UK Horse Racing Tips: Newcastle

LUCKY DEAL is developing into a really useful stayer and produced a career-best performance to slam Busy Street by three lengths at Chelmsford. He has been raised 5lb, which doesn't appear overly harsh, and with the runner-up going on to score subsequently, he reopposes on just 4lb worse terms. Busy Street pipped Stargazer in a thrilling finish here on January, but the latter is weighted to improve past his rival and ran with credit in a competitive little conditions race last time.
Prediction : 1st Lucky Deal 2nd Stargazer 3rd Busy Street

Purdey's Gift was disappointing on his final juvenile start at Salisbury but is bred to make a three-year-old, although Coup De Gold brings the best form to the table after a much-improved second at Haydock in the autumn, and he been gelded during the off-season. The bar isn't set too high, however, so EL MISK can make a successful debut. The son of Dansili is out of a mare who won a Group 1 over 1m3f in South Africa, and he has shown John Gosden enough to earn a Derby entry.
Prediction : 1st El Misk 2nd Coup De Gold 3rd Purdeys Gift

A fascinating match on paper, but it would be folly to oppose ALKAAMEL while he is in such red-hot form. Since being gelded and switching to handicaps and the all-weather at the beginning of the year, the son of Havana Gold hasn't looked back and made it three from three with a determined display at Wolverhampton. Kinver Edge is also improving at a rate of knots and shed his maiden tag thanks to a dominant display at Chelmsford. Five Helmets could be the one for third.
Prediction : 1st Alkaamel 2nd Kinver Edge 3rd Five Helmets

KODI DREAM let down favourite-backers over C&D last time but he has held his form well enough since a victory, also over this track and trip, at the start of February and he will be hard to beat again. Blazing Dreams has yet to get his head in front but his last couple of third placings here have hinted that his turn is near. Caramel Curves showed on more than one occasion last year that there are races in her, and Firsteen also has to be considered with fitness on her side.
Prediction : 1st Kodi Dream 2nd Blazing Dreams 3rd Firsteen

MARTINEO showed the benefit of a gelding operation when scoring over this distance at Wolverhampton, and he returned there to follow up over 7f. He has gone back to John Butler from Paul D'Arcy's yard since, but that shouldn't scupper his hat-trick ambitions. His stable companion Inaam has made the same move and will give him plenty to think about after almost supplementing his Wolverhampton victory at Lingfield. Athollblair Boy, Epeius, Duke Cosimo and Paddy Power are also respected in a competitive sprint.
Prediction : 1st Martineo 2nd Inaam 3rd Paddy Power

Klopp has strung together a sequence of near-misses since a 5f win at this venue but while she will be thereabouts once more, she might be vulnerable to a couple of less exposed sprinters. Primeiro Boy thrived during a busy first campaign, which he signed off with a Musselburgh success, and he has been gelded during the winter. MAGICAL SPIRIT has undergone the same operation, but has had just the three outings and his Beverley triumph over 5f in September suggested that he could be one to stick with in 2019.
Prediction : 1st Magical Spirit 2nd Primeiro Boy 3rd Klopp