Inside Angle: Martin Dixon is sweet on a 20/1 chance

Such has been Zambezi Fix's consistency over the past four years that he's never dipped below a mark of 120 in Britain, until now that is, and in a race where I think plenty of the field arrive with questions to answer he's worth taking a chance on each-way at a big price. He’s 20/1 at the time of writing. 

He's very effective on soft ground and I think it will be more testing at Warwick than it has been for his past couple of starts, whilst this is a significant class drop as well having contested 0-150s on his last two outings over hurdles. 

Master Chewy's season has been a little disjointed but I thought there was enough in his reappearance effort under a big weight at Ascot to suggest he can still improve this season and I like the fact that he comes into this race fresher than the market leaders - Matata and Edwardstone - who had hard enough races in mid-January. 

Master Chewy had Matata and Libberty Hunter well behind him when an excellent second in the Maghull Novices Chase last spring and a fast-run race on a galloping track like Newbury will be tailor-made for him. Odds of around 8/1 at the time of writing look a bit too big in what is an open race. 

I felt some of the spark was back in Smarty Wild at Market Rasen last time on his second run back from a long absence, travelling well into contention leaving the back straight and ultimately not getting home over a testing three miles, and I'm hopeful he can get closer to his best form dropped back to an intermediate trip. 

He's as low in the weights as he's ever been over fences and perhaps this race will be a bigger target for him than some of the opposition who could have spring targets. 

Although there were elements of Navajo Indy's performance at Windsor last time that I didn't like - he raced very lazily early on - I thought that, ultimately, he ran a remarkable race to be beaten less than three lengths and that strongly suggested to me that he's still a well handicapped horse. 

First-time cheekpieces are an interesting addition and I expect after that last performance they could have a positive effect, whilst I'm certain going back to this more conventional track, where he won on his penultimate start, will be more to his liking. 

This looks set to be an attritional race which will bring his stamina into play and with most firms paying five places (some are offering 6 places) I'd recommend backing him each-way.