7-1 WINNER PUTS SOME MAGIC INTO THE DAY: Daqman went all out for a wizard day for Colin Tizzard yesterday. Result: Royal Vacation (WON 7-1) and Robinsfirth (2nd 7-1) who, apart from a couple of bad jumps, might have lifted the Peter Marsh. It should have been Robinsfirst in a particularly galling outcome for Daqman (see story below: ROBIN NOT JUST A WINTER BIRD).
SUPERNAP DOUBLE CROSSES THE IRISH SEA: Daqman tries to bite back at his bad luck today with two supernaps, one English, one Irish. And he has a win-30 bet to pull back three quarters of the supernap stakes, which surely won’t be needed! Famous last words.
ROBIN NOT JUST A WINTER BIRD
You’ve heard about the one that got away. How about TWO that got away! Both big winners yesterday, Cyrname and Wakanda, were in my horses-to-follow list.
Had they remained in it for yesterday’s racing, the list – now my Fortune Cookies for the festival season – would have been 776 points in profit.
But, instead of seeing their mediocre preps as fitness races, I thought they’d been going backwards, and deleted them.
My man in the long grass failed to inform me of Cyrname’s rapid progress under special treatment at Ditcheat. Cyrname made every yard, backed like a good thing, and will never see a handicap again.
However, yer man did manage to tout from the potato patch at Farmer Tizzards with go-go-go recommendations for Robinsfirth and Royal Vacation.
Robinsfirth could be forgiven the lapses that cost him the Peter Marsh won by Wakanda, after his long absence, and I shall add him to the list for Cheltenham in the Spring.
I am also encouraged to add Silver Streak – the Mohawk Chapman on ITV said he would definitely have won – after his second in the Champion Hurdle Trial at Haydock. But I didn’t like the way the grey carried his head, surely the reason for his errors.
I won’t restore Cyrname to the festivals list – as he needs a right-handed track – though Punchestown would be interesting.
We should get masses of clues from the Cheltenham trials next weekend and the Dublin festival the weekend after. But first don’t miss Thursday’s Thyestes Chase.
ANYTHING GOES IN ‘GOLD’ RACE
2.10 Thurles This Grade-2 chase (2m 4f) produced consecutive Gold Cup winners (2016-17) in Don Cossack and Sizing John, who scored off 153.
That suggests there’s hope for the top ratings here, Sub Lieutenant (157) and Total Recall (153), but both are 10-years-old and the implication is rather that this is a sub-standard Kinloch Brae (the name the race used to be known by).
Don Cossack was eight when he first won it, and nine when he struck gold, but it’s hard to see last year’s winner of this, A Toi Phil, winning it again never mind making a mark at Cheltenham.
A much more likely winner, and the progressive horse of today’s race, is Tout Est Permis (‘anything goes’), who fair bolted up from a big field for the Troytown, with the third home, Magic Of Light, completing three wins from four runs yesterday, with Tout Est Permis her only conqueror in that spell.
HERE’S THE SUPERNAPS DOUBLE
2.40 Thurles My ‘find’ in this mares’ novices’ chase (2m 4f) was Vroum Vroum Mag, who was carried over to my next season’s horses to follow when she won the mares’ race at Cheltenham the following year. It seems I’m loyal to the ladies but not to the geldings!
Willie Mullins, her trainer, runs a sequence horse here, Camelia De Cotte, whose jumping seemed to improve no end between successes at Clonmel and Cork.
She should beat former stable companion, Meri Devie, whom I dropped from last year’s horses to follow (but no regrets)!
3.25 Exeter My pin-up girl, Venetia Williams, is still placing them well and I vowed to follow the Kayf Tara grey, Yalltari after he jumped so well at Chepstow.
King Of Realms was a long way last of four at Doncaster in December but is better than that, and seems the sole opposition to the favourite.
DAQMAN’S BETS
2.10 Thurles (win 30)
BET 10pts win TOUT EST PERMIS
2.40 Thurles (Irish supernap)
BET 20pts win CAMELIA DE COTTE
3.25 Exeter (English supernap)
BET 20pts win YALLTARI
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