Best Bets: Friday 20 December

Blakefield Pixie (Trap 4) - 16.27 Newcastle 

Blakefield Pixie might be the oldest runner in the 16.27 at Newcastle this afternoon but the four-year-old is in the form of her life at present and brings easily the best recent form to the table in this A4. The selection has won three of her last four races, including in this grade last time, and might have been expected to have gone up another notch for that but has in fact ended up in a race no harder than the one she won last time.

Boherash Dash (Trap 5) - 17.06 Newcastle 

Later at Newcastle, Boherash Dash looks the answer to the 17.06. The orange hasn’t finished out of the first four since August and is near guaranteed to run his race. Two narrow defeats in his last two races, the latest of which was his best effort for some time, suggest he is coming to the boil again and a repeat of that run ought to be easily good enough here.  

Glenmore Phantom (Trap 5) - 20.44 Nottingham

The 20.44 at Nottingham this evening looks an opportunity for Glenmore Phantom to get back i winning ways. The orange has run into traffic problems on his last two starts but isn’t quite good enough for A32 grade anyway, so the drop back into A3 company here (in which he has won three of his last five runs in it) is a big positive.