FIVE WINNING DAYS OUT OF SIX: Daqman yesterday took his total profit to 282 points in five winning days from the last six. He started well with a 9-2 winner, then struggled until landing his fifth winning nap in the week. The full returns since Monday were published yesterday. Now add Saturday’s duo:
WON 5-4 POLITOLOGUE (20-point supernap)
WON 9-2 DOUX PRETENDER (+11 points on the day)
NOW FIVE NAPS UP OUT OF SIX: The naps sequence – all five winners odds against – looks like this:
WON 11-8 WILLIAM H BONNEY (Monday)
WON 11-10 SUPREMELY LUCKY (Tuesday)
WON 5-2 IRISH LASS (Thursday)
WON 5-2 PENN LANE (Friday)
WON 5-4 POLITOLOGUE, supernap (Saturday)
HORSES TO FOLLOW PLUS 171: Daqman’s horses to follow came up to the oche yesterday with a profit of 100 points from 20-point bets on five races. They added two winners out of three yesterday to take returns to 22212101, bringing the profit to 171.66 points:
WON 100-30 VINTAGE CLOUDS
WON 5-4 POLITOLOGUE
The value-challenge score is Pricewise 1 (+ 9), Daqman 1 (- 10.75). They clash in the Ladbrokes Troytown Chase today.
NATIVE RIVER LOOKS PURE GOLD
Mai, mai! The Press will make a monster of Bristol De Mai after his gallant Lancashire Chase success, and they will tout third home, Thistlecrack, for the King George.
In fact, bossing this particular race is Bristol’s fashion, and he was in my horses to follow at the time he won it last year until he soon spent his winnings in defeat from what his trainer describes as the ’aches and pains and niggles’ that he’s prone to.
I left him out of my ‘follow’ list this time and have no regrets, even though he held off Gold Cup winner, Native River, yesterday. It won’t happen again.
Native River’s power at the business end of the race was evident and he must go back in the list to dominate over further. Might Bite had no bite and two defeats now by Native River is writing on the wall.
Clan Des Obeaux, third to Might Bite in the Aintree Bowl in the Spring, had him 20 lengths behind yesterday and is clearly one to watch, only six years old. I hope Paul Nicholls doesn’t ask too much of him again.
If The Cap Fits seemed to win off a fast pace. In fact, they faded at the finish of the Ascot Hurdle and recorded a slow time overall. He’ll be short prices in the future and I prefer to find something less exposed now in his division.
Charbel, who put up a fight until outgunned by Politologue, could be right on the premises if stepped up to 3m, which would help his jumping.
Rising-star trainer Gavin Cromwell scored with, appropriately, Lever Du Soleil, at Gowran Park, making all in a maiden hurdle won in 2015 by Footpad.
The Ladbroke Novice Hurdle, won in 2014 by Douvan, went to Inca Gold at 25-1, the kind of shock we’re getting used to from Joseph O’Brien. Again, led or disputed lead all the way. Revised horses-to-follow list next week.
PALOMA CAN FOLLOW THE STARS
1.00 Navan (Monksfield Novice Hurdle) Gordon Elliott goes for a hat-trick today after four winners from only six attempts in this race: 13-1011.
Dinons has a double penalty, trying to land a six-timer, but has won his last four by a total of 73 lengths.
2.00 Navan A beginners’ chase that has produced Vautour, Douvan, Min and Al Boum Photo among five in a row for Willie Mullins. But no sign of him in this today: no runners; not a one.
With some of the fancied horses prone to jumping errors, punters will bank on Deloitte third and Supreme Novice Hurdle fourth Paloma Blue making the transition to fences. ‘A lovely, lovely horse,’ says trainer Henry de Bromhead.
WELL! DAVY STANDS BY OUT SAM
2.30 Navan (Ladbrokes Troytown Chase) English punters – the sort who reach for the glass before the topping up of their Guinness – are always being caught out by a little bit of Irish fun, namely winning a handicap with the reserve.
Gordon Elliott ,who has landed four Troytowns in a row, could field 13 runners today, including the reserve.
Elliott 12, reserves 3, is no way to start looking for a handicap punt but I will have to pick something, as Pricewise has nominated the race.
His headline says ‘Elliott the man to beat’. That’s shrewd stuff. But who would dare oppose the Elliott army?
Pricewise picks top weight Dounikos but is he there to keep the weight down for the 11 (or 12) other Elliott runners?
Davy Russell was impressed with Woods Well (14.5 BETDAQ) at Galway but Donagh Meyler takes over, as Davy sticks with his Cork Grand National winner, Out Sam (8.4). I’ll back both.
SILVA STEPS UP TO RIGHT TRIP
1.10 Uttoxeter Dr Richard Newland is three from four still standing, and Asylo, who got stuck in the mud at Sandown, can get back on track here in the better ground against the bridesmaid Quiz Master, who has failed to answer the question the last four times (2222 form figures). BETDAQ 7.8 taken.
2.40 Uttoxeter Sue Smith landed Vintage Clouds a winner for my horses to follow yesterday, and I’d promised myself a pound on Silva Eclipse (8.4 offers) when she stepped the grey up in trip; here goes. From the family of Brown Chamberlin.
DAQMAN’S BETS
1.00 Navan (win 10)
BET 4.5pts win DINONS
1.10 Uttoxeter (win 20)
BET 3pts win and place ASYLO
2.00 Navan (SP)
SUPERNAP: 20pts win PALOMA BLUE
2.30 Navan (each to win 50)
BULL’S-EYE BET: 6.75pts win OUT SAM
BULL’S-EYE BET: 3.75pts win WOODS WELL
2.40 Uttoxeter (win 20)
BET 2.75pts win and place SILVA ECLIPSE
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