Tim Easterby and his team have joined the runners and riders for this year's Sky Bet Go Racing In Yorkshire Summer Festival Tipping Challenge.
The Malton-based handler is a regular visitor to the winners' enclosure during the eight-day extravaganza and will now be given a £100 daily charity bet to try and raise money for the Injured Jockeys Fund, Yorkshire Air Ambulance and New Beginnings, the Yorkshire-based racehorse retraining charity.
Since it started in 2012, the challenge has raised over £35,000 for the trio.
It's a much-needed boost to the field after Ed Chamberlin and Oli Bell embarrassingly drew blanks in the 2017 renewal - but have controversially been invited back despite many-a-protest.
At the other end of the 2017 table Team David O'Meara edged out Team Mark Johnston to lift the prestigious prize. Both return to the fray along with Richard Fahey's Musley Bank squad.
Also a team for the first time is Sporting Life - with both Ben Linfoot and Matt Brocklebank required to prop up David Ord who has yet to win the competition despite entering every year and doing the scoring. He has a Timeform squiggle but has reportedly undergone wind surgery over the winter.
Alex Hammond and Jim McGrath are other regulars who are back for more while Michael Shinners returns to tip Kiwi Bay at Redcar on Sunday for the seventh successive season.
