Uttoxeter Placepot picks: Paul Kealy has a crack at the £250,000 guaranteed pot

Can You Call couldn't hack it in Grade 2 company at Cheltenham, but his hurdles form remains considerably better than that of his rivals, and at least two are going to have to improve in a big way to knock him out of the Placepot.

He looks a banker for the first leg (1.15), which is a good job, as it gets harder after that.

I'm not 100 per cent sure about favourite Hitching Jacking in the next (1.50), so will go three-handed against him.

Stag Horn is definitely well handicapped, Up For Parol represents the very much in-form Jamie Snowden and outsider Limited Reserve is lurking on a very dangerous mark and loves the mud.

In the third (2.25), Dan Skelton's Wilde About Oscar and Ballygrifincottage both love deep ground and look fairly treated to me (particularly the former) and they will do.

Major Dundee and Time To Get Up are my two stabs at the Midlands National (3.00) but I'll also add market leader Guetapan Collonges just to be on the safe side.

Gustavian, with form figures at Uttoxeter of 21332, has to go in the fifth (3.35) and he's joined by the consistent Mackelduff.

That just leaves another tricky handicap chase (4.10), in which I'll go with Not Sure, who will appreciate softer ground than last time, and the 11-year-old Billingsley, who has become dangerously well treated and has been running well.

Uttoxeter Placepot perm

1.15
2 Can You Call

1.50
1 Up For Parol
2 Stag Horn
10 Limited Reserve

2.25
4 Ballygrifincottage
7 Wilde About Oscar

3.00
8 Guetapan Collonges
13 Time To Get Up
15 Major Dundee

3.35
3 Gustavian
9 Mackelduff

4.10
8 Not Sure
9 Billingsley

1 x 3 x 2 x 3 x 2 x 2 = 72 lines

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