There is all-weather action at Newcastle on Friday evening, with the Gosforth Park venue staging a bumper nine-race card.
Racing gets underway at 16:25 but the two divisions of the seven-furlong handicap, which take place at 19:30 and 20:00, are the meeting’s highlights.
Newcastle Tips – Friday 19 October, 2023
17:00 – Spritzin’ @ 10/1
There’s an intriguing staying handicap over two miles taking place at 17:00 and it could pay to side with unexposed three-year-old Spritzin’.
Sir Mark Prescott is a trainer that excels with stamina-laden horses and the daughter of Sea The Stars looked another off the production line when running an excellent second over an inadequate trip at Pontefract on her seasonal debut in July.
Things haven’t progressed in four runs since that effort, but there have been valid excuses on each occasion.
Spritzin’ was held up off a slow pace in a small-field handicap at Chelmsford on her penultimate start and was never able to land a telling blow while the ground may have gone too soft for her over two furlongs further at Pontefract last time out.
However, Prescott’s charge remains unexposed and she should go well at a nice price on Friday evening with the long straight likely to play to her strengths.
20:00 – Slippin Jimmy @ 13/2
Slippin Jimmy’s form figures at Newcastle reads 243712 and Richard Fahey’s gelding looks set for another big effort at the Gosforth Park venue in the seven furlong handicap at 20:00.
The three-year-old ran a cracking race to finish second to a well-handicapped rival over course and distance last time out and that effort suggests a win shouldn’t be far away.
The handicapper has nudged Slippin Jimmy up a pound for that one-and-three-quarter-length defeat to Eldrickjones 31 days ago, but the three-year-old could well have more to offer at a track that clearly brings out the best in him.
20:30 – Lezardrieux @ 7/2
The final race on the card is a six-furlong handicap and it can go the way of the potentially well-treated Lezardrieux.
The Grant Tuer-trained six-year-old has plummeted down the handicap to a mark of 57 after some disappointing runs on the turf, but he may be seen in a better light switched back to the all-weather.
Lezardrieux finished second off a mark of 65 over course and distance in May and more recently the six-year-old triumphed off a rating of 67 at Catterick.
Those runs are recent enough to suggest that all the ability remains intact for Tuer’s charge and he may be able to send punters home happy.
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