Saturday's Horse Racing Tips: James Boyle's Best Bets At Newcastle

For today's horse racing tips, our analyst James Boyle looks at the All-Weather racing at Newcastle, with three selections now online.

As always, you’ll find the most up-to-date odds at the best horse racing betting sites, but our tipster’s predictions are researched early in the day and those prices could soon be moved in by the betting public. Odds stated are correct at the time of publishing.

Running P/L for the 2025/26 All-Weather Season - 7.00pts staked, 0.00pts returned; -7.00pts.

15:30 Newcastle – The English Rogue – 1pt @ 11/1

I’m going to take a chance on The English Rogue, who makes his handicap debut over 1m 2f having tackled 7f (twice) and a mile in his three runs for a mark, which didn’t work out too well.

He looks in need of a sterner test of stamina already and now that he’s getting it, he could take his figures to a new level. Granted, what he has done on the track hasn’t been brilliant, but there were hints of ability first time up and his following fourth behind Big Leader wasn’t a bad run.

What he produced a few weeks ago when backed into favouritism after a gelding operation was disappointing considering how strong he was in the market but it was over 7f, he may not have been as fit as the market suggested and the application of a tongue-tie hints at a breathing issue.

A hood goes on as well, which will hopefully help him to relax, and I think there’s a fair chance we’ll get to see what he’s really capable of doing. There’s plenty of wishing and hoping when it comes to backing him, but any of the double-figured quotes on offer seem worthy of the risk to me.

18:10 Newcastle – Stirrup Cup – 1pt @ 16/1

Stirrup Cup didn’t fire at Pontefract last time but it’s not the first poor run on his slate at that track and there’s a chance he’ll be able to show some more this time around.

We have no idea about his All-Weather abilities given that his sole run on an artificial surface came at 7f and he’s an out-and-out sprinter. He wasn’t in great form at the time either but stepped forward to bolt up over 6f at Hamilton on his next start when much stronger in the betting.

He should have followed up when dropped to 5f under a penalty a week later, going down by a nose after his challenge was delayed just slightly too long. On the back of those efforts, Pontefract was a step backwards but I don’t think he is able to get into a proper rhythm around there.

Newcastle should be suitable in terms of the nature of it, the question is the Tapeta. I don’t know the answer yet but he’s drifting all the time and I’m happy to find out where he stands at 16/1.

18:40 Newcastle – Mumayaz – 1pt @ 14/1

Mumayaz made no impression from the back of the field at Kempton when debuting for James Owen but was easy in the market on what was his first outing for a few months.

He went without his usual tongue-tie, in which seven of his eight career wins have been achieved, and it’s back in use today. Hopefully that’s a signal that better things are being expected.

In an ideal world, he’d be racing around a bend but the sole time he tackled this C&D, he won and snapped a long losing run in the process. As long as they don’t crawl up top, I think we’ll see him taking a jump back towards his better level and it may be enough to trouble all of these.