Newbury Placepot picks: Paul Kealy has three bankers for Friday's card

ought to get Placepot punters through the first leg (12.10) at Newbury without much trouble.

There are only two places on offer, but he had miles better bumper form than these rivals and made the perfect start over hurdles at Chepstow on his return last month.

Only four go in the 12.40, but you're braver than me if you leave any out, so it's on to the next (1.15).

Jonbon is a warm order, but he's a talking horse who is going to take chunks out of the pool, so I'll take him on and hope he sinks like Flinteur Sacre did in this race last year for the same connections.

There's far more depth to this than the layers would have you believe and and would be my two.

and are the two with solid chase experience in the next (1.50) and will do for me there, while I'll bank on in leg five as he's a different class to these if he puts it all together.

That just leaves the Long Distance Hurdle (3.00), and on a day when the payout is hardly likely to set any records, I'll go solely with , whose two previous efforts in this race would be more than good enough.

Newbury Placepot perm

12.10
1 Stage Star

12.40
1 Tea Clipper
2 Millers Bank
3 Pic D'Orhy
4 Nassalam

1.15
3 Charlie's Glance
4 Good Risk At All

1.50
1 Solo
4 Fifty Ball

2.25
1 Fanion D'Estruval

3.00
1 Paisley Park

1x4x2x2x1x1 = 16 lines

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