Templegate’s Sandown Tote Placepot tips for the Imperial Cup with £150,000 guaranteed on Saturday

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

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

Templegate’s Sandown Tote Placepot tips with £100,000 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 Sandown Placepot picks

LEG 1 Through The Ages

THROUGH THE AGES has won his past two hurdles runs in fine style and coped with heavy ground at both Newbury and Plumpton. There’s more to come.

LEG 2 Fire Flyer, Asta La Pasta

FIRE FLYER is improving fast and followed a convincing Wincanton success with a battling victory at Taunton last time. He makes his handicap debut from a mark of 127 that may underestimate him. He handles soft ground well and there’s more to come.

ASTA LA PASTA tanked along in the mud at Wetherby latest and seemed to have a bit left at the line. He’ll get similar conditions here and will be right there for the Skeltons.

LEG 3 Making Headway, Sans Bruit

MAKING HEADWAY has been running in classy contests this season and went close in a Haydock Grade 2 before a solid fourth in the highest grade at Aintree on Boxing Day.

He didn’t have to hit that level when landing his first victory over timber at Newbury four weeks ago but still did it nicely. He is bred to get further than this so stamina won’t be an issue in the testing conditions and he can improve again on just his fourth hurdles spin for Greenall and Guerriero. 

SANS BRUIT is interesting on his second start for Paul Nicholls after arriving from France where he ran in Grade 1 company. He will be right at home in these testing conditions and he’ll be fitter for that comeback run.

LEG 4 Just Call Me Lucy, Magical Annie

JUST CALL ME LUCY looks juicy in this classy contest. After showing promise on debut in good company at Aintree, she destroyed her rivals at Carlisle to land a 17-length win without breaking sweat. Both those runs were in testing conditions so the ground won’t be an issue and there’s a lot more to come from Mark Walford’s mare. 

MAGICAL ANNIE loved the mud when scoring on debut at Galway in October before finding conditions too quick in this grade at Donny latest. More rain would only enhance her chance here.

LEG 5 Golden Son, Terresita   

GOLDEN SON put a couple of ropey runs behind him when winning at Kempton over this trip last time. The second has won since so the form looks solid and a 3lb rise in the weights is more than fair. 

TERRESITA jumped them into submission from the front when scoring easily at Ludlow. This is tougher but he can’t be ignored.

LEG 6 Rose Of Arcadia, Trincomlee

ROSE OF ARCADIA went close in the Grand Military Gold Cup here last time and is reunited with regular rider Brendan Powell here.

TRINCOMLEE has the benefit of Harry Cobden on board and he’s another who went close here last time out.

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