FIVE WINNING NAPS FOR 132 POINTS PROFIT: Old Guard (WON 11-4) yesterday gave Daqman a weekend double of naps and was winning best bet number five in eight days for a profit of 132 points to 20-point level stakes:
WON 4-1 RENE’S GIRL (nap)
WON 11-4 OLD GUARD (nap)
WON 5-4 MONBEG VICTORIOUS (supernap)
WON 6-5 BLOTTOS (nap)
WON 2-5 CYRNAME (supernap)
DAQMAN HAS DOUBLE THE PRICEWISE WINNERS: Old Guard was the second leg of a 2-0 weekend double over Pricewise, pitting Daqman 20-10 in the lead for value winners this Jumps season. It followed Saturday’s BETDAQ Chase winner, Master Dee (WON 8-1). The profit and loss to a single-unit stake is now Daqman +42, Pricewise -13, so a 55-point lead for Daqman.
BETDAQ RACES WRAP: DJANGO PLEASES JONJO: Tomorrow is weights day for the handicaps at Cheltenham. They should be on line that day and published in the Press on Wednesday. Looking closely will be trainers of Global Citizen (Ben Pauling) and Django Django (Jonjo O’Neill) who pleased connections on the BETDAQ card at Kempton On Saturday. Here’s the way it looks.
BETDAQ TRIUMPH: 5.5 REDICEAN
Betdaq race winners have big festival targets. That’s now and in the future from what could turn out to be a Kempton card to rival King George day for future stars.
Superb training feats were shared on Saturday by Alan King, whose team at home transformed the young hurdler Redicean to win the Adonis and this morning was 5.5 on BETDAQ for the Triumph Hurdle.
Equally impressive was Paul Nicholls expertise with the electric BETDAQ Pendil Chase winner, Cyrname, clearly running away with himself, so marked down for a quiet time of maturing before a championship season in 2018-19.
But the Grand National meeting in April has been earmarked for Ben Pauling’s nine-length novice-hurdle winner Global Citizen.
It depends what the Cheltenham-handicap weights look like when they are published on Wednesday. Bookies fancy him for the County Hurdle and have cut the odds to 10-1.
The Aintree bumper will be the target of Danny Kirwan, winner of the BETDAQ NH race which completed the sensational seven-race card but as one odds compiler tells the Racing Post today: ‘Danny looked like a machine, a horse to follow at whichever festival they aim him at.’
Yet another Aintree aim is now intended for Master Dee, who landed me an 8-1 winner of the BETDAQ Chase. He could go for the Topham.
Those are the winners on the day with a world of jumping before them but, as one winning jockey famously said when asked if he’d beat the placed horses again: ‘It’s them further behind that worry me!’
And my man in the long grass understands that connections were laughing little apples over the performance of Django Django, fourth in the Back Or Lay On BETDAQ Handicap Hurdle.
That was yet more improvement, though first time over a longer trip, for this Martin Pipe Conditionals race entry at Cheltenham next month.
The secret to him is a fast-run race, and his trainer, Jonjo O’Neill, is another who will be looking closely at the weights.
MOORE PRESENT TO TOPPLE PARK
2.30 Plumpton I warned you yesterday that the Neil King yard was missing strike badly and, sure enough, their kingpin Lil Rockerfeller was skittled by my nap, Old Guard.
Lil Rockerfeller, the 5-2 favourite, led three out but did not quite sustain the effort, despite first-time blinkers and was beaten after the last.
A performance like that, and stable form overall for the last two weeks of 220332042, still standing, is what racereaders used to call ‘running them a gallop short.’
Whatever the reason why pawns can topple King (he’s been beaten by 10-1, 11-1 and 14-1 shots in that sequence), I can’t be betting odds on Holbrook Park.
Though well aware that somewhere along the line, an exception will prove the rule, and Neil will turn the corner, I am doubly tempted because the small field has a 103% overround in the BETDAQ orange, which means punter friendly.
Holbrook Park has only ever beaten one other finisher in five chases and pulled up on three consecutive occasions.
Minmore Present drops back in trip and the faster pace may help his jumping, second time out for new handler, Gary Moore, who is Plumpton’s leading trainer: 3.8 offers
I shall lay Holbrook Park to win the stakes invested in Minmore Present (to win 20). That’s a double whammy!
3.35 Plumpton Gary Moore should go close again here with 2.88 BETDAQ offer Not Never, a winner on heavy here on the last day but ‘improved for better ground’ when scoring last Spring at Huntingdon (quote unquote the trainer’s rep).
Jumping Jack doesn’t have much pace in a finish, consequently has that bridesmaid look with form figures of 43222.
It wouldn’t be fair to paint Doc Carver with the same brush, as he was bumped when second at Bangor and upsides the winner when he fell here out at Towcester, but it’s still a fact that we’re making excuses for a five times beaten horse under Rules.
As a Kayf Tara, Hope’s Wishes ought to be tried over further. But Barry Brennan is one win one runner just now and you have to trust the trainer (or not).
Zen Master is the enigma of the race, a not-so-goody twoshoes. He lost his left-hind shoe at Warwick and left fore at Leicester, on both occasions well supported to follow up his Market Rasen maiden success in October.
GRAB GRADE-A BETDAQ OFFER..
4.05 Plumpton Dr Richard Newland is 12112 in the last week, and looked like landing me a famous victory until West of The Edge (2nd 11-1) was headed at the last in the Eider Chase on Saturday.
The depleted field for this suggests that his front-running grey Greyed A can make all the running here at around even money (1.99 grade-A offers!) on BETDAQ this morning, as is his wont. The opposition is moderate to say the least.
DAQMAN’S BETS
2.30 Plumpton (Double whammy)
BET 7pts to win 20 MINMORE PRESENT
LAY to win 7pts HOLBROOK PARK
3.35 Plumpton (win 20)
BET 10pts win NOT NEVER
4.05 Plumpton (Supernap to win 20)
BET 20pts win (nap) GREYED A
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