YES! SIX WINNING DAYS IN A ROW: Wind and rain failed to blow Daqman off course yesterday as he hit SIX consecutive winning days with FIVE naps up (two of them maximum-stakes supernaps) and a total haul of 85.12 points.
Friday profit on the day win 17.5 points
WON 3-1 BETTIES BAY
WON 5-4 EL GAVILAN (nap)
Thursday profit on the day 36.10 points
WON 9-4 DIAMOND GEEZER (BETDAQ 5.9)
WON 8-11 STEDE BONNET (supernap)
WON (2nd 12-1) Irandando Has (CSF 13.06)
Wednesday profit on the day 3.4 points
WON 11-10 MBAPPE
Tuesday profit on the day 1.2 points
WON 4-5 MIDNIGHT CALL (nap)
Monday profit on the day 18 points
WON 1-4 LEADER D’ALLIER (supernap)
WON 9-2 MON CHAMPION
Sunday profit on the day 9 points
WON 5-2 ARGENTO BOY (nap)
DUBLIN FESTIVAL NOW SUNDAY-MONDAY: Leopardstown’s Gold Cup meeting today will now be run on Monday, with the Sunday Champion Hurdle card remaining in situ. That’s the plan but a morning inspection is scheduled for 8 am tomorrow. Wetherby’s Saturday card has been abandoned.
MARTATOR IF IN THE MOOD
⭕ 2.02 Sandown LAYS LOGIC It’s an ill wind (and rain) for favourites, with none outright taking this since 2016 and conditions favouring a slogger, like last year’s winner on heavy, 11-year-old Gunsight Ridge (Sandown form 1321).
He’s on the same mark but seemingly in a stronger field, and with another old-timer, Escapeandevade, aged 10 and trying to make it seven in a row first or second. But only one of those was a win and he’s crept up the handicap.
Gunsight Ridge beat Dr J T Eckleburg just half a length last year and is 4lb worse off.
Stone last was moody Martator, giving 8lb to the winner. He’s unreliable but 10lb better off and would win this on his Ascot form in November. Betdaq Betting Exchange 20.0 (5.3 three places)
KITZBUHEL A FUTURE KING
⭕ 2.40 Sandown An early skirmish before the delayed weekend Dublin battle between Willie Mullins (Kitzbuhel) and Gordon Elliott (Kala Conti), though Fergal O’Brien would point out that Sixmilebridge acts well on heavy ground.
Kala Conti, heading for the mares chase at Cheltenham, has the 7lb allowance, but Kitzbuhel beat three winners of five races immediately before or after he stopped them in the Kauto Star at Kempton on Boxing Day, and second and third at Punchestown in his November strike were both winners.
Confidence was so high at Kempton that one of Willie’s team told my man: ‘He’s at Kempton to show him the King George scene before he comes back to win it next Christmas.’
THE FORTUNATE MAN HIMSELF
⭕ 3.42 Sandown When Fortunate Man won on the Mildmay Course at Aintree in December, jockey Jonjo O’Neill Jr forecast that the six-year-old (now seven, of course) would be ‘one for the regional Nationals’.
Now here he is getting nearly two stone as he challenges the winner of three regional Nationals!
Mr Vango has won the Devon National, London National (here at Sandown) and the Midlands National.
When he returned last month, beaten only a short-head in the Becher Chase, trainer Sara Bradstock was loathe to commit to ‘the big one’ at Aintree in April, preferring to cite the Grand National Trial on February 14, ‘because he loves the ground at Haydock.’
If that’s his target, then maybe the Fortunate Man himself (J P McManus) has this Sandown handicap on a plate.
INSURRECTION IS CHAMPION
⭕ 2.20 Musselburgh (Scottish Champion Chase) The greatly revived Tizzard team (currently 3-5, still standing) has JPR One up in trip after doing all but win over 2m at Ascot and Cheltenham.
But last year’s winner, The Kalooki Kid (Traprain Law third), has his ground and has been saved for a repeat, though it would be a close-run thing if Insurrection does as well as he did here last time, level weights and prevented from winning only by a bad mistake three out.
DAQMAN’S BETS
on Betdaq Betting Exchange
2.02 Sandown (win-50 bull’s-eye bet)
BET 2.5pts win and place MARTATOR
2.20 Musselburgh (win 30)
BET 7.5pts win INSURRECTION
★ 2.40 Sandown (supernap)
BET 20pts win KITZBUHEL
3.42 Sandown (win 20)
BET 10pts win FORTUNATE MAN
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