Now in its thirteenth year, Britain's All-Weather Championships Finals Day is the focus of Good Friday at Newcastle, with prize-money exceeding £1 million cementing its status as Europe's most valuable all-weather meeting. It's not all about the cash, however, with the assembled races possessing the potential to occasionally host some of the prime members of the fraternity such as Highfield Princess (Night Of Thunder), City Light (Siyouni) and Sovereign Debt (Dark Angel).Picking out any potential Group 1 performers from this year's cast in the six tests is a tough call, but there are some obvious lads and lasses heading to the Tapeta bonanza. Tony Bloom and Ian McAleavy's €220,000 Goffs Orby Book 1 purchase Silent Strike (Mehmas), who is running for the ever-present Andrew Balding stable, and TBT Racing's Northern Empire (Night Of Thunder) who cost the same at Arqana Deauville August, are just two of a few exciting budding sprinters in the six-furlong All-Weather 3 Year Old Championships Handicap.“I have always thought of him as quite a smart horse,” Ed Walker said of Northern Empire. “Ashley Lewis takes a handy five pounds off and we think he will run a big race.”In the seven-furlong Fillies' and Mares' Championships Handicap, Balding also has the clear favourite Stateira (Persian King) who won January's Trial in the manner of a mare going places. Success here would make the Kingsclere trainer a full house of the Championships races as well as extending his tally as the raceday's most successful trainer. Amo Racing and Giselle De Aguiar's Carolina Jetstream (Pinatubo) could be her biggest danger, having looked such a threat on Dundalk's Polytrack.Those who have already been up near the top of the pyramid include Cheveley Park Stud's Chancellor (Kingman) and Amo and Giselle De Aguiar's 2023 Norfolk Stakes hero Valiant Force (Malibu Moon), who take part in the All-Weather Championships Mile Handicap and six-furlong All-Weather Sprint Handicap respectively.Chancellor, who was a TDN Rising Star presented by Haygard and favourite for the Champagne Stakes as a juvenile at the time of his withdrawal, retains the faith of the operation and the Gosdens. “Following on from wind surgery and a gelding operation, he has put together four nice performances over the winter,” the Stud's managing director Chris Richardson said. “We hoped he would win the Winter Derby and it was a shame he got touched off there, although it was another solid run. It looks very competitive, but the stiff mile should suit our horse and he goes there in good order.”Following the quartet of £150,000 contests, the final two on the card up the ante at £175,000. It is fair to say that the 10-furlong All-Weather Easter Classic Middle Distance Handicap and All-Weather Easter Plate Marathon Handicap over the extended two-mile trip of the summer's Northumberland Plate lack an unexposed older horse. For that kind of money, they are plenty competitive however, with Willie Mullins saddling the ex-Wertheimer blueblood Gaucher, a son of Frankel and Left Hand, in the former.The post Good Finals Day Is Here appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.