Windsor Placepot picks: Richard Birch focuses on £100,000 guarantee

Windsor stages an interesting card, its attraction enhanced by the £100,000 Placepot guarantee.

Big Bard and The Princes Poet, who goes well fresh, catch the eye from a handicapping perspective in leg one (1.30).

Runner-up over course and distance in October, Big Bard seems sure to go close in refitted cheekpieces assuming the ground isn’t softer than has been advertised over the weekend.

The Richard Hannon stable has long been synonymous with early two-year-old winners at Windsor and Gaiden looks another prime candidate in leg two (2.00).

Relief Rally, a sister to 6f winner Koropick who won by a commanding four and a half lengths on his Thirsk debut in 2016, is bred to be speedy too.

Prosper Legend and Understated are selected in leg three (2.35), with the Godolphin-owned Lingfield winner Sunset Point looking a likely type in leg four (3.10) now she goes handicapping off a mark of 76.

So Smart possesses an abundance of early pace and may prove hard to catch in the penultimate leg (3.45), with Warhol taken to make amends for a near-miss at the track last Monday in the concluding leg (4.20).

Windsor Placepot Perm

1.30
2 The Princes Poet
8 Big Bard

2.00
4 Gaiden
8 Relief Rally

2.35
3 Prosper Legend
5 Understated

3.10
5 Sunset Point

3.45
4 So Smart

4.20
4 Warhol

2x2x2x1x1x1 = 8 lines 

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