BLUE SKIES FOR DAQMAN NAP: Two supernaps out of two (Sunday and Wednesday) and a 100-30 nap in the sunshine yesterday to back them up. That’s Daqman again, with three days’ profit in a row as follows:
Thursday: profit on the day 6.00 points
WON 10-3 MISTRAL BLUE (nap)
Wednesday: profit on the day 2.88
WON 4-6 AL QAREEM (supernap)
WON 2nd 5-6 (Lays Logic) MUTASARREF (4-4)
Tuesday: profit on the day 8.00
WON 5-1 BETTER TOGETHER (Deauville)
WON 11-4 FAHRENHEIT SEVEN (Pontefract)
Ayr Day 1: PLAY SKELTON ACE
⭕ 2.40 Ayr LAYS LOGIC (negative): Doesn’t mean it’s sure to happen that way but favourites – including joint favs – are on a winning streak of five in a row (seven out of nine).
And Dan Skelton, who has won two of the last four runnings of this 3m hurdle, will play his Ace Of Spades in the fight for the trainers’ title before Willie Mullins tries to trump his challenge this weekend.
Hard to think of Skelton as the challenger – he’s been so far ahead – but Mullins is he holder and likes his titles to run and run, no stopping until he has the Lonsdale belt.
The high pressure comes from 19 Irish raiders tomorrow. Low Pressure that will bring rain to Ayr is due to arrive at the same time, which usually suits the Irish.
The Mullins’ Scottish National sextet include Olympic Man and Klarc Kent. You can see the superman headlines now if one of them wins!
Ace Of Spades scored at Kelso in December (2m 6f) and stayed on well back there last month, as if an even longer trip would further his career.
Yes, he carries 12st but he’s up only 2lb; there’s no clinging mud and the Kelso run was a class higher than today.
LAZY SUSAN IN CHEEKPIECES
⭕ 4.25 Ayr Dan Skelton has won this three times in the last nine years and Nurse Susan looks perfectly lined up, after she seemed set for a place on her return in the Martin Pipe at Cheltenham.
She ran out of steam two out; has had a month’s break since then, and cheekpieces should help her finish the job this time.
J J Slevin, who took over I Love My Baie’s successful novice career from Daryl Jacob, is back in the saddle of the Ayr CD winner, looking for a win for Northern Ireland ahead of the Mullins’ assault.
Harry Cobden seems to prefer Red Risk to Irish Hill (consistent without making much progress) but the risk is evident in his form: enormous gaps between successes in 2020, 2022 and recently 2025.
Newbury Day 1: CLAP THUNDER!
⭕ 4.10 Newbury It’s a punters-beware start to the Greenham Meeting with maidens and novices until this 2m handicap.
Spirit Mixer has always needed his first run back and a perfunctory butchers at his form is all that’s needed to mark him down for the Chester May meeting.
Charging Thunder went 19 defeats until an autumn double but came back to form on AW last month off a mark which still looks low after the handicapper has done his bit.
Moon Over Miami is 2-2 on turf, but has lost three times in a row on AW: was he just being prepped for this or were those sub-standard outings what we can now expect.?
DAQMAN’S BETS on Betdaq Betting Exchange
★ 2.40 Ayr (win 30, nap)
BET 8pts win ACE OF SPADES
4.10 Newbury (win 20)
BET 6pts win CHARGING THUNDER
4.25 Ayr (win 30)
BET 10pts win NURSE SUSAN
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