Butchos123

Wolverhampton is the Jackpot meeting today, but I think the cards at Pontefract and Southwell look more Placepot-friendly. At Ponte, the soft-heavy again gives us an opportunity to oppose some favourites, whilst sticking a banker or two in to reduce the number of perms/lines if we can.

In response to a question on how to work out how many lines you have, it's fairly simple, just multiply the number of horses you have in each race. Lets say you pick 2 horses in every race, your lines would be 2x2x2x2x2x2=64 lines.
You can see how, if you can find a real banker in even one race, you can reduce your lines by half straight away - Let's say you have a nailed on horse in the first, your lines are 1x2x2x2x2x2=32 lines.
Likewise, if you had a particularly tricky last race and you wanted 3 horses on your side, you'd then have 1x2x2x2x2x3=48 lines.

Don't forget, you can put your placepots on directly through Betfair, by going to;

Menu>Horse Racing>GB>Tote GB


Anyway, on to my selections for Pontefract;


Leg 1
Secret Destination
Slipstream Angel
Leg 2
The Lock Master
Warcrown
Leg 3
Gowanharry
Celestial Dawn
Leg 4
Dragonera
Madam Macie
Leg 5
Ballista
Bouncy Bouncy
Leg 6
Mashaari

I really like Slipstream Angel's chances in the first. She saw off Opt out by about half a length last time out, as did Megamunch yesterday up at Ayr. Opt Out is rated 70 now, and I suspect Megamunch will end up rated around 75, so you'd think an improving Slipsteam Angel should have every chance off 66. 

I'm not quite so keen on only having Mashaari as our banker in the last. From a Placepot point of view, it's heartbreaking losing on the last leg, especially if you can see a decent prize in sight, but we've got to reduce the number of lines somehow, and the Gosden horse looks as good a sort as any to have on our side going into the final leg.