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Inside today’s main piece I’m previewing Saturday’s big handicap the Grand National Trial at Haydock

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Inside today’s main piece, I’m diving into last week’s notebook for future winners.

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Newbury and Warwick beat the weather to race on Saturday. It proved an informative afternoon at Newbury with plenty of Cheltenham signals.

Inside today’s main piece I’m looking back at Saturday’s highlights.

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Five races are live on ITV from Newbury and three from Warwick on Saturday afternoon.

The day’s most valuable race is the William Hill Hurdle (3:20), with £87,219 to the winner. It’s a race with serious history formerly the Betfair Hurdle, the Gold Trophy, and for older readers, the Schweppes.

Under its previous sponsorships, particularly the Schweppes, the race had a vibrant ante-post market and plenty of famous gambles were landed. Today’s renewal is a poor imitation of the old Schweppes, or even the Gold Trophy, from an ante-post perspective. Still, it looks a competitive race.

More rain was forecast, so we could be looking at heavy ground. Do you side with proven mudlarks like Milldam and Go Dante, or the progressive types potentially well ahead of their marks horses like Let It Rain and All In You?

Thankfully Newbury races as today’s column focuses on Newbury.

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