trainer Nicky Henderson, but is now in the hands of flat trainer John Gosden and should be the class of this field and pick up £10,308 – a small dent in clawing back his price tag.

Finally, the card comes to an end at 7.25pm with a mile and a furlong handicap in class four (7.15pm) and preference in the finale heads the way of Typeface, who ultimately came up short when bidding for the hat-trick at Yarmouth, he lost little in defeat on that occasion and shapes as though well worth another try at this trip.

This will be Mapledurham’s first run over a mile and a quarter, with stamina highly unlikely to be an issue for this filly, she is feared most.

Salisbury selections – Friday

• 3.25pm – Awaken
• 4.03pm – Evanesco
• 4.35pm – Eyes Front
• 5.10pm – Castrillo
• 5.45pm – Under The Twilight
• 6.15pm – South Shore Island
• 6.45pm – Palladium