THE Blaydon Races return to Newcastle today in no uncertain fashion with a cracking card and over £100,000 in added prize money on offer.
The highlight is the Newcastle Exhibition Ale Blaydon Race, worth £29,830 to the winner, and as with most nurseries this 20-runner event appears extremely difficult.
The key to unlock this tricky handicap could lie in last Tuesday's Eglinton Nursery at York, as the first four home on the Knavesmire reoppose today.
At York, Pension Fund came out on top, beating Demolition Man a head, with Ninth Symphony a neck away third and Bolero Boy two lengths adrift in fourth.
Pension Fund is now 7lb worse off with those rivals at Gosforth Park so the form book points narrowly to Demolition Man.
The best bet on the card, now the rains have come, is Great Easeby in the Newcastle Sporting Club Handicap.
Fred Watson's gelding is without a win on the Flat this season but has finished runner-up four times and ran particularly well on his last two starts.
With easy ground forecast, Great Easeby can land the nap.
