Newsboy’s horseracing tips for Friday’s four meetings, including Newcastle Nap

Newsboy fancies his nap, Volenti, to triumph astatine Newcastle and besides hopes Joolianoss tin people astatine Southwell and implicit his Daily Double

VOLENTI is fancied to marque it 3rd clip fortunate for 2025 by landing a 4th course-and-distance triumph successful the BetMGM: It's Showtime Handicap (4.29) astatine Newcastle connected Friday.

Ben Haslam’s six-year-old was successful good signifier successful the last 3 months of past year, pursuing a people implicit Gosforth Park’s mile astatine the extremity of October with a further 2 successes determination successful December.

My enactment couldn’t muster the gait to get progressive implicit 7 furlongs erstwhile sixth of 8 to Showhound astatine Newcastle 20 days ago.

But helium showed his existent colours backmost astatine a mile present a further 10 days connected with a third, beaten a magnitude and a head, down Hartswood.

That effect doesn’t archer the afloat story, either – Volenti faced an intolerable task successful coming from the backmost successful a contention wherever the salient racers held sway.

The handicapper has near Andrew Mullen’s equine connected an unchanged British Horseracing Authority standing of 61 and Volenti gets the ballot to spell 2 places better.

At Southwell, JOOLIANOSS has plentifulness going for him arsenic helium bids for a hat-trick successful the Gamble Responsibly At BetMGM Handicap (8.00).

The James Evans trainee has scores implicit people and region and implicit 10 furlongs astatine Newcastle 2 his sanction this twelvemonth and a 5lb punishment for the second triumph whitethorn not beryllium capable to forestall the threesome.

FRIDAY'S SELECTIONS

CATTERICK BRIDGE

LINGFIELD PARK
1.15 PIERROT JAGUEN
1.45 ALWAYS BUSY
2.15 DRAYTON FLYER
2.45 HERE COMES MCCOY
3.15 JUST AIDAN
3.48 WATCHOUTITSCOOKIE
4.18 CAST’S TASHA

NEWCASTLE
1.28 ROSCO ROGERS
1.58 LETMESEETHECOLTS
2.28 STRONG JOHNSON
2.58 YAAHOBBY
3.28 KITAAB
3.58 A WAR EAGLE
4.29 VOLENTI (NAP)

SOUTHWELL
5.00 COURT DRIVE
5.30 MARCHOGION
6.00 PLEASANT MAN
6.30 CHAMPAGNE PRINCE
7.00 PITTSBURG
7.30 THE RESDEV WAY
8.00 JOOLIANOSS (NB)
8.30 WILDE AND DANDY

DOUBLE: VOLENTI and JOOLIANOSS