ARMCHAIR RIDE FOR DAQMAN NAP: Daqman’s winner-a-day value sequence continued this week with yesterday’s nap at 5-2. Value, cry his critics? From odds-on and evens when he picked it in the morning, Kom Du Voudras drifted alarmingly but in the race itself was poised all the way and only had to be nudged along to score. Owner J. P. McManus; armchair ride by his newly retained jockey, Harry Cobden.
WON 5-2 KOM DU VOUDRAS (Thursday nap)
WON 6-5 WHO’S ON FIRST (Wednesday nap)
Monday profit on the day: 27.25pts
WON 9-2 HELLO JUDGE (BETDAQ 7.5 taken
WON 11-2 SOUND AND FURY (BETDAQ 8.1 taken)
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⭕ 3.14 Exeter A nice little earner at Listed level, and a last chance to make the Cheltenham Festival Mares Chase, attracts Willie Mullins’ hooded Fun Fun Fun, officially a stone and more ahead of her two rivals.
Blue Las got it together from the front in a two-horse affair at Doncaster but, rated ahead of that one over hurdles, Della Casa Lunga was not disgraced at Carlisle in her first try over fences.
BACK DECCO AT THE DOUBLE
⭕ 3.45 Exeter (Devon National) The magnificent Mr Vango won this in 2024 on the way to a London National, a Midlands National and a Peter Marsh.
Last year’s winner Art Decco, who had Gold Clermont 40 lengths behind, had earlier won the West Wales National on heavy ground, which will prevail today. BETDAQ 8.1
Jubilee Express, runner-up in the 2024 Welsh Grand National, won its December trial but pulled up when made favourite to land the Grand version.
Catch Catchfire was runner-up the last day in the Surrey National at Lingfield. But he and Largy Poet, both only seven, are 21lb apart in the ratings, showing the weakness of one and the weights burden of another!
Top-weight, but claimed off, Largy Poet has winning form on heavy up to 3m, but pulled up in the Berkshire National at Ascot in November.
MULLINS DADDY OF THEM ALL
⭕ 7.30 Southwell This is the Festival prep got up for Constitution Hill. Though they’ve renamed it the Road To Cheltenham Novice Stakes and boosted the prizemoney to class-2 level, it was won from its lowly status last year in fact by a Festival-placed horse.
With only a few quid on offer as a class 5, it went to Liam Swagger, a Listed juvenile hurdle scorer at Wetherby, who went on to finish third for James Owen in the Fred Winter at the Festival.
Constitution Hills’ 10 wins in a row included the Supreme Novices and the 2024 Champion Hurdle. But this year he has continually missed out a jump and sprawled like a novice.
He now has FFF0F form ‘figures’ including in the Champion Hurdle and last time out in the Fighting Fifth won by new champion, Golden Ace. This is his first time on the Flat.
Tripoli Flyer (Coral Cup or County Hurdle) is the only other runner this afternoon to have Cheltenham engagements: he’s in the big handicaps, County Hurdle and Coral Cup, off 142.
Maestro Willie Mullins’ Daddy Long Legs is a 152 hurdler (Constitution Hill 170), second in both the Irish Champion Hurdle and the Sussex Champion Hurdle, two years younger than the favourite. Ryan Moore rides, and worth a pound at Betdaq Betting Exchange 7.3 this morning.
DAQMAN’S BETS
on Betdaq Betting Exchange
★★ 3.14 Exeter (supernap)
BET 20pts win FUN FUN FUN
3.45 Exeter (win-50 bull’s-eye bet)
BET 7pts win ART DECCO
7.30 Southwell (win 25)
BET 4pts win DADDY LONG LEGS
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