4:00 Newcastle, Northern Spirit – 1pt e/w 18/1 3 bookies 16/1 generally (4 places Unibet/Skybet) – WON
Has had just the three races to get his mark, and I thought that he was better than the final result in his last two races as he was keeping on well over a slowly run 5f here on his penultimate start. And then last time at Wolverhampton, after a slow start he was always playing catch up under a jockey who wasn’t bothered about pushing him on his final start before getting a handicap mark. That opening mark of 60 looks fair, and stepping up to 6f tomorrow fresh from his break, he looks overpriced.