Newmarket afternoon racing tips: Best bets for Tuesday, April 16

Three days of thrilling Flat-racing action are on offer on the Rowley Mile this week, so let's get some details on our five selected horses for day one at Newmarket, with a full set of tips from the eight-race card at the bottom of the page.

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(Please be aware selections could become non-runners after article's first publication)

 

13:20 (Newmarket) Hallasan

Hallasan is one of two interesting Godolphin newcomers in the British Stallion Studs EBF Novice Stakes and it must be noted that William Buick prefers this half-brother to four winners, with Group Three juvenile scorer Al Raya among those siblings.

 

13:50 (Newmarket) Tees Spirit

Adrian Nicholls is already off the mark for the turf season, which bodes well for the chances of Tees Spirit in the It’s Never Ordinary At bet365 Handicap.

After a brilliant campaign in 2022, in which he won five times, including the Dash at Epsom and a Listed race in Ireland, he went winless last season.

As a result, his mark dropped from 104 to 91, so if he has got his mojo back, he should go well.

 

14:20 (Newmarket) Grand Karat

Grand Karat impressed on more than one occasion last season.

Fifth of 10 on his debut at Newbury when 33/1, he was placed on his next two outings at Haydock and Kempton, latterly when a close second to the now 102-rated Orne.

Tom Marquand, fresh from another successful stint in Australia, is a notable booking and the JRA Handicap looks his off a mark of just 80.

 

14:55 (Newmarket) Slipofthepen

Slipofthepen was a winner of his first two starts before disappointing in a Listed event during May last year. Returns from a lengthy break but remains with potential.

Daysofourlives won two of his past three attempts including a success in latest, so could get involved.

 

13:20 (Newmarket) Hallasan

Hallasan is one of two interesting Godolphin newcomers in the British Stallion Studs EBF Novice Stakes and it must be noted that William Buick prefers this half-brother to four winners, with Group Three juvenile scorer Al Raya among those siblings.

 

16:05 (Newmarket) Kikkuli

Kikkuli is always going to struggle to live up to his exalted pedigree but he can kick-start his three-year-old season with a win in the Alex Scott Maiden Stakes.

He is by the super-sire Kingman out of the excellent broodmare Kind, who produced none other than Frankel.

That makes Kikkuli a half-brother to the likes of Sir Henry Cecil’s great horse, Champion Stakes winner Noble Mission and Bullet Train.

Now trained solely by Harry Charlton, as his father Roger has retired, Kikkuli caught the eye on debut when second in a November Newmarket novice contest.

Had he any other pedigree, it would have been judged perhaps more favourably, but the unbeaten winner subsequently went to France to score in Listed company and the third has come out and won, so the form is red-hot.

 

Newmarket tips in full:

NEWMARKET: 1.20 Hallasan, 1.50 Tees Spirit, 2.20 Grand Karat, 2.55 Slipofthepen, 3.30 Boiling Point, 4.05 Kikkuli, 4.40 Eye Of Dubai, 5.15 Our Havana.