Five horses to follow on Saturday at Haydock, Punchestown and Ascot

Tipster: Ross Millar.

Best odds: 6-4.

Tipster: Danny Archer.

Best odds: 9-2.

The Ladbrokes 1965 Chase looks an absolute humdinger of a renewal, but Gidleigh Park makes plenty of appeal. Having been pulled up on his chasing debut due to a fibrillating heart issue, there was lots to like about his defeat of subsequent Grade One scorer Caldwell Potter at Windsor next time out, and he lost nothing in defeat when a cracking second to Impaire Et Passe at Aintree, despite a mistake at the second last.

He looks open to any amount of untold improvement again this year over fences, and this looks a nice starting point. I would like to see an improved jumping display, but they could go a ferocious gallop out in front, with both Il Est Francais and Pic D’Orhy perennial front-runners.

This could play to his and Jango Baie’s strengths in the finish, and whilst Gidleigh Park has led in the past, I think Bryan Carver will be happy to sit in behind, and pounce late.

Tipster: Johnny Ward.

Best odds: 7-1.

Tipster: Martin Dixon.

Best odds: 17-2.

Another exceptionally competitive race on this Haydock card, but if my belief that Navajo Indy is a horse crying out for a staying distance is correct, then he'll prove to be a good bet, in my opinion, at a general price of 17-2, at the time of writing. 

In 12 career starts, Tom Symonds' six year-old has never finished out of the first four, so his consistency is clearly a major positive, and several of those efforts have come in very strong handicaps, including when he somehow finished third in the William Hill Hurdle at Newbury in February, despite clearly finding the tempo of that two-mile handicap too strong before galloping on resolutely. 

He was upped in trip at Cheltenham on his return and ran well when second to the progressive French Ship. I just think that this step up to three miles will bring about more progress, plus the current stable form is as good as it's been for several years. 

Tipster: Andy Stephens.

Best odds: 5-4.

Twelve months on from an agonising defeat in the Betfair Chase, Grey Dawning returns to try and lay the ghost. 

He looked the winner for 95 per cent of the race 12 months ago and traded at 1.06 in-running on the betting exchange of the race sponsors. But then a combination of an error at the final fence, bottomless ground and the tenacity of course specialist Royale Pagaille contrived to defeat him. 

That gruelling encounter ended up impacting on the rest of his campaign, too, although he was a zestful winner at Kelso in March and he beat all bar Gaelic Warrior in the Bowl at Aintree. 

The winner of last season’s 2024 Turners Novices’ Chase (there may never be another) has at least 7lb up his sleeve according to the handicapper and represents a yard that can do little wrong. He takes on race fit rivals, but this has been on his agenda for some time, and you cannot imagine him being betrayed by a lack of fitness. 

In the 20-year history of the Betfair Chase, only one horse, the 157-rated Snoopy Loopy, has won with a rating of less than 160. Grey Dawning is the only candidate with a rating above 160.