Lingfield Placepot picks: Paul Kealy opts for a banker with 'loads in hand'

Decent fields at Lingfield make it the obvious destination for a Placepot, although it might not be easy.

With the ground potentially on the slow side for the in-form Imphal in the opener (12.15), I'll try to get him out of the first three with and .

The former gave a hat-trick-seeker a fright at Ascot on Saturday, while Freethinker went well for a long way at Huntingdon and can come on again.

is the each-way fancy in the next (12.45), but it is obviously going to be hard to kick out of the frame, so he goes in too.

There are only seven in the claiming hurdle (1.15), but is a last-time-out winner with loads in hand on the figures, so looks a banker.

There are potentially some nice types on show in the next novice hurdle (1.45), and I'm hoping the pick will be , a comfortable bumper winner on his return, and , who has joined Dan Skelton with some useful French form.

is the main fancy for the next (2.17), but it's not a race to bank on. is not one to trust when it comes to a win bet, but he knows how to finish second (four of last seven starts), so he goes in too.

David Pipe's Doyen La Lutte is the form mare in the last (2.47), but bumper horses and showed more than her in that sphere, so get the nod.

Lingfield Placepot perm

12.15
2 Thirtyfourstitches
9 Freethinker

12.45
3 Movethechains
7 Bretney

1.15
1 Celestial Force

1.45
2 Duke Of Rockingham
5 Heltenham

2.17
5 Star Academy
12 Dorking Lad

2.47
6 Speech Bubble
9 Whisky Express

2x2x1x2x2x2=32

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