Ascot Placepot picks: Paul Kealy provides his Champions Day perm

The British Champions Day Placepot has a guaranteed pool of at least £250,000, so it is well worth splashing out on lines, even to small stakes.

I'll be taking on the Classic generation in Ascot's opener (1.25) as I'm not convinced by either runner, so and are the obvious ones for the Placepot.

Only four three-year-olds have won an all-aged Group race over 2m-plus in Britain since 2009, so Eldar Eldarov and Waterville are ones to be taken on at their prices.

is the nap of the day in the Sprint (2.00), but it is 4-1 the field and there are three places with 18 runners, so I'll add a couple.

Having run over the wrong trip for most of the season, is interesting dropping back to 6f, while Brad The Brief is capable of running a big race from stall five.

It's all about the Gosden pair and for me in the next (2.40), but I'm going to take a right chance and perm a few against Inspiral in fourth (3.20).

She can obviously win and will be tough to kick out of the frame, but I make this far more competitive than the market suggests, and will be sticking in , and , who is beginning to get his act together and will relish the stiff mile.

Something will have to go wrong for Baaeed to finish out of the money in the Champion Stakes (4.00), so he's the banker, while I'll be three-handed in the last.

is the one I really like, but I'd better have some far-side cover, so and are the other two.

Ascot Placepot perm

1.25
1 Coltrane
5 Trueshan

2.00
2 Brad The Brief
8 Kinross
18 Tenebrism

2.40
11 Emily Upjohn
13 Mimikyu

3.20
4 Tempus
5 The Revenant
7 Checkandchallenge

4.00
2 Baaeed

4.40
2 Migration
5 Johan
11 Rhoscolyn

2x3x2x3x1x3=108 lines

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