SUPERNAP AND TWO FROM THREE: Daqman was over the moon about his courageous supernap yesterday and followed up with a 9-4 winner to give him two in three races.
Yesterday: Profit on the day 34.16
WON 8-15 MOON OVER AMERICA (supernap)
WON 9-4 PESCATORIUS (BETDAQ 4.0)
First day of Cheltenham
CAN IRISH PARK THE BUS?
FUGITIF LOOKS HOME FREE
SUD THE DANGER TO JONBON
THE BUCKS STOPS HERE..
WHAT’S BRUANT FOR MARTIN?
CAN IRISH PARK THE BUS?
⭕ 1.10 Cheltenham Here comes the autumn meeting.. and, of course, here comes the rain so welcome to the Irish.
We have to put up with a conditional jockeys’ hurdle followed by a veterans’ chase to replace the abandoned cross-country.
Five-year-olds dominate this (8-10) but the market mover this morning was one nearly twice that age, Irish raider Priory Park, who won four Points in a row at 3m for today’s rider, Eoin Staples.
The winning Staples connection continued when he moved to Edward Power in September, but dropped back close on today’s trip and on the soft. BETDAQ 13.5.
Of the 5yo contingent, Marlacco has a lack o’fight! Beaten 3-1 or shorter in 7-8 hurdles starts.
A Pai de Nom seems sure to run well but will be a short price, so I’m having a pound on Kap Vert, son of the sire of A Plus Tard and Clan des Obeaux and could be suited by this step up in trip. BETDAQ 20.0 taken.
FUGUTIF LOOKS HOME FREE
⭕ 1.45 Cheltenham (Veterans Chase) Fugitif ran in tomorrow’s Autumn Gold Cup last year and then finished third in the December Gold Cup at the next meeting.
In fact, today’s drop in class is for his 12th chase spread across the two Cheltenham tracks, old and new.
I could get 4.4 on BETDAQ this morning, and he really shouldn’t have any trouble faced with this opposition:
Mister Coffey last won November 2020
Escaria Ten last won December 2020
Eldorado Allen last won February 2022
Can You Call last won December 2022
Gunsight Ridge is best at 2m; Lord Baddesley and Numitor prefer the going on top. Dreal Deal’s stable is currently 1-27.
SUD THE DANGER TO JONBON
⭕ 2.55 Cheltenham Chase Just three horses have shared first prize in six of the last nine runnings of this Schloer Chase but Jonbon could land a hat-trick and best them all.
His autumn start-ups are 1111, with overall a chase record of 13-17. This does not reflect heart-in-the-mouth rounds here: bad mistakes, and beaten 18 length in the Champion Chase.
But in his career he has won almost £1.4m in earnings from 18 wins and five seconds in 23 races; never out of the first two.
Old rival Edwardstone has been placed behind him five times, twice in this race, and he’s won only once since the 2022 Tingle Creek.
If you’re looking for an improver to stake his claim to the 2m title, you choose between Matata and L’Eau Du Sud, both from stables in cracking form: Skelton 5-8 Monday-Tuesday; Twiston-Davies currently 6-10 still standing.
Matata is a CD winner on 157, level with Edwardstone. But he made a bad mistake at Aintree and trailed in 46 lengths behind Jonbon.
L’Eau Du Sud (155) steps up from the novice ranks where he was impressive at Sandown and finished close up in the Arkle. Betdaq Betting Exchange 4.6.
THE BUCKS STOPS HERE..
⭕ 3.30 Cheltenham (Hyde Novices Hurdle) This Albert Bartlett trial went to Nigel and Willy Twiston Davies last year. But the race took ‘Twiston turns’ this morning!
Sam Twiston-Davies was booked by Anthony Honeyball for Fountains Blenheim, with Nico de Boinville down for Nigel and Willy’s Intosomethinggood. Then ‘Fountains’ was taken out this morning.
I’m not into any of this (four-year-olds don’t win it), so I’ll try the Irish again, with my pound on 12.0 offer Kings Bucks (Henry De Bromhead), related on the dam’s side to one of my old favourites, Cyrname.
WHAT’S BRUANT FOR MARTIN?
⭕ 4.00 Cheltenham A novices’ handicap hurdle which has turned up winners at 28-1 and 33-1 three times in the last six seasons.
So you might expect similar odds about one with form figures of 0/030/. But hey, Alphonse Le Grande is trained by ace plotter of old, Tony Martin.
The six-year-old won the Chester Plate, Northumberland Vase and Newmarket Cesarewitch in a grand 2024 Flat season yet is thrown in off bottomweight here.
But hold your horses! Just when punters ‘look no further’, they have to do a double take at Bruant, ridden by British champion jumps jockey, Sean Bowen. Trainer? Tony Martin. BETDAQ around 15.5.
DAQMAN’S BETS on Betdaq Betting Exchange
1.10 Cheltenham (win 20)
BET 1.6pts win PRIORY PARK
BET 1pts win and place KAP VERT
★ 1.45 Cheltenham(win 21, nap)
BET 6pts win FUGITIF
2.55 Cheltenham(win 15)
BET 4pts win L’EAU DU SUD
3.30 Cheltenham (win 12)
BET 1pt win and place KINGS BUCKS
4.00 Cheltenham (win 15 each)
BET 5pts win ALPHONSE LE GRANDE
BET 1pt win and place BRUANT
First-day doubles
2 x 2pts FUGITIF
X X
JONBON, L’EAU DU SUD
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