Current favourite King Carney will obviously attract plenty of support with Oisin Murphy on board, but the six-year-old has a 2/24 record and is 0/10 on all-weather tracks.
He has placed in only one of his last 17 runs as he drops back in trip after being well-beaten on this surface last time.
Meanwhile, Copper Mountain put in an eye-catching display as she bounced right back to form over seven furlongs at Southwell ten days ago.
Had that race been over athe mile she will face on Monday night, then she may well have won because she was doing all her best work in the closing stages, finishing best of all and closing to within three quarters of the winner as the line approached.
19:30 (Newcastle) Copper Mountain
Only two of the first ten home have been out again since, but they have both advertised the form, with fourth-placed Brave Display, a nose in front of Copper Mountain, winning an 11-runner handicap comfortably over eight furlongs at that same track.
Meanwhile the seventh home, Daafy (over two lengths behind Copper Mountain), has since finished second of eleven in another handicap over that same trip.
After a 205-day break, that was a promising return for Copper Mountain, who is now facing lesser opposition, and back up to her optimum trip of a mile.
She looks handicapped to win because she is racing off the same mark she had for her last success, which was over this distance at Wetherby last April, a race in which she beat 11 rivals rated up to 64.
This is also exactly the time that Copper Mountain hit form on this surface last year, winning an 11-runner handicap over a mile at Southwell, beating rivals rated higher than here by a clear 3.25l, before then finishing runner-up in a 0-75 handicap over that same trip.
Joanna Mason, who has ridden Copper Mountain to all her best performances, is in the saddle again and a big run looks likely under ideal conditions.
Of the others, Pallas Lord looks the best option on the strength of his penultimate outing last month, when he finished a close-up third of 11 (beaten a length) in a higher-graded Class 5 handicap in which he ran off today's mark of 62.
The pair who beat him are now rated 73 and 71, which is well above today's standard, so a similar effort will see Pallas Lord in with a decent chance, although his yard hasn't had a winner on the Flat since he won at Redcar last April.
