Royal Ascot Placepot tips: Paul Kealy's perm for the £250,000 guaranteed pool on day two

Miss Rascal is quite a strong fancy for the Queen Mary (2.30) but with only three places and 26 runners it would be daft to make her a banker for Placepot purposes.

I'll add Leovanni, who is the subject of good reports from Karl Burke's yard and certainly did the job well at Nottingham on her debut.

Birdman has every chance of seeing off the Ballydoyle battalions in the Queen's Vase (3.05).

Last year's winner Rogue Millennium is the one to beat in my eyes in the Duke of Cambridge (3.45), and I'm going to take a chance by banking on both her and Horizon Dore in the Prince of Wales's (4.25) so I can have a few in the final two big-field handicaps.

Topweight Sonny Liston is first on the list for the Hunt Cup (5.05), and he's joined by potentially improving four-year-olds Real Gain and Daysofourlives.

Holloway Boy is the same age, and although not improving, the Chesham winner of two years ago is back to a decent mark and could be a player if his stable has him back to his best.

Back See Daa and Farhh To Shy are outsiders worth giving serious consideration in the Kensington Palace, but in a very tricky race I'll also add the unexposed Summer Of Love, and Rowayeh, who is better than she showed on her return at Newmarket.

Royal Ascot Placepot perm

2.30
12 Leovanni
17 Miss Rascal

3.05
1 Birdman

3.45
11 Rogue Millennium

4.25
4 Horizon Dore

5.05
1 Sonny Liston
4 Holloway Boy
9 Real Gain
24 Daysofourlives

5.40
9 Back See Daa
11 Summer Of Love
12 Farhh To Shy
13 Rowayeh

2x1x1x1x4x4 = 32 lines

Tuesday Placepot pays £5,406

There was a huge Placepot dividend of £5,406 at Royal Ascot on Tuesday, with 88 winning units. The liquidity on offer in the World Pool helped to bring a record Trifecta payout in the Coventry Stakes with a £122,667 dividend to a £1 stake, compared to a Tricast of £83,273.

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The Swinger is a great bet for races like the Royal Hunt Cup. It demands that you get two of the first three, in any order, which is the sort of leeway you need in a 30-runner cavalry charge.

The recommendation is to side with horses known to do well at the track. Perotto has won big handicaps here in the past and will have been well readied for this reappearance. Sonny Liston was second in this last year and ran a career-best at Newbury last time. Raadobarg is well handicapped on form as recent as March and has more form on quick ground, and at Ascot, than you might think.

All are drawn in the top half and getting two of them in the first three is bound to return a handsome profit.
Keith Melrose

5.05 Royal Ascot

1 Sonny Liston
7 Raadobarg
8 Perotto

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