It’s time to dust off the old form-book and try and remember your old bookie passwords as racing returns to the UK with a bumper card at Newcastle tomorrow, and we will have our lucky pin at the ready with the usual daily nap and yankee post in the morning.

Here’s hoping you have had a safe lock-down and are ready for what promises to be frenetic restart of racing, football and golf in the coming month.

As form book nerds, social distancing has come naturally, and we have spent the lock-down weeks carefully logging our past results for our newly revamped Our Results page, and you can pop over there is you want to see the details on what was an excellent 2019 and a fairly solid opening to 2020. Further past results (2017, nice..and 2018, not so nice…) will be added soon.

But for now its heads down in that Newcastle form – there are some interesting runners travelling all the way up from Newmarket in the south-east….now if there was only someone who knew the way to drive from the London area up to the north east……