Silky Wilkie is after more course success as the Flat season in Scotland gets underway with the opening Sky Bet Sunday Series card at Musselburgh.

The Karl Burke-trained speedster has a nice high draw and is among a maximum field for the featured sprint handicap on a fixture worth £225,000.

“He won last year’s Scottish Sprint Cup on his only previous visit so the track certainly holds no fears for him,” Burke said.

“He’s also had a few runs ready this year so this would be a nice prize to win.” Zarzyni, a course and distance scorer from 2022, rarely runs a bad race at the East Lothian venue for father and daughter combination David and Nicola Barron. 

Jim Goldie is triple-handed in the opening class 4 sprint event. Of the trio, Paul Mulrennan has elected to ride American Affair, who was an unlucky third at Ayr last September.

Pallas Lord was in screaming form on the all-weather during the winter and Donald Whillans will be hoping he can reproduce some of that success on turf in the mile handicap.

“He had a fantastic winter and won five times at Newcastle between January and March,” his Hawick trainer reported.

“This is good money so it is worth having a crack as he also has decent form on turf.”

The mile and a half handicap sees a rare course runner for Newmarket handler Harry Eustace in the shape of his top-weighted filly Plus Point.

She is one of the market principals having been raised just over a stone for her back-to-back wins at Newbury and Brighton last season.

The three-year-old mile handicap is pretty open and a case can be made for Individualism as this half-brother to Group1 victor Subjectivist tackles a new trip.