Newcastle Placepot picks: Paul Kealy has a crack at the £100k guaranteed pool

The opening 1m2f handicap (3.45) at Newcastle looks wide open, but was a very easy winner here last time and is only 2lb higher under a 5lb penalty, as she was due to fall in the handicap before her win.

She goes in with , who has been running very well in competitive heats at Dundalk this winter.

With Hugo Palmer in such good form Heretic will be well fancied for the mile handicap (4.15), but he has to improve off his opening handicap mark and and , fourth and seventh in a better race last time, are preferred.

In the next (4.45), The Angelus Belle is forecast to be favourite but she's actually only gone up 1lb for her win last week and has to run under a 6lb penalty here.

can go close if fit after a short break, while Champagny was only a length behind The Angelus Belle last time after an awkward start.

We've got to get the winner of the next (5.15) and while Glorious Angel is on a hat-trick, it's unlikely she'll go up to the mark she has to run off here when reassessed, so I'm leaving her out.

, whose last run was a career best, is preferred, with going for Roger Varian, who has a good strike-rate here.

ought to be hard to keep out of the frame in the fifth (5.45), but there are plenty of dangers and is surely one of them.

That just leaves the last (6.15), and Irish form suggests he has been found an easy task on his debut for Harry and Roger Charlton.