11-2 GOLD STRIKE ON NEW YEAR’S DAY: ‘Mares’ Form Is Rock Solid,’ declared Daqman’s New Year’s Day Cheltenham headline and, after an 11-1 second for 50 points, then a nap beaten a neck, dual Mares’ Hurdle winner Maries’ Rock didn’t let him down, a six-lengths scorer at 11-2.
Silver! 2nd 11-1 STOLEN SILVER
Silver! 2nd 4-5 STATTLER
GOLD! WON 11-2 MARIE’S ROCK
PIPE OUTSIDER FOR PLUMPTON NATIONAL: Today Daqman checks out the stables in form and analyses the Sussex National at Plumpton where he rates last year’s result but reckons David Pipe has a live 12.0 outsider.
FOLLOWING THE DALY STAR..
Trainers in form are an essential betting ingredient. This spotlight on stables doing well is inevitably a weekend wrap, or in the case of Henry Daly, a weekend Rapper.
HENRY DALY The horse of that name gave him his fifth winner since Boxing Day, with the stable on a current 3-5. A nice price was had for all with not one of them favourite!
The wide range of winners shows a Daly skill in placing his horses: success has come in novice hurdles, handicap hurdles, a chase and a bumper.
He’s struck from Ludlow to Warwick via Huntingdon to Doncaster and back to Rapper’s 8-1 romp at Cheltenham.
Henry’s next runners are at Hereford on Wednesday and Ludlow on Friday.
SUE SMITH Her winners usually come together in a starburst and, since Boxing Day, she has chalked up The Paddy Pie (WON Wetherby 18-1), Just Jess (WON Catterick 7-2) and Edgar Allan Poe (WON Catterick 28-1).
Be warned that her best strike rates are when she travels South from West Yorkshire, particularly to Kempton (33% hits).
Jamie Snowden had a double up yesterday, while Paul Nicholls (nine winners since Boxing Day) plus Ben Pauling (seven) and Charlie Longsdon (five) are absolutely motoring.
CHARLIE LONGSDON has a runner at Hereford on Wednesday, where he has a 21% win strike-rate with 50% of runners in the first four and a return of 94 points to a pound on everything!
BEN PAULING If the going is on the deep side at Ffos Las, look out for Bobby Bow, a beaten favourite at Carlisle.
It’s money only lent; just a matter of when this dual winner on heavy can get his toe (fetlock?) into the ground. Bobby has a choice of two Ffos Las races on Thursday.
FERGAL O’BRIEN Whatever’s happened to Fergal O’Brien? 101 winners already this season but with letters after his name in the last couple of days.
No, not a mench in the New Year’s Honours List but a sinking feeling in the mud, with returns of P2P0PPPP.
14.0 IMPERIAL MONEY MINT
⭕ 1.00 Plumpton Here’s a Frankel gelding, with Harry Cobden a special booking. The horse is Prince Imperial, second in the Cesarewitch trial at Newmarket in September and conqueror of the very smart Miranda in October (soft) before his hurdles debut second 13 days back.
Master Chewy is twice placed over hurdles but fell in a third, and Hansard’s success came on good ground, first run for a new stable.
Swapped had takers at 39.0 but only to a pound! And the rest of the field was being shunned this morning from offers of 172.0 to 420.0.
Betdaq Betting Exchange 14.0 Prince Imperial
KOOL CHANCE OF AYR REPEAT
⭕ 2.45 Ayr Last year’s winner, Wakool, is up 18lb, though still looking progressive here over the CD in October and dropping down now from a Grade 3 at Haydock, where the company was not surprisingly a bit much for him.
Ronan McNally has withdrawn his hat-trick winner of a year ago, Vee Dancer, and instead saddles The Jam Man, with champion Brian Hughes trying to steer him free of a long tangle of losing races.
BETDAQ value 2.7 Wakool
PEMBERLEY POISED FOR THIS
⭕ 3.00 Plumpton (Sussex National) This is where last Tuesday’s Welsh Grand National hero, The Two Amigos, started winning in 2019.
Atakan and Grace A Vous Enki both have potential at age seven, traveling South from Wincanton territory for Joe Tizzard and Paul Nicholls.
Atakan is up in trip and his Plumpton win, heavily backed, was on good ground. ‘Enki’ is a bit of an enigma: heavy-ground chase winner at Auteuil, he has raced mainly over hurdles on a sound surface in UK since moving to Paul Nicholls.
Runner-up last year, Pemberley is back for more off a similar mark after a run back. He has won second time out in two of the last three seasons.
Blame The Game, three times a winner at Plumpton, pulled up in the race last year but is currently 4-5, though his success is at a lower level.
David Pipe specialises in stayers and Sidi Ismael won the Lincolnshire National a year or so back, and ran well over hurdles at Cheltenham in November.
Nearly Perfect, a one-time solid improver, has been given a chance by the handicapper but it’s almost two years since we’ve seen him, and most runners from his stable have been running badly at big prices.
I See You Well is 111013 over fences at Plumpton; back to form at Sandown in December but prefers top of the ground and a big drifter this morning.
BETDAQ value 4.8 Pemberley, 12 Sidi Ismael
DAQMAN’S BETS
1.00 Plumpton (win 40)
BET 3pts win, 1pt place PRINCE IMPERIAL
2.45 Ayr (win 12, nap)
BET 7pts win WAKOOL
3.00 Plumpton (each to win 12)
BET 3pts win PEMBERLEY
BET 1pt win SIDI ISMAEL
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