Daily Placepots 
/ Simon Baker / 27 February 2011 / Leave a Comment 
Fontwell Park
"Initial instinct was to take on Celestial Halo given he had a hard enough race just over a week ago, but he does have a fair bit in hand at the weights, so there probably isn’t much mileage in leaving him out."
Fontwell is the better of today's two NH meetings so that's where we're heading for the placepot...
14:10 - There are several in this that have the potential to improve for various reasons, but standard-setter Vico is one of them, and if he matches the form he showed when runner-up at Wincanton back in November he'll almost certainly be placed, and thus rates as a first-leg banker.
14:40 - Sarando might well win this novices' chase, but I can't find a piece of form, hurdles or fences, to justify him being a whole point shorter than Fruity O'Rooney in the betting, so it is with him that we'll side for the first selection. There's a chance the two already mentioned might take each other on up front, so in goes Lord Ragnar who might well get a race run to suit even if he hasn't looked a natural chaser to date.
15:10 - Quel Bruere's form comes and goes too often for comfort, but he pretty obviously has a weak handicap in him of this mark judged on the form he's shown when runner-up on two of his last starts. Swainson isn't reliable either, but if he repeats the form he showed when winning here last time, with the same rider in the plate, he'll be thereabouts too.
15:45 - Initial instinct was to take on Celestial Halo given he had a hard enough race just over a week ago, but he does have a fair bit in hand at the weights, so there probably isn't much mileage in leaving him out. There is, however, no harm in taking some insurance in the shape of Sentry Duty, who usually goes well on the back of a break, shaped better than the bare result when last seen in the Relkeel Hurdle, and most importantly, has the form to be right in the mix.
16:15 - Ornais will probably come on for his reappearance and is the one to beat, but he's currently an odds-on shot, and it will be to our advantage for placepot purposes if we can get him out of the two. Therefore we're banking on Herons Well, who looked like he retains most of his ability when runner-up in one of these at Ffos Las recently.
16:45 - Just The Job will prove very difficult to beat if he runs as well as he did when runner-up at Huntingdon on Thursday and the fact that he has overcome quick turnarounds in the past lends further weight to the argument for him. We can probably afford a back up and the one chosen for that role is Haarth Sovereign, who shaped with a fair bit more promise than the distance beaten would suggest last time.
Selections: 16 lines
14:10 - 1
14:40 - 2, 5
15:10 - 2, 6
15:45 - 3, 4
16:15 - 1
16:45 - 4, 7
Fontwell is the better of today's two NH meetings so that's where we're heading for the placepot......
Probably the best all-weather card of the year so far at Lingfield, the highlight the final of the sprint series....
For what looks a tricky day across the board, we turn to Lingfield for 'Placepotting' purposes, where the difficulty of the task in hand means the prospective financial gains are highly attractive....
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