DAQMAN’S ON THE OCHE FOR BULL’S-EYE BETS: Friday the 13th but Bull’s-Eye Bets return for the opening day of the Cheltenham International Meeting, including a rare win-50 nap (at 8.5 in the BETDAQ orange this morning). Bull’s-eye naps are currently 256 points up for the year. All other profits below are for NH racing since the end of the Flat.
ACCOUNTS UPDATE
Daqman 13, Pricewise 4 (+162.30 to -110.00)
Bull’s-eye bets 45% (+101.20 from 5-11)
Bulls-eye naps 50% (+256pts from 8-16)
All Daily Naps 45% (+55.01 from 14-31)
Supernaps 60% (+64.68 from 6-10)
ANOTHER BIG DAY AT CHELTENHAM TOMORROW: Look out for the Cheltenham International tomorrow alongside the Gold Cup and trials for the Triumph and the Albert Bartlett. Remember all our tips and information come free to BETDAQ betters who have the best back-and-lay value.
TODAY’S DAQMAN HEADLINES
🔹 MY CASH IS ON 14.5 CASWELL
🔹 CONDITIONS RIGHT FOR ROCK
🔹 THERE’S A RUSH FOR THE 10.5
🔹 GETAWAY’S A 10.0 TAKE-AWAY
MY CASH IS ON 14.5 CASWELL
1.20 Cheltenham As with so many Nicky Henderson youngsters, Never Adapt is market leader on potential, based solely on the evidence of her 10-length heavy ground win for Guillaume Macaire in 2018, prompting her purchase by J P McManus.
She ran too freely in the Triumph Trial at the November meeting at Cheltenham that year; the filly ‘got a leg’ and hasn’t been seen since.
This is not a race Nicky Henderson farms but he did win it with a subsequent Coral Cup winner 10 years ago, and handicap hurdling is clearly the direction he’s taking with Never Adapt.
Fanfan Du Seuil was a good second at this meeting a year ago, subsequently fifth in the Fred Winter.
Ecu De La Noverie is back to hurdles from a successful spell chasing and has similar solid form to stablemate Oakley and a similar rating to go with it.
Barntown struck form over further on heavy ground but Caswell Bay will appreciate today’s sounder surface and could make it 3-4 handicap-hurdle wins for Evan Williams and Adam Wedge in the last six days.
He’s a big, strong horse who had the rest of the four-year-olds well beaten off at Chepstow recently, yet is 14.5 on BETDAQ receiving 10lb from the four-year-old favourite today, and more than a stone from the next two in the market.
CONDITIONS RIGHT FOR ROCK
2.30 Cheltenham Some decent stayers have won this Grade-3 chase (3m 2f), including two winners each in the decade for Colin Tizzard and David Pipe, who are 20lb apart with their candidates today.
West Approach (Tizzard 11st 12lb) and What A Moment (Pipe 10st 6lb; has won only in amateur riders’ chases) are both nine-year-olds, and that age group has won twice in the last three seasons.
The 2018 winner, Cogry, is likely to take them along and turn the 3m 2f into a marathon, but he’s 6lb worse off with another nine-year-old Singlefarmpayment, the head runner-up that day.
In turn, Cogry holds Onefortheroadtom on October form over the old course here and is 10lb better for two lengths with West Approach, who subsequently scored over further on the same course in the race won last year by Rock The Kasbah, who looks the pick of the nine-year-olds and is favoured by the conditions (8.5 taken on BETDAQ).
THERE’S A RUSH FOR THE 10.5
3.05 Cheltenham (Cross Country) Conditions are reportedly softer on this course, which is why last year’s winner on good ground, Fact of The Matter, is out to 21.0 in the BETDAQ orange.
So it might be a soft touch for the Enda Bolger battalion, led by Yanworth and Josies Orders, who won the race back in 2015.
Yanworth, Neverushacon and Ballyboker Bridge were the first three in a banks race at Punchestown (3m) last month.
Neverushacon is better off at the weights, but Ballyboker Bridge is the only one to have raced over today’s longer trip (3m 6f).
It’s a big test for Yanworth and Jessica Harrington’s Neverushacon, who have never raced beyond 3m before, but we surely should back Jessica’s jumper at the weights. The 10.5 on BETDAQ looked big this morning.
Such a price was in deference to the punt on French raider Easysland, but it would be rare to win such a race with a five-year-old and his home form is all about heavy ground.
GETAWAY’S A 10.0 TAKE-AWAY
3.40 Cheltenham The 2018 Albert Bartlett winner, Kilbricken Storm, lost his way after injury, and returns after a long break and a wind op.
He’s eight now – nine in a couple of weeks or so- in a race for younger horses (8-10 have been from five to seven).
Falco Blitz is yet another Nicky Henderson youngster with the potential, trying a new trip, but was easy to back this morning, the money coming for Ask Ben, who they hope is stronger than when fading at the last in this year’s Albert Bartlett.
But favoured by the trip, and nicely in at the weights, is surely No Getaway , a half-brother to Grand National winner, One For Arthur. A tasty 10.0 taken on BETDAQ.
DAQMAN’S BETS
1.20 Cheltenham (win 20, win 10 place)
BET 1.5pts win, 3pts place CASWELL BAY
1.55 Cheltenham (win 10)
BET 3pts win CHEQUERED VIEW
2.30 Cheltenham (win 50 bull’s-eye bet)
BET 7pts win (nap) ROCK THE KASBAH
3.05 Cheltenham (win 20, win 10 place)
BET 2pts win and 4pts place NEVERUSHACON
3.40 Cheltenham (win 50, bull’s-eye bet)
BET 5pts win NO GETAWAY
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