Catterick Placepot picks: Richard Birch with his small perm for the meeting

Get through leg one of the Catterick Placepot by relying on two of the best riders in the amateur jockeys’ handicap (1.50).

Course-and-distance winner The Dancing Poet, who will be partnered by Simon Walker, and Irv, the mount of Becky Smith, make plenty of appeal.

Talamanca bolted up by six and a half lengths when dropped from 7f to 6f at Windsor last Monday. He ought to make light work of a 6lb penalty under promising apprentice Taylor Fisher in the nursery (2.20).

Ann Duffield’s stable shows signs of hitting top form, and Catterick specialist Quercus should make a bold bid for a third course-and-distance success in the 6f handicap (2.50).

The three-year-old Audit responded well to first-time cheekpieces when finishing second at Thirsk last time.

He should again deliver a good account in division one of the 7f handicap (3.20), in which the fairly treated Key Look also merits inclusion.

Hilary’s Boy can gain compensation for a nose defeat at Leicester in division two (3.55), with Stoney Lane suggested as back-up.

The William Haggas-trained Remembering, a twice-raced daughter of Frankel, stands out in the 1m4f novice stakes (4.25).

Catterick Placepot perm

1.50
1 The Dancing Poet
6 Irv

2.20
5 Talamanca

2.50
9 Quercus

3.20
5 Key Look
11 Audit

3.55
9 Hilary's Boy
10 Stoney Lane

4.25
7 Remembering

2x1x1x2x2x1 = 8 lines

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