Dave Nevison's Midlands Grand National tip and more
By Dave Nevison
Last Updated: Fri 13 Mar 2026
Cheltenham may be over for another year but there is a stack of good racing at Kempton and Uttoxeter on Saturday. Our betting expert, Dave Nevison, marks your card.
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1.50 Uttoxeter: Below The Radar
Below The Radar is hardly well named these days but he won at this meeting in 2024 as a novice and ran well here again last season.
Paul Nicholls has him in good form for his return to this meeting and he should go well again.
This is his trip and he certainly won’t mind if the ground softens up as it often does on this day (rain is forecast and he won here on heavy). Freddie Keighley has been on board for both recent placed efforts.
2.25 Uttoxeter: A Pai De Nom
A Pai De Nom has been improving all season, winning over a variety of trips, and he took another step forward when stepped up to 3m last time out.
He was well backed when not hard pressed to win at Newbury last time out and showed that he can handle a real slog, which is often what transpires at Uttoxeter.
The handicapper has not overly punished him, raising him just 5lb for the latest success.
2.40 Kempton: Double Powerful
After a best forgotten attempt at being a steeplechaser Double Powerful did me a big-priced place favour when staying on at a respectable distance behind a very much on song Iberico Lord in the Lanzarote over this course and distance.
The slower pace on a shaper track didn’t suit him as well when running just respectably at Musselburgh last time but back at Kempton in a race set to be run at a very strong pace Double Powerful bids for his first win since landing a seven timer two seasons ago.
3.00 Uttoxeter: J’Arrive De L’Este
This is the richest handicap of the week so it is possibly no surprise that this Emmet Mullins-trained runner missed Cheltenham to come here instead of the Cross Country, for which he would likely have been favourite.
J’Arrive De L’Este has been a beaten favourite at Cheltenham twice already this term but things went far from perfectly on both occasions.
He made a couple of shuddering errors on his first start and then he made his move too early and the saddle slipped last time.
He might have won both and given he has already won five steeplechases in France he looks capable of better, especially over a marathon trip such as this.
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