DUNGENESS OUT TO MAKE ALL AT PLUMPTON: Daqman goes for six winning naps out of seven, with Dungeness at Plumpton, a front runner with battling qualities!
It happens to the best, and it happens to the rest. Paul Nicholls went to the well too often yesterday with Saphir Du Rheu. And I went with him.
Saphir Du Rheu had emptied. The bucket came up dry. And he is unlikely to put money back into our wallet until he goes chasing in the autumn.
My five naps in a row becomes five out of six and the curse of a sequence of short-priced winners is that one loser cuts deep into your profit.
I like to play at both ends of the market spectrum, and sod’s law that my big-odds, big-race bets at the weekend, Smoking Aces and Tour Des Champs, were also in at the finish without winning, despite both being gambles.
As my old mother used to say: ‘There’s always somebody worse off than you are.’ Like Rhys Flint and Tony McCoy.
Flint, who won the Saphir Du Rheu race yesterday on Kayf Moss a week after his return from breaking a leg, promptly got a whip ban, so missing the Kayf Moss ride at the Cheltenham Festival.
And McCoy? Are you mad, Daqman; McCoy badly off? Impossible! Isn’t he motoring towards yet another jockeys’ title..
In fact, though – I never thought I’d see the day – the great A P admits he is struggling for rides. I chose the word with care. Or rather, he did. ‘Struggling’ is the word he used in his weekend column.
And you see it again in black and white on today’s cards. Just two rides at Plumpton, and, within 65 minutes, he’s away for an early bath.
McCoy hasn’t ridden right through the card for 13 days, since when he’s had three days with just one or two rides; four including today. He’s a huge 9.4 with BETDAQ to be top jockey at the Cheltenham Festival, behind odds-on favourite Ruby Walsh and behind Barry Geraghty.
McCoy rides today in the Barry Geraghty Blog Maiden Hurdle for ‘the guv’nor’, J P McManus, the six-year-old’s first hurdle after three runs in bumpers, the first one a winner.
But he’s on the old stamping ground of Gary and Jamie Moore who team up with Civil War. Minority Interest has already gone close over CD and Albert Bridge, a heavy-ground Flat stayer, should improve on his Kempton hurdles debut.
McCoy must then outsmart and outShine a dual chase winner on a grey mare, She Ranks Me, with one run, one crashing fall, over fences.
Front-runner Dungeness (3.10) showed determination to get back up when headed at Warwick and the 7lb from Tealissio should be enough.
The importance of being able to race right-handed is thrown up by Willie Mullins’ worry over On His Own, who may miss the Grand National for the clockwise Punchestown Gold Cup.
Blue Kascade (4.20) won as he liked over CD earlier this month yet has managed to sneak into this lower-class race, in which his 10lb rise doesn’t look enough. None of the other runners has ever won going right-handed.
In the feature race of the day, Ifyousayso (3.50) is up in the weights but drops back into novice company, a winner three times when going clockwise, one of them on this course. Makes the long trip from the south-west.
DAQMAN’S BETS (singles are to win 20 points; one winner and we show a small profit)
BET 8pts win (nap) DUNGENESS (3.10 Plumpton)
BET 6pts win BLUE KASCADE (4.20 Musselburgh)
DAQ MULTIPLES: 1pt double and 1pt treble the above two with IFYOUSAYSO (3.50 Musselburgh)
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