Kempton Placepot picks: Richard Birch with his selections for the £50,000 guaranteed pool

The £50,000 Placepot guarantee is on offer at Kempton, which stages an excellent all-weather card.

Monopolise and Johnjay, who have both dropped to decent marks, make most appeal in leg one (12.20).

Santorini Star, a half-sister to several winners, ought to get on the scoresheet at the second attempt in leg two (12.50) for William Haggas.

Dissident sets the standard on form in leg three (1.20), but it would be no surprise if the Charlie Appleby-trained newcomer Bedouin Prince proved in a different league.

Six-time scorer Mums Tipple has a decent record on the all-weather – three wins from 13 starts – and should go close in leg four (1.50). 

Heathcliff, a course-and-distance winner who gets weights from all of his rivals, is the one to beat in that race, however, and also goes in the perm.

Military Academy lost his unbeaten record when failing to justify 10-11 favouritism at Newmarket in September. Time is likely to tell he is considerably better than that performance suggests and he can bounce back in leg five (2.20).

God Of Fire and Oslo are the pair to focus on in a hugely competitive final leg (2.57), which carries £70,000 in guaranteed prize-money.

Kempton Placepot perm

12.20
2 Monopolise
3 Johnjay

12.50
2 Santorini Star

1.20
2 Bedouin Prince
4 Dissident

1.50
3 Mums Tipple
9 Heathcliff

2.20
5 Military Academy

2.57
3 God Of Fire
11 Oslo

2x1x2x2x1x2 = 16 lines

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