NOW ANOTHER NAPS TREBLE LANDED: Daqman yesterday scored his third consecutive nap for the second week running, declaring O O Seven (WON 5-6) a banker ‘licensed to thrill’. The Wednesday-Friday hat-trick came through:
WON 11-10 (Wednesday) Lady Karina
WON 11-4 (Thursday) A Little Magic
WON 5-6 (Friday) O O Seven (banker)
THREE FROM THREE: 34 POINTS PROFIT: Daqman has done it all in the last two weeks: naps, doubles, trebles, forecasts, big outsiders. Yesterday in his nap-happy new year he made a profit of 34 points with doubles and a treble on the Nicky Henderson Huntingdon trio:
WON 7-4 Divin Bere
WON 5-6 O O Seven
WON 8-15 Burbank
Daqman leads Pricewise of the Racing Post 9-4 this season, 33 points ahead of his arch rival. They clash today in the 2.25 and 3.35 Warwick, and 2.40 Kempton.
DON’T PASS THE PLUNGE HORSE
1.35 Punchestown (Amateur National) For the past few years, the Coyningham Cup, which used to be run in May, has been renamed the Amateur National. Today it attracts Jamie Codd (Riverside City) and Derek O’Connor (Canaly), who have taught many a professional how to ride horses.
Michael Hourigan (Undressed), Stephen Mahon (He Rock’s) and Dermot McLoughlin (Some Drama) are the trainers in form, and the hidden horse is It Came To Pass (Jim Culloty), closely related to the same stable’s Gold Cup winner, Lord Windermere. Better than the bare form and a plunge horse this morning, in from 26.0 to 7.0.
2.10 Punchestown (Moscow Flyer Novice Hurdle) A Grade 2 for which all the runners step up from ordinary novice company.
Dr Mikey, a scorer at Cork in December, has to give them a couple of pounds but the six-lengths second has won seven lengths since.
But, even better it would seem, the Clonmel runner-up to Crack Mome (beaten the equivalent of 15 lengths) needed only hands and heels riding to slam a field of 15 at Limerick. Banker.
14.5 FOR LATE JOHNSON RUN
2.40 Kempton (Lanzarote Hurdle) A million miles better than an all-weather race at Newmarket could ever be.
The stats say stick to improvers aged five and six (8-10) and you can’t go far wrong. Doesyourdogbite, Jaleo and Kalondra tick the boxes, though all up in the weights fior exposing some of their talents.
Neil Mulholland is back to form and has booked Richard Johnson for Kalondra (14.5 on BETDAQ looks big). The race will be run to suit this come-from-behind horse.
3.15 Kempton Kruzhlinin (6.2 on BETDAQ), back to form over hurdles on the last day, is 8lb higher than when winning this last year.
Sandy Beach is a good jumper but a quirky character (unseated rider twice in four starts until back to form on the last day). The other potential improver, also seven, is Abricot de l’Oasis, but a front-runner stepped up in trip.
The handicapper punished No Duffer a stone for winning the Stayer’s Chase Final at Haydock last March and following up at Perth but he won again at Doncaster in December and Grand National plans don’t seem out of place for this courageous performer: 6.8 offers this morning.
SUCCESS SECOND TIME ROUND
2.25 Warwick A hurdles then a chase marathon here today. Cogry, a Warwick winner, is used to a distance of ground, and switched successfully from fences to hurdles on the last day at Cheltenham.
Masters Hill was runner-up in a Graded hurdle on this course before going chasing, and he had his first hurdles start on Boxing Day since March, 2014.
His Colin Tizzard stablemate Fourth Act reverts to hurdles after 10 chases, including fourth in the Grade-3 Ascot Gold Cup in October. Fourth Act is 8lb lower of hurdles and has Angus Cheleda taking off 10lb (3-4 for the yard).
Saint John Henry is up 7lb and two grades higher than his CD win on the last day of December. There’s a big swing in the weights for City Supreme (first-time tongue-tie) to turn around Doncaster form with Lough Derg Leader. Clondaw Clan is bred to do well, stepped up in trip.
An open race. I shall assume that 7lb and 10lb claims off Fourth Act (16.0 on BETDAQ) and City Supreme (18.0) could make a huge difference in the soft ground.
3.35 Warwick (Classic) Three of the last four winners have been set 10st 12lb or lower, which is par for the race (since 1992 just 3-18 above 11st 1lb.), and the going is deep today.
Young horses, aged six and seven, are only 2-24, with horses aged eight, nine and 10 amassing 11-13 as a group since 1994.
Sego Success (10.5 on BETDAQ early mouse) was favourite but fell in this race last year. He has been prepped for revenge in this, 6lb lower and blinkered first time.
The winner that day, Russe Blanc, is claimed off to race from the same mark, but second, third and fifth, Midnight Prayer, Houblon des Obeaux and Vivaldi Collinges are all up in the weights, Vivaldi by 10lb.
There’s a whole bunch of them well placed in the handicap: One For Arthur (first-time tongue-tie), Kaki De La Pree, Goodtoknow (first-time blinkers); maybe even Knockanrawley, a glass horse but who always goes well first run back after a lay-off.
But I prefer 18.0-offered Spookydooky, 10lb lower than when fourth in the Midlands National as a novice, and trainer Jonjo O’Neill says his outsider is in great form.
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked to win 30 points unless stated)
BACK 5pts win and place IT CAME TO PASS (1.35 Punchestown)
BANKER: 20pts win (nap) CRACK MOME (2.10 Punchestown)
BULL’S-EYE BETS (win 50): 3.3pts win and place FOURTH ACT, and 3pts win and place CITY SUPREME (2.25 Warwick)
BACK 2.2pts win and place KALONDRA (2.40 Kempton)
BACK 5.5pts win on each KRUZHLININ and NO DUFFER (3.15 Kempton)
BULL’S-EYE BETS: 3pts win SEGO SUCCESS, and 1.75pts win and place SPOOKYDOOKY (3.35 Warwick)
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