Saturday tips: Dave Nevison's four best bets

Jamie Snowden seemed to rekindle Farceur Du Large’s enthusiasm for jumping when training him to win both the Military races at Sandown earlier this year. 

However, the wheels fell off when he hit a fence very hard at Uttoxeter on his first run back in handicap company after that, and that incident appeared to also knock his confidence on his final start of the season. 

I am very hopeful that the in-form Snowden tea will have freshened up the nine-year-old and will have him focused on the fences once more.

I am also hopeful that the first run after a break may be the best time to catch Farceur Du Large, and I still believe he is potentially very well handicapped when compared with his Irish marks.

Unsurprisingly, Inthewaterside had a wind operation over the summer and if this has had the desired effect on the Paul Nicholls-trained six-year-old, he could well prove himself the best handicapped contender in this race. 

I have no qualms about fitness as this gelding has won first time out for the past two seasons and the Nicholls yard is in top form. 

The selection improved pretty much throughout last season and still looked to be improving when running well in the first time hood on his latest outing in April. 

ThIS trip seems ideal and, being lightly raced, Inthewaterside could still have considerable upside plus Cobden has presumably chosen to ride him.

I am a little late climbing aboard the Venetia Williams and Charlie Deutsch bandwagon, which seems to have started a few weeks earlier than usual, but Williams has forever been a trainer for the winter and her runners usually hold their form for at least a month, so I think she will have several more winners in the next few weeks. 

Victtorino is surprisingly still only six years old but is very experienced over fences, and is well up to this standard of handicap if back in form after being absent since March. 

He won in good style after a similar break last season and is only a pound higher than when he beat two subsequent next time out winners at Ascot last Christmas, which means he's very well in here. 

The evidence seems to be mounting that he doesn’t like Cheltenham based on both appearances there last season and, given he won at Auteuil when trained in France, the flat, galloping Newbury track might suit him much better.

I was very confident about backing Imperial Saint last time at Aintree but was a little surprised to see him backed into odds-on favouritism. However, in the race itself, he was never a short enough price as he jumped and travelled like the winner throughout, and carrying 10lb extra would certainly not have stopped him winning that contest. 

He has jumped very well around Aintree twice now and I don’t believe Newbury will prove too much for him. The track is actually very likely to play to his strengths. 

Michael Nolan is forging a very strong relationship with Imperial Saint and his trainer partnership remain in excellent form.