Chepstow Placepot picks: Tom Segal attempts to crack the £100,000 pool

Jamie Snowden's Julius Des Pictons is a banker in the opening novice hurdle (12.00) and King William Rufus, so impressive at Ascot last Friday, can also be relied on, despite a 7lb penalty, in the handicap hurdle (12.30).

In the third leg, the 2m 3½f handicap chase (1.05), it's safest to put a couple in and the two at the bottom of the weights, Georges Saint and Can You Call, should both go well.

There are several who can be fancied in the Grade 1 Finale Hurdle (1.40) but the French trained Nietzsche Has has been running in some high-class races and the others will have to make improvement to get up to his level.

The staying handicap hurdle (2.10) can be fought out by Phantomofthepoints, who ran well at Haydock last time, and Madaket, who likes the track and can improve for his comeback run at Newbury.

A case can be made for nearly everything in the Coral Welsh National (2.50), but it's the Irish-trained horses who make most appeal and Stuzzikini for Gordon Elliott and Gavin Cromwell's Evies Vladimir might be the two with most in hand from the handicapper.

Chepstow Placepot perm

12.00
2 Julius Des Pictons

12.30
1 King William Rufus

1.05
7 Georges Saint
8 Can You Call

1.40 
1 Nietzsche Has

2.10 
3 Phantomofthepoints
7 Madaket

2.50
5 Stuzzikini
15 Evies Vladimir

1x1x2x1x2x2 = 8 lines

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