Templegate’s Kempton Tote Placepot tips with £150,000 guaranteed on Saturday

TEMPLEGATE is back with his Placepot picks this weekend with Saturday’s Kempton meeting the main focus.

It’s a belter this one, with a sensational £150,000 guaranteed in the pot!

Templegate’s Kempton Tote Placepot tips with £150,000 guaranteed on SaturdayPA

The Placepot is a bet where you select a horse to be placed in the FIRST SIX races of any meeting.

You can pick more than one horse in a race – you just multiply the number of selections in each race to calculate your stake. So for staking it’s 2x1x2x1x2x2 which adds up to 16 lines. 

You can stake what you want upwards from 5p a line. 10p a line is £1.60 with our picks and so on. Provided at least one in each race is placed, we get a payout!

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Saturday’s Kempton Placepot picks

LEG 1: Largy Poet, Sea Invasion

LARGY POET was a big improver when winning over a similar trip to this at Exeter last time. He went from the front there and travelled nicely in the testing ground to score by 12 lengths. Harry Cobden takes over for this handicap debut and even more rain would increase confidence for this improver. 

There was a lot to like about SEA INVASION when finishing fourth here over two miles on Boxing Day. He looks as though this stiffer stamina test will be ideal and his opening handicap mark of 114 looks pretty fair.

LEG 2: Kalif Du Berlais

KALIF DU BERLAIS looks hard to beat after his impressive British debut win for Paul Nicholls here last month. Harry Cobden had him in the lead throughout and didn’t have a moment’s worry as this four-year-old travelled well and quickened right away. There is a lot more to come and cut in the ground over this trip is ideal.

LEG 3: Tahmuras, Le Patron

Paul Nicholls has an amazing record in this race having won an impressive 13 of the past 18 runnings. He relies on TAHMURAS this time who was a good handicap winner at Aintree on Boxing Day. It looked as though he would follow up at Exeter last time before he got tired up the run-in. This flatter track should be ideal for Harry Cobden’s mount.

LE PATRON has a 5lb penalty to carry for winning the Grade 1 Henry VIII at Sandown in December. He then flopped at the highest level there when too bad to be true. It’s too early to write him off and he could easily bounce back.

LEG 4: Lump Sum

LUMP SUM has shown his best in testing ground with an easy win at Ffos Las followed by a big-field success at Wincanton. That earned him a crack at this Grade 2 company at Doncaster last time where he finished strongly after coming from too far back. There are several confirmed front-runners in the field which will hopefully set up the race nicely for him to come late again.

LEG 5: Blackjack Magic, Forward Plan

BLACKJACK MAGIC loves a good slog in the mud and he should get that today. He ran a cracker to win the Badger Beers at Wincanton in November when it was very testing and has gone well twice since at Ascot and Sandown in the Classic last time. He would have finished closer than fifth there but for a late mistake and the ground was too quick for him. He’s had a little nudge down the weights and can show his true colours. 

Anthony Honeyball stablemate FORWARD PLAN was unlucky not to make it two wins on the spin at Doncaster last time. He’s respected although his best has come on better ground.

LEG 6: Pepe Le Moko, Heltenham

PEPE LE MOKO had 14 lengths in hand when winning here last time and saves his best for this distance. It’s early days over fences and there should be more to come.

HELTENHAM will be happy coming back over fences after a quiet run over hurdles at Lingfield last time. He was a solid third in an Aintree chase before that and should be right in the mix.

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