Leeds-based Marvellous Tea Dance Company are hosting a special marquee, where afternoon tea packages can be booked via the racecourse website, starting a £10 for a ‘Marvellous Cream Tea’ for two.

 The eleventh running of the Pipalong Stakes is sponsored by Wellingborough-based Weatherbys Group, a company which provides administrative and commercial services to the British racing industry. This race which should attract a quality turnout; past winners include Gifted Girl (last year), Law Of The Range, Off Chance, Red Bloom and Chorist.

 Sprinters take part in The King Richard III Handicap Stakes and The Dianne Nursery Handicap Stakes, both races contested over six furlongs. The 30th running of The King Richard III Handicap Stakes – offering prize money of £12,000 – commemorates the granting of a Royal Charter to the Borough of Pontefract in 1484 and the successful owner will receive a perpetual challenge trophy provided by Pontefract Civic Trust, while given the discovery last year of the Monarch’s remains in Leicester, The King Richard III Society are also hosting an event on Tuesday evening at St. Giles Church in Pontefract. The Dianne Nursery Handicap Stakes is one of the UK’s first handicap races of the season for two-year-olds.

 Tuesday’s meeting is also an opportunity for The Pontefract Sports & Education Foundation to raise funds, and this is reflected in the charity’s partners supporting the racing programme. The races concerned are The Hilco Appraisal Handicap Stakes (one mile and a quarter), The Colliers International Asset Advisory Handicap Stakes (for three-year-old sprinters) and The Pontefract Sports & Education Foundation (a contest for three-year-olds over one mile supported by ISS World).

 The giant screen, situated opposite the track, will show all of the action.