Daily Placepots 
/ Keith Melrose / 31 August 2011 / Leave a Comment 
We're off to Hereford today - hopefully it's warmer than Halifax
"Manger Hanagment created a good impression when dotting up in an admittedly weak Perth handicap last time, while his size suggests further improvement could well be forthcoming on his second chase start."
With autumn just around the corner, it's high time we started introducing a bit of jumps racing into your diet, so the Placepot on this quiet Wednesday comes from Hereford...
14.10 - A pretty stock-standard summer novice, but it's potentially interesting for Placepot purposes with only two places now up for grabs. Neither Priors Gold nor Spirit Is Needed is sound of temperament, but due to a paucity of opposition we have to take at least one and the nod is given to the former, who hasn't been out of the three over hurdles since his debut. In hope of either one or both of the aforementioned pair having an off day, I'm giving our second spot to Forever My Friend, who wouldn't be far behind the market leaders on his bumper form and can be expected to have learned from his hurdling debut over course and distance.
14.40 - The openness of the market in this low-grade handicap says plenty, so we'll need a couple to help us through. First up is Timocracy, who in truth has never been quite as reliable over hurdles as he is on the Flat, but the feeling is it would take little more than a clear round from him in order to go very close. Among the most unexposed runners in the field, Lombok's suspect attitude may prevent him from winning if it comes down to a battle, but we certainly wouldn't be complaining with second place.
15.10 - Two non-runners have reduced this field to four, so we switch to the tactic of negative Placepotting, whereby we weed out the no-hopers rather than cherry-pick the interesting horses. Call it risky, but I think to avoid our perm spiralling out of control it's worth removing Cityar from the equation, which leaves Green du Ciel, Man In Black and Argaum.
15.40 - Assuming all five stand their ground, this should prove a pretty straightforward leg. Manger Hanagment created a good impression when dotting up in an admittedly weak Perth handicap last time, while his size suggests further improvement could well be forthcoming on his second chase start. He's a banker.
16.10 - As things stand there are four places up for grabs here, so a couple of last-time-out winners should be sufficient to get through. Coolagad Wonder was making just his second start in handicaps when scoring at Fontwell thirteen days ago, so it doesn't take a great leap of imagination to suggest there may be more to come. On the same day, Diamanpeg came back to form to nab his second win of the summer at Stratford; he's not the most consistent, though the fact that there looks to be precious little competition for the lead makes him more interesting than most.
16.40 - If like me you're looking to take on Intac in the final leg, I'm afraid there isn't much to go on. There's potentially a case to be made for the well-handicapped Tempting Paradise, but all told this looks as good an opportunity to follow up as Intac will get, especially with no other established front runners in attendance.
Selections: 24 lines
14.10 - 1, 6
14.40 - 1, 10
15.10 - 3, 4, 6
15.40 - 2
16.10 - 3, 10
16.40 - 1
We're off to Ripon for today's Placepot.......
Epsom hosts an interesting Bank Holiday card this afternoon......
It's a collaborative effort between Timeform's Sunday team for today's placepot......
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