9-2 NAP! 11 WINNERS IN FIVE DAYS: Daqman continued his winning spree of two or more winners a day this week, yesterday’s including Jessber’s Dream (WON 9-2), napped as a cert for a BETDAQ place at better odds than the favourite for a win! Here are the 11 in SP order:
WON 8-1 W Six Times (Tues)
WON 9-2 Jessber’s Dream (Fri nap)
WON 7-2 Philba (Tues)
WON 5-2 Bredon Hill Lad (Wed nap)
WON 9-4 Billy No Name (Mon)
WON 7-4 Stiletto (Thur)
WON 15-8 Gonalston Cloud (Mon)
WON 1-1 Impulsive American (Wed)
WON 10-11 Unioniste (Thur)
WON 4-11 Top Notch (Thur)
WON 2-7 Protek Des Flos (Fri)
THREE-WAY CLASH WITH PRICEWISE: Daqman leads Pricewise of the Racing Post 25-10 this jumps season (overall 271-106) in their value challenge. They clash today in the 1.50, 3.00 and 3.35 at Ascot.
BUFFALO HUNTING A TOP NATIONAL ROLE
A rare National star could rise today! Grand National winners who went on from success in today’s trial at Haydock Park are great names in Aintree history: Freebooter, Red Rum, Party Politics, but come few and far between.
And the Bobbyjo Chase at Fairyhouse later this afternoon has done better recently with the 2005 Aintree winner, Hedgehunter, and the so-popular 2010 runner-up, Black Apalachi.
While one of my current Grand National hopes, Cause Of Causes, swerves the Bobbyjo, his trainer Gordon Elliott has Mala Beach in the race.
And he will be keeping a close eye on Broadway Buffalo in the Haydock Park trial, the horse which ran second to Cause Of Causes in the 4m National Hunt Chase at last year’s Cheltenham Festival when both were only seven.
2.40 Haydock (Grand National Trial) David Pipe is very keen on 5.5 BETDAQ offer Broadway Buffalo, who has the tongue-tie back on, so wears all the aids that won him the Tommy Whittle on the Haydock course last season.
He then ran in this Trial a year ago but fell as favourite when looking for all the world as if Conor O’Farrell had only to press the button.
Broadway Buffalo responded to a change of jockey in the NH Chase. His new partner that day, Katie Walsh, is back on board for the first time in today’s crucial test for Aintree.
Rigadin De Beauchene has been winner and second in the Trial, and is preferred to Mountainous who would prefer the race to be run at Chepstow.
Cloudy Too’s Peter Marsh success over shorter has skied his rating but he did win the Rowland Meyrick off a similar mark in his younger days. Small field; great little slog in the mud.
LION SET FOR CELEBRATION AT ASCOT..
1.50 Ascot (Reynoldstown Chase) A top pointer to Cheltenham over the years, producing RSA scorers Albertas Run and O’Faolain’s Boy and runner-up Burton Port.
All bar Onenightinvienna are in the RSA in March, some of them dually engaged in the NH Chase. ‘Vienna’ is heading for the Grand National, which is to the fore today, with two top trials being run at Haydock and Fairyhouse.
The form of 3.3 BETDAQ offer Drumacoo via Fletchers Flyer and Blaklion puts him well ahead here, and back-to-back success last time he returned from an absence suggests that he can overcome the bounce factor.
Vyta Du Roc’s form with Bouvreuil and The Saint James is modest, and Ballyalton has a few pounds to find, with further improvement unlikely at the age of nine. As you’d expect of young novices’ trial, there have been no winners over the age of seven in the decade.
Some of Paul Nicholls are bouncing back and Le Mercurey was his big stable dark horse at the start of the season: 14.5 for a pound in a 103 orange and a reverse forecast on Ladbrokes with Drumacoo.
2.25 Ascot (Celebration Chase) Vieux Lion Rouge, normally a good jumper, and Bally Beaufort, related on the dam’s side to Grand National winner Comply Or Die, are both engaged at Aintree, though David Pipe’s ‘Lion’ is bred more for today’s trip.
Front-runner Walford Salad is up nearly a stone in three months and the revised rating seemed to anchor him last time. The horses placed behind him at Taunton and Towcester were chase maidens.
Sausalito Sunrise has a tough task giving weight all round, and Spookydooky needs to have improved 38lb on Bally Beaufort since November.
There are 0.3 points separating the first three in a 102% BETDAQ market, as I write, but I’ll have my pound on Vieux Lion Rouge at 4.1, and hope to celebrate in the Old Red Lion tonight.
.. AND DRAGON LOOKS AN IMPROVER
3.00 Ascot The last five winners of this all carried 10st 7lb or less, two of them trained by Nigel Twiston-Davies (Arctic Gold) and David Pipe (Fingertips), though the Pipe runner today is a bit young for this company.
Arctic Gold is the ‘hidden horse’ of the race, a tempting 14.5 in a 104% orange this morning, dropped right back to his winning trip. He jumps and gallops to the line.
Lightly-raced improver Montdragon (5.7 offers) looks the danger to all, with the likely good gallop on his side.
Sirop De Menthe has been forced into class 2 by a stone rise in the ratings; Roadie Joe is 30lb higher than in the autumn, and both look just out of it now.
Mistakes at the business end of his race at Taunton cost Pull The Chord and he still has a big chance on his defeat of Sirop de Menthe at Exeter. Different Gravey returns after a long lay-off.
Debdebdeb takes a keen hold and is up in trip here, with nothing in the mare’s pedigree to support such a move, but she got 2m on the Flat and is on the right spot in the handicap.
3.35 Ascot Chase This Grade 1 has seen champions come and go, among them Kauto Star and Monet’s Garden, and including one that’s had to be shuffled back into everyone’s Cheltenham deck this year, Cue Card (winner in 2013).
I’m hoping that it continues the resurgence of another equine revenant, Triolo d’Alene, 7.4 on BETDAQ today and one of my bets in the Grand National.
Triolo has had wind ops. So, too, Dynaste, who faces his old nemesis Silviniaco Conti; he’s been placed behind him in the King George and the Aintree Bowl. Tough call; stick to my horse to follow.
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked to win 20 points)
BET 8.6pts win DRUMACOO, and 1pt win and place LE MERCUREY (1.50 Ascot)
BET 6pts win (nap) VIEUX LION ROUGE (2.25 Ascot)
BET 4.4pts win BROADWAY BUFFALO and 3pts win CLOUDY TOO (2.40 Haydock)
BET 4.3pts win MONTDRAGON and 1.5pts win and place ARCTIC GOLD (3.00 Ascot)
BET 3pts win TRIOLO D’ALENE (3.35 Ascot)
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