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Will there be a Happy Diva at Newbury today?
Happy Diva [David Davies/PA Images]

Despite being so close to the Cheltenham Festival, the racing at Newbury, Doncaster and Kelso is really classy and I am going to go out on a limb for the nap of the day at the Berkshire track in the form of HAPPY DIVA (nap) in the Greatwood Gold Cup at 2.40.

Kelly Lee’s charge put in a really fluent round of jumping when winning at Huntingdon last time out, staying on really stoutly all the way to the line, and she remains capable of doing better especially as this race will be run to suit with any number of front runners/pressers in the line-up.

The best of her rivals are probably War Sound, still unexposed, and probably the former French chaser Dustin des Mottes who I am convinced we have yet to see the very best of since he came across the English Channel.

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