DAQMAN: 10 WINNERS IN SIX DAYS: Daqman was on the Peterborough Chase winner Djelo (WON 5-6) at Huntingdon yesterday to notch up 10 winners in six days (see Sunday’s list).
WEEKEND WRAP: Daqman’s Hot Spots have won two out of three and he begins this week’s probe into the results with a weekend wrap; Hot Spots list tomorrow.
WHY JONBON HOLDS THE KEY
WEEKEND WRAP: Dan Skelton’s best two-miler, L’Eau Du Sud, flopped in the Tingle Creek on Saturday but don’t write him off.
It all looked so easy in the Cheltenham Chase last month when he had Jonbon trailing 15 lengths behind.
But it was a hard race on the ground and Skelton believes that a rested L’Eau Du Sud, back at Cheltenham, freshened up for the Champion Chase, is still a real threat to Saturday’s Willie Mullins winner, Il Etait Temps.
Il Etait Temps beat Jonbon nine lengths which suggests L’Eau Du Sud might still have the measure.
There’s no knowing until March but one thing is certain: Jonbon now needs a change of direction; he is not the animal he was, though was he ever The Great Jonbon. Nicky Henderson is a past master of the ballyhoo!
Look back now, and ask yourself: what merit was there from the series of runners-up in Jonbon’s 2024-25 successes: Conflated, El Fabiolo, Boothill, Quilixios, Protektorat?
In the Spring he was beaten 18 lengths in the Champion Chase by a 159-rated, and five lengths plus by Il Etait Temps in the Celebration Chase at Sandown; now, this autumn, 15 lengths behind L’Eau Du Sud and on Saturday nine behind Il Etait Temps.
The one-two I missed out of the 2024-25 list was his defeat of the 11-year-old veteran Energumene at Ascot in January, nine lengths third yesterday in the Hilly Way Chase at Cork. That says it all.
BLING! STABLE’S DOUBLE BID
⭕ 5.30 Wolverhampton Palace Boy (2-2 over this CD) won back to back last time he had a long holiday.
Has been running in higher grade since and recently moved to a decent Lambourn yard. BETDAQ 21.0.
⭕ 6.30 Wolverhampton A tasty looking class-3 sprint, with the low draw favoured, though I remember Papa Cocktail pinching a handicap here with a far-side run, albeit that was class 5 and he was racing off 69.
Fiscal Policy is a CD winner off the same mark as today’s but the 3-4 here achieved by Queue Dos has been in class 5.
Trainer Tom Clover is out of form (0-8) and it’s hard to know what to expect from Al Karrar, who ran in a Group-2 as a two-year-old. Gelded before a run back at York.
Purest Time has been racing in class 2 but is 0-6 on AW and has never won in England.
I think we should rely on Hugo Palmer. This is his winningmost track and Dubai Bling (BETDAQ 5.3 taken) has raced as high as Listed level while Stratusnine (Betdaq Betting Exchange 6.8) gave weight to the winner when beaten little more than a length for the £100,000 EBF Final at York over 7f, after leading from halfway.
NOT-SO-DARK TWILIGHT NAP
⭕ 7.30 Wolverhampton Simon Hodgson goes for a hat-trick after two winners in six days, both making all at Lingfield; both running again today: Villalobos (2.07 Lingfield today) and Twilight Madness (7.30 Wolverhampton).
Twilight Madness was returning to form 23lb lower than his last success and, off the same mark today, has every chance of the follow-up. He’s put two wins together before.
DAQMAN’S BETS
on Betdaq Betting Exchange
5.30 Wolverhampton (win 25 total)
BET 1pt win and place PALACE BOY
6.30 Wolverhampton (win 21)
BET 5pts win DUBAI BLING
BET 3.5pts win STRATUSNINE
★ 7.30 Wolverhampton (win 12, nap)
BET 7pts win TWILIGHT MADNESS
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