Tuesday'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 two 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 - 2.00pts staked, returns TBC.

17:15 Newcastle – Eldrickjones – 1pt @ 9/2

Eldrickjones hasn’t been firing at his best level but he’s always tackling good handicaps and didn’t give the assessors enough of an excuse to apply much leniency. 

He’s getting that now, with his mark down by 5lbs for his last few runs, and I thought he performed reasonably when return to the All-Weather at Southwell a few weeks back.

It wasn’t great by any means but he ran the straight away from the main action and is better served by a stiffer test of stamina, which he’ll get now back racing at Newcastle.

As a four-time course winner, three over the 7f trip, it’s safe to say that he likes it here and whilst his recent form needs improving on, this looks like the right race for him to start showing more. If things go to plan in-running, I see no reason why he won’t be in the mix late in the action.

18:45 Newcastle – Dr Ali – 1pt @ 12/1

The morning market isn’t shouting too positively for Dr Ali but he was 50/1 when second at Southwell last time out and hopefully it’ll prove that he’s being wrongly overlooked again.

His latest performance came out of the blue following a couple of horror runs but he was happier back sprinting on an artificial surface. Taking the headgear off that clearly didn’t do much for him at Kempton a couple of weeks earlier did no harm either.

One of his best outings for this yard came over C&D on the sole occasion he made the 500-mile round-trip to line up here and returning from an 11lb lower mark this time makes him of interest.

There’s a reason for his falling mark, of course, but if that last effort wasn’t a false dawn, there may be a bigger spin in him under these conditions. I’m happy to chance the 12/1 on offer and based on the betting so far, even bigger prices will be up for grabs on the exchange later.