The all-weather takes centre stage with a bumper 11-race ITV schedule - and there may even be a World Cup winner tuning in
Good Friday means the richly endowed All-Weather Finals card at Newcastle is at the heart of a bumper 11 races on ITV, with Lingfield's consolation card and one race from Chelmsford ensuring a relentless pace to the coverage across a three-and-a-quarter hour show.
Given that this is the original movable feast and that Easter falls late in the calendar, punters are faced with extra information about stable form that is not always available for this fixture.
Three weeks on from the Lincoln, we have a raft of horses who have been campaigned through the winter with this date in mind, colliding with the first pieces of information about which yards have been fast out of the traps on turf.
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