5:55 Newcastle Tips

The beaten favourite over a mile here last time out and will welcome a likely fast pace dropping back to 7 furlongs.

Benacre is a gelding whose better recent form has come over this sort of trip on the all-weather, including a Newcastle effort where he moved smoothly through the race and stayed on strongly without everything falling right. He has shown he can operate effectively at this level when allowed to build into the contest rather than being rushed early. With conditions again in his favour, there are sound reasons to expect him to be competitive and in the mix late on.

Against some vulnerable opposition, I can see this getting a good toe into the race and certainly hitting the places minimum. Each-way double with the above.