Our star duo have two selections for the evening card at Newcastle.
Racing betting tips: Tuesday October 1
1pt win Blue Force in the 7.30 Newcastle at 10/1 (Sky Bet - min 9/1)
1pt win Stallone in the 8.00 Newcastle at 6/1 (General – min 11/2)
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7:30 Newcastle – Class 6 (0-65) Handicap 6f
Blue Force won over five furlongs here here two starts ago, and his previous second to the unexposed My Awele at Southwell shows that he stays this far, so he’s not taken lightly if allowed to start close to his tissue odds, especially with his latest run at Beverley easy to ignore (yet to show much on turf and his extravagant action is made for the all-weather). Antony Brittain had a poor summer, but in the last week he has saddled a further two winners, at odds of 10/1 and 14/1 and this has always been the time of year to catch the Brittain horses, even when Antony’s late father Mel was at the helm.
Biggest danger is likely to come in the shape of Court Drive. A winner at Wolverhampton over 7f on debut, she’s run pretty consistently this summer and looked ready for the step back up to six furlongs after meeting trouble in running over the minimum trip here last time. Once she found daylight, she ran on strongly to grab third on the line, and the cheekpieces tried that day, which seemed to help her travel better, are on again. She looks sure to go close granted a bit more luck tonight.
8:00 Newcastle – Class 6 (0-52) Handicap 5f
Missmimi is the in-form one here, and she’s already shown a liking for Newcastle on her last three starts, with a win and two places, but she doesn’t strike me a one that’s wanting a drop back to five furlongs, only getting to the front late in the day last time. Maybe she’ll get away with it in this lowly company, but I’d not want to take too short a price to find out.
If you do leave her out of the calculations, it looks wide open. Stallone doesn’t win enough to be confident about but he’s capable if he fancies it, with a record at a straight 5f on the all-weather reading: 11464281521959 (4-14) improving to 1144113215 when racing over 5f on Tapeta in 0-55 or lower bracket.
He might well have needed his latest run here, but that 0-65 was a much tougher race than this in any case, and dropping markedly in grade, he is likely to take a bit of beating in his optimum scenario.
Preview posted at 1032 BST 30/09/24
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