Today's Racing Tips: Sam Turner 's best bets for Newbury including a 14/1 selection

• Honeyball hunting a Newbury Fortune

• Crest can prove best in Francome test

• Backers encouraged to look at Tele

Newbury, 13.50 - Back Crest Of Fortune @ 14/115.00

Given Crest Of Fortune has the lowest official rating in the field, it is unsurprising to see him largely unconsidered by the layers for this Grade 2 event, especially as he takes on some extremely talented novices.

Ante-post favourite Wendigo was beaten by a subsequent Cheltenham winner in Wade Out at Worcester and was runner-up to The New Lion in the Challow Hurdle, while Regent's Stroll was fourth in that Newbury event before going on to finish runner-up in Grade 1 company at Aintree.

Beating the main market protagonists will be tough for Anthony Honeyball's five-year-old, but I was highly impressed with the way he jumped around Cheltenham on his chasing debut in late October when beaten by a horse in Zurich who was making his sixth start over fences.

Crest Of Fortune earned a RaceIQ jump index of 8.4 which is extremely healthy for a chasing debutant and his recovery times from his fences were also synonymous with a horse that loved his first experience of the larger obstacles, his leap at the second last earning a star rating of 9.0.

Blenkinsop, who was fifth to Zurich, did the form no harm when running out a tidy winner at Exeter last Sunday and it is worth recalling that the selection, a close relation to the high-class hurdler Marello, was talented enough as a novice hurdler to finish placed in an Aintree Grade 1 himself when a gallant third in the Sefton rated just 125.

Crest Of Fortune is no good thing in this company, but the fact his savvy connections are willing to eschew a mark of 137 for tilt at Graded company could be a hint that he is overpriced.

Newbury, 14.25 - Back Telepathique @ 4/15.00

The switch to a left-hand track should suit Telepathique who dips back into handicap company following her dalliance in a Carlisle Listed event.

Subsequent Market Rasen scorer Paggane proved too strong for the selection when they met in Cumbria, but her conqueror has since scored on the bridle to endorse the form and Lucy Wadham's mare didn't do herself any favours by repeating her propensity to jump left.

Newbury should be a better fit for the thoroughly likeable Telepathique who tops the RaceIQ  jumping data, while her record when returned to the track between 18 and 38 days reads; 111211.   

Newbury, 14.25 - Back Heltenham @ 5/16.00

Backing two in a seven-horse race isn't always ideal, but Heltenham is something of a standing dish around the Berkshire venue (1118 at this track) so is hard to resist off the back of another wind procedure.

The eight-year-old is slipping down the weights following a couple of decent, if unspectacular efforts, this term and his current mark allied with a return to Newbury for a race which his stable must surely have targeted makes him worthy of support. He also relishes a swift return to the track with form figures of 1F1 when running within 14 days of his previous start.  

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