Harry Derham sends two runners on the 596-mile round trip to Newcastle

Liam Bramall

Published: January 27, 2025

Horse racing is in Liam's blood and his biggest passion is jumps racing. He can often be found at his favourite tracks; Chepstow and Cheltenham in the Autumn when the National Hunt action kicks off. In his own words: "I'm often referred to as a walking form book, a trait which comes in handy from time to time. My proudest tipping success to date was landing a whopping 682-1 accumulator at Epsom."

Simply getting a horse to the races is an expensive endeavour these days and it’s therefore worth taking note when a trainer sends runners on a particularly long trip. That’s the case on Tuesday with a couple of significant southern raiders to watch.

Harry Derham has made a bright start to his training career and is set to send two runners on the 596-mile round trip up to Newcastle, from his Berkshire base on Tuesday. The horses in question will be his first two runners there so far this season and he has a 50 per cent career strike-rate at the track. Check out our free tips page for daily content across British and Irish racing.

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1.20 Newcastle

Girl Of Gold needs to find a bit of improvement if she’s to get off the mark here, having finished fifth in two bumpers so far. The four-year-old is related to several winners over both codes and it’s likely that the best is yet to come. Fergal O’Brien’s £90,000 purchase Blue Betty heads the market and James Owen’s rules debutante Scavengers Reign is also popular in the betting.

Girl Of Gold

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1.55 Newcastle

Ascending Lark is our selection in this race and she forms one leg of our three-horse accumulator. This daughter of Great Pretender is unbeaten in two starts over hurdles so far and managed to do the job convincingly under a penalty at Huntingdon when last seen. An opening mark of 113 looks pretty reasonable on the evidence we’ve seen so far, although she does have a substantial absence to overcome. The yard are in need of a winner but a recent string of seconds suggests success is just around the corner.

Ascending Lark

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