UK Horse Racing Tips: Newcastle

With a lack of recent winning form to call upon, Arranmore could go well for Micky Hammond after the nine-year-old won this last season by a head. He drops back into this grade and might prove the biggest danger to BALQAA, who finished fourth when failing to see out 1m4f at Pontefract but is a past C&D winner. Wicklow Way's sole win was here in March and he could make a challenge for the places.
Prediction : 1st Balqaa 2nd Arranmore 3rd Wicklow Way

St Helier set connections back 325,000gns as a yearling and he is one to watch in the market ahead of his first start, alongside Dark Angel colt Sonic Angel and Karl Burke's Royal Strike. SIOUXPERB has to give them 7lb after winning impressively at Yarmouth on debut before a lacklustre effort in the Coventry Stakes. Gelded shortly afterwards, if connections still harbour black-type ambitions then he ought to go very close in a race like this.
Prediction : 1st Siouxperb 2nd St Helier 3rd Sonic Angel

Stand Strong won this last year for Ewan Whillans off a mark of 55 and now races off just 1lb higher. Chambers battled on well to win over shorter at Nottingham and could be good enough to get involved, but TIME TURNER is preferred. Only beaten a neck into second at Hamilton last time, if he gets this trip at the first attempt he could make up into a nice stayer.
Prediction : 1st Time Turner 2nd Chambers 3rd Stand Strong

NANA'S BOY GEORGE gained a breakthrough victory at Wolverhampton in May and an 84-day break shouldn't prevent another bold showing. The Sioux Nation gelding has held his form this year and is the percentage call. Brave Traveller was not beaten far at Newcastle latest and rates best of the rest, while the potentially unexposed Taaklam holds possibilities on his best form.
Prediction : 1st Nanas Boy George 2nd Brave Traveller 3rd Taaklam

Having suffered from a wide draw when sixth at Beverley earlier this month, this could prove a suitable opportunity for REGINALD CHARLES to regain the winning thread. The six-year-old is a three-time all-weather winner and the majority of his rivals have something to prove at present. Jamaican Storm scored on his last visit to this track and he's feared most, ahead of the dropped-in-class Judicature.
Prediction : 1st Reginald Charles 2nd Jamaican Storm 3rd Judicature

A trappy handicap for punters to solve and it's certainly not a race for maximum stakes. TRAVIS gets what can only be described as a tentative vote on the basis that he's holding his form quite well and his Doncaster form behind Thapa VC was given a boost at Yarmouth earlier this week. Holly Mist is surely better than what she showed at Nottingham and Finn Ironside wouldn't be without a squeak either.
Prediction : 1st Travis 2nd Holly Mist 3rd Finn Ironside

NO NEWS displayed marked improvement when runner-up over this trip at Wolverhampton and is certainly worth siding with now eased into classified stakes company. Uncle Sam is no stranger to winning over C&D and cannot be overlooked in a race like this, while Ridgemaster is also a course scorer and he performed well for second in this company at Ayr two starts back.
Prediction : 1st No News 2nd Uncle Sam 3rd Ridgemaster