BOY! GREAT 10-1 WIN FOR DAQMAN: Daqman yesterday shot 55 points clear of Pricewise to a single-unit stake when he landed the old Great Yorkshire with Ziga Boy (WON 10-1 from 13.5 on BETDAQ) plus a banker to go 13-4 up on the season. His winners yesterday were:
WON 10-1 Ziga Boy (from 13.5 BETDAQ offers)
WON 11-4 Wholestone
WON 1-2 Un De Sceaux (banker)
WON 1-5 Vroum Vroum Mag (Fortune Cookies)
BID FOR FOUR NAPS FOUR TIMES: Un De Sceaux was the third winning nap of the week for Daqman, making it 15 up in January after four naps a week in the first three weeks of the year. Today’s feature-race value clash with Pricewise is in the 2.30 Leopardstown, and today’s nap to try to make it four fours in a row is in the 2.00 at the same meeting
CHARMIN CHANCE AT BETDAQ 7.8
1.30 Leopardstown Tony Martin has aimed 13 horses at this in the last four seasons and produced figures of 1213. The two winners have never won another race, all of which suggests that this has been a special target.
The stable runs two today, both four-year-olds getting a stone from 10 of the 13 runners on the card, both tongue-tied, which also suggests today is ‘go.’
Prince Charmin, a Tramore maiden Flat winner on good ground for John Oxx, was reckoned good enough for a Fred Winter entry, and showed promise when unfancied at 50-1 in his first hurdle here at Leopardstown over Christmas.
Willie Mullins’ talking horse Melon is well entered up (three possible targets at Cheltenham) and is as short as 8.0 in the BETDAQ ante-post orange for the Supreme Novices Hurdle.
Melon has taken an awful long time to be readied for a race and, win or lose, his 2-1 on this morning is not value when Prince Charmin can be had at 7.8, with his place offers (three chances) better than those for Melon to win (one chance).
LET’S LEAD THE LAYERS A DANCE
2.00 Leopardstown Another novice hurdle but this is a high-flying Grade 2. It launched a four-timer for Hidden Cyclone; just missed the Albert Bartlett with Boston Bob (second, sandwiched in among four successes) and its last two ‘finds’ are in line for chase honours: Outlander and A Toi Phil.
Willie Mullins, who has saddled those two among five consecutive winners of this – four of them favourite – today fields three, headed by Lets Dance, who is getting weight all round.
Lets Dance has already won a Grade 3 by 17 lengths with the runner-up franking the form next time out.
Peace News has fallen apart, pitched straight into Grade-1 contests after winning a Cork maiden, and Henry De Bromhead has to put him together again, stepped up in trip.
Blood Crazed Tiger’s sequence was stopped by Death Duty at Naas, and he now has a tongue-tie added to his hood as if to squeeze the last drop of blood from him. His future is probably behind him, and absentee Monalee was nearer to Death Duty at Navan.
Joey Sasa is closest in the market to Lets Dance on the promise of his 2m 2f success on today’s course over a subsequent big field winner. His half-brother won at 2m 6f but Joey is eight now and success for him would demote this as a Cheltenham trial for promising youngsters.
ROUGE COULD THIEVE THIS..
2.30 Leopardstown (Arkle Novice Chase) After Annie Power, now Faugheen (misses the Champion Hurdle later on today) and Min in this one (knocked a knee), Mullins stars have been dimmed this week.
But Un De Sceaux, who won this race two years ago, jumped superbly yesterday and the stable still has two chances here against two of Henry De Bromhead’s, led by the favourite, Identity Thief.
Identity Thief pulled up lame behind Min at the Christmas meeting here, and nothing to explain that has ever come to light.
He may well win but you woiuldn’t want to take short odds about it, and Bleu Et Rouge (Grade 1 over hurdles like Identity Theif) could improve the proverbial ton in only his second steeplechase. I took 4.6 on BETDAQ
CANYON CLEAR BEST OVERALL
3.30 Leopardstown (Irish Champion Hurdle) After five in a row for Hurricane Fly, Faugheen took over the mantle last year but we are unlikely to see him now until Cheltenham, if at all.
The Mullins yard has an able deputy in Nichols Canyon, who has never been out of the frame in 14 starts still standing and won eight of them, seven at Grade-1 level.
But, in the grey’s very first Grade 1 over today’s CD at Christmas, Petit Mouchoir, formerly a winner with Mullins, beat Nichols Canyon (seven lengths), Ivanovich Gorbatov and Footpad in a full dress rehearsal for this race.
Nichols Canyon failed to show his usual zest that day and, on overall form, is the bet at the morning BETDAQ offers: 3.55 Nichols Canyon and 1.55 Petti Mouchoir is not representatiuve. We have to wait and see whether the grey’s 12lb rise for that Cjristmas win is valid.
HE SHOULD WIN BY MILES!
2.50 Sedgefield With a second entry declared a non-runner, Johnny Farrelly – 50% winners here – may be travelling 600 miles just to run Ascendant in this seller! The horse has won two sellers before. Out of two.
3.10 Fontwell Remiluc (6.6 BETDAQ offers) made a hash of his chase efforts after a good hurdles win over this CD in November. He is 10lb higher now, reverting to timber, but won very easily that day, and is an each-way bet to beat, or get close to, the novice Golden Birthday, who had to be hard driven to score on the last day.
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked to win 20 points except the banker)
BACK 3pts win and place PRINCE CHARMIN (1.30 Leopardstown)
BANKER: 20pts win (nap) LETS DANCE (2.00 Leopardstown)
BACK 5.5pts win BLEU ET ROUGE (2.30 Leopardstown)
BACK 4pts win and place REMILUC (3.10 Fontwell)
BACK 7.5pts win NICHOLS CANYON (3.30 Leopardstown)
DAQ MULTIPLES: 4pts win double Lets Dance (2.00 Leopardstown) and Ascendant (2.50 Sedgefield)
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