It's not unusual for one of the biggest betting races of the National Hunt season, but there’s no escaping the fact that most of the juice has been squeezed from the betting market for Saturday’s Ladbrokes Trophy at Newbury.

Favouritism has chopped and changed a number of times over the past few weeks and while Vinndication occupies the hot-seat as the music stops at the time of publication on Friday afternoon, the betting could clearly look completely different again come raceday morning. And who knows what will happen in the show.

On Tuesday November 10 I made the case for Two For Gold winning and I’m obviously pleased to see him in the line-up, which didn’t look odds-on at one stage, but with a fresh view on the eve of the race, and with Kim Bailey's horse now among a whole host of others seemingly really well found by punters, the one who appeals most is rank outsider THE HOLLOW GINGE (66/1 Sky Bet, Hills 1/5 1,2,3,4,5,6).

Sam Twiston-Davies has ridden this horse for his past three career wins and has opted to head to Bangor instead which, admittedly, isn’t the strongest start when it comes to making a case. However, T-D jnr is presumably in search of winners as he looks to build something approaching a jockeys’ title challenge and, on paper at least, has a seriously strong book of rides on the Dee this weekend. You can clearly understand the thought process there.

So in comes Gavin Sheehan, a good rider of this track and one with quite an eyecatching record for the Twiston-Davies yard – he has a win strike-rate of 36% and has in total ridden four winners, two seconds, two thirds and two fourths from just 11 attempts for the team.

COURT MASTER (9/1 bet365) is one to be on earlier on the card at Newbury.

He goes into the Sir Peter O’Sullevan Memorial Handicap Chase on the back of a course fourth over a slightly shorter trip at the last meeting, and I suspect it’s red-hot form that should be followed.

The bold-jumping Morning Vicar made all the running to lead home four promising seven-year-olds who all look to be going places to varying degrees, while the eventual seventh was Barton Knoll, who provided a timely boost to the strength of the race when winning well at Doncaster on Friday.

Like many others trained by Michael Scudamore, Court Master is going to be a stayer in time and it simply looked like he was outpaced last time after Nico De Boinville dictated matters to perfection on the winner.

We already know Court Master wants more of a test than that, having won his point over three miles and landed a novices’ handicap chase over Saturday’s trip (just short of three miles) here last December.

He won like a well-handicapped chaser on his comeback at Warwick in October too, when scoring from a mark of 120, and is only 7lb higher despite that eyecatching recent run and a head second to Fidux at Market Rasen sandwiched in between.

Fidux did his bit for Court Master’s overall body of work with a creditable effort in the big handicap chase won by Clondaw Castle here on Friday, and at 9/1 he’s a great bet.

Milkwood got the nod in this column ahead of Cheltenham's Greatwood Hurdle and, a non-runner there, it's not hard to see him giving Marie's Rock something to think about in the Ladbrokes Committed To Safer Gambling Intermediate Hurdle, especially give how well his Ffos Las form has worked out.

But he's not 33/1 here and does face some really promising horses as well as the favourite so I'll have to sit and suffer if he goes and bolts up off a mark of 141, which isn't beyond the realms of possibility at all.

One horse I don't want to see win without carrying some of my cash is RATHHILL (12/1 General) in the Get Your Ladbrokes £1 Free Bet Today Handicap Hurdle.

A J P McManus recruit from the point-to-point scene, he was pretty well regarded and won a good maiden hurdle here in December 2018 before running no sort of race when sent off 6/5 favourite for the heavy ground Tolworth won by Elixir De Nutz.