Saturday tips: Dave Nevison shares his four best bets

Gary Moore and family are synonymous with Saturday afternoon successes at Sandown and he has scooped this race twice in the past five years. 

The Moore team run two closely matched horses in an attempt to win it this time and on a point of value I favour The Bell Hop of the pair. 

This juvenile will quite rightly be regarded as a lucky winner last time out after the odds-on favourite fell at the last when set to score, but the form looks decent. 

He has only been beaten once over hurdles and his fourth placed effort at Wetherby on his penultimate start looks solid. He could be overpriced. 

I put Jack Hyde up when he was well backed last time coming back after a wind operation and he ran very well despite not justifying the money for him. 

Although he let me down, I have very much left him in the tracker list as everything went against him that afternoon. 

The race was slowly run and when he got shuffled back to last turning into the straight at Taunton, he was never going to get to the front. 

Finishing second without being seriously knocked about was a good effort. This year’s Imperial Cup is one of the most competitive handicaps of the season and is absolutely guaranteed to be run at a furious pace and Jack Hyde could be extremely well suited by the run. He should be staying on into an extra place at least. 

If the market is strong for this lightly raced four-year-old I think he may be a decent bet here. The Harry Eustace-trained gelding looked to be an unlucky loser of the Britannia Handicap at Royal Ascot last season. He might have made up into a Group class performer if he had been able to run again. 

He is one of the market leaders for the Lincoln itself and has obviously been prepared with the Doncaster race in mind. This trial could be the ideal stepping stone. 

Calymistic came back after a disappointing final run over hurdles last season with his best run, making a winning debut over fences at Newbury at the end of December. 

He won narrowly in the end, but jumped well around that most exacting of tracks and I am very happy to take a positive view of the form (a next-time winner finished behind him) and am not concerned that this exclusively good ground performer has been absent during the depths of our wet winter. 

The handicapper has only put him up by 4lb, which is as much as he could justify given the margin, but I expect that to prove lenient.