Saturday tips: three best bets at Kelso and Newbury

Six runners will head to post for the Mares’ Listed hurdle and although she has to concede a small amount of weight all round, the 138-rated Wyenot looks a standout candidate. 

The key to her chance is that she won’t be hindered by a small field plus the possible lack of pace scenario because she is more than capable of making her own running, and performing to a high level, as she showed when winning a similar race to this at Doncaster in December. 

She arrives here fresh having had a couple of months off, and she won her sole start at Kelso in 2023. The ground conditions will also suit, and she should win.

Quite a few of these come here with question marks hanging over them, but that is not the case with Saint Segal, who has run to a high level on each of his past three starts. 

He is particularly effective around Newbury, as he showed with an 11-length romp in December, and he proved he could still mix it off his new rating when only picked off late in the BetVictor Greatwood Gold Cup Handicap Chase in March. 

Dryer ground this time will be to his advantage and he only needs to run to a similar level to hit the frame, at the very least, in this company. 

Some of these have the potential to improve for the step up in trip, but they are going to need to if they are to stop Jasmine Bliss providing trainer Harry Derham with a decent Saturday pot. 

Jasmine Bliss, a winner of a bumper at this venue last year, took her hurdles form to a new level with an 11-length demolition of La Pinsonniere at Southwell last time, where she jumped particularly fluently. 

Her only form drop-off this season came on testing ground at Ffos Las but she has no worries on that front again here because she bounces off drying ground. 

She could easily lead these a merry dance, despite the steadier of top weight.