THE first four horses home in the 2009 Totesport.com Summer Plate at Market Rasen could battle it out again at the Lincolnshire racecourse's showpiece event tomorrow.

Last year's race was won by Nostringsattached, ridden by champion jockey Tony McCoy, and the Jonjo O'Neill-trained nine-year-old is among the 44 entries for this year's event.

He will face competition in this year's £60,000 race again from last year's runner-up Keepitsecret, also trained by O'Neill.

Nostringsattached's victory ended a run of three successive victories for the Welsh training yard of Peter Bowen in the two-and-three-quarter mile race.

Bowen has six entries for this year's race, including No Panic, who was third last year.

Also entered is King Troy, who was fourth last year and is the highest-rated horse among the entries.

Elsewhere among the entries, jockey James Halliday could gain an emotional victory on board one of the leading fancies, Brooklyn Brownie.

The young rider is the brother of Tom Halliday, who died at the course in 2005. James, who enjoyed his first ever treble at Rasen last month, is also a former Tom Halliday Scholar, a scheme set up in Tom's memory to help develop young jockeys.

The in-form Brooklyn Brownie was second in the Summer Plate two years ago and was runner-up last month in the English Summer National at Uttoxeter Racecourse.

His prospects are enhanced by conditional jockey James lifting a useful five pounds off his back.

With a total of £140,000 in prize-money on offer, tomorrow is the richest racing day of the year at Market Rasen.

And with bumper crowds expected for the meeting, which is also Ladies' Day, it is one of the biggest sporting events of the year in the county.

Pip Kirkby, the racecourse's managing director, said: "Once again, this is a splendid set of entries for our showpiece race of the year.

"We are always well supported by jump trainers across the whole country, and our valuable prize-money is another incentive to run."