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All-weather bonanza on Tuesday with 226 runners at Kempton and Newcastle

Kempton: racing returns to the Sunbury track on Tuesday
Kempton: racing returns to the Sunbury track on TuesdayCredit: Edward Whitaker

A mammoth 19 races featuring 226 runners at Newcastle and Kempton on Tuesday will provide the action on the second day of the planned resumption to British racing.

For successive days a ten-race card is scheduled at Newcastle, while the first meeting in the south at Kempton will be a nine-race affair featuring Frankie Dettori, Ryan Moore and champion jockey Oisin Murphy.

Newcastle had initially planned an eight-race card but with 369 entries it comes as little surprise to see the two races confined to two-year-olds dividing, with ten 12-runner races now scheduled.


Newcastle Tuesday card

Kempton Tuesday card


Kempton boasted a whopping 450 entries for Tuesday's meeting with trainers keen to make up for lost time and the likes of Sir Michael Stoute, John Gosden and William Haggas field runners.

Each race bar one at Kempton is set for 12 runners, the maximum permitted under BHA guidelines as racing returns from a 76-day shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Dettori makes his comeback at Kempton on the Gosden-trained Galsworthy in the 1m4f maiden for older horses, while Moore makes his return to competitive action with four rides, including two for Stoute.

Murphy, on his travels to Newcastle where racing is set to resume on Monday, returns to the south for seven rides at Kempton on day two.

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