50-POINT BULL’S-EYE HIT AND 2-1 SUPERNAP AMONG FIVE WINNERS: It was a walk in the park for Daqman yesterday, winning five Saturday feature races out of six, including the Becher Chase with Walk In The Mill (WON 8-1 as win-50 bull’s-eye bet) and the Tingle Creek with supernap Defi Du Seuil (WON 2-1), his fourth in row:
WON 8-1 WALK IN THE MILL (Becher Chase)
WON 6-1 MACK THE MAN (9.6 taken on BETDAQ)
WON 3-1 GO WHATEVER (5.9 taken on BETDAQ)
(2ND 16-1 Dream Berry same race: 52.33 Ladbrokes CSF)
WON 2-1 DEFI DU SEUIL (Tingle Creek supernap)
WON 8-13 FIDDLERONTHEROOF
DAQMAN BEATS HIS OWN WEEKEND PROFIT: 152 POINTS IN ONE DAY: Daqman’s overall profit was 152.50 in just one day, which follows profits of 148.65 and 124.75 in the last two weekends. He is now 272 points clear in his challenge to Pricewise and his special bets total 728 points:
ACCOUNTS UPDATE
Daqman 13, Pricewise 4 (+182.30 to -90.00)
Bull’s-eye bets 45% (+101.20 from 5-11)
Bulls-eye naps 50% (+256pts from 8-16)
All Daily Naps 53% (+105.01 from 14-26)
Supernaps 66% (+84.68 from 6-9)
SUPERNAPS UPDATE
WON 4-5 CHAMP
WON 10-11 FLORESSA
WON 6-4 FAKIR D’OUDAIRIES
WON 2-1 DEFI DU SEUIL
TODAY: Top-class racing again today with the John Durkan Memorial (Punchestown), the Hilly Way Chase (Cork), the Scottish Borders National (Kelso) and the Peterborough Chase (Huntingdon).
12.0 BETDAQ VALUE BY A STREET
1.15 Kelso (Scottish Borders National) Sandy Thomson goes for a five-timer in the race, saddling recent novice-chase winner on the track, Caventara, whose dam also won this National in 2009.
He’s at the right end of the handicap: three of the four strikes for the Berwick yard came within the weights parameter 9st 13lb to 10st 4lb, all claimed off.
It’s a worry here that today’s jockey, Ryan Mania, who won the Aintree Grand National in 2013, is so badly out of form.
On the plus side, he’s the only rider to have won a chase on Caventara but his last 12 mounts have been beaten a total of 361 lengths for an average of 30-lengths defeat.
Another negative, which also applies to No Hassle Hoff and Terry The Fish, is that only one seven-year-old has scored: the race usually goes to the older sloggers
Big River is the course specialist. Fifth in the Scottish Grand National in April, his Kelso record is 112111, hurdles and fences, but he has a monster burden today in the conditions.
The 12.0 BETDAQ offer Weststreet won two marathons in the Spring, including the Highlands National.
A long way behind Bafana Blue when needing his reappearance run but now a stone better off, and that’s without his rider’s 5lb allowance.
STEEL YOURSELF TO TACKLE MIN
1.50 Punchestown (John Durkan Memorial Chase) Winners of this make up the cosmos of steeplechasing, including Cheltenham Gold Cup stars Don Cossack and Sizing John.
Willie Mullins, who has won four of the last six, saddles last year’s hero, Min, weighted to confirm that day’s superiority over Shattered Love, and attempting to follow Djakadam’s back-to-back successes (2015-16).
Presenting Percy, within 2lb of Min in the ratings, goes well fresh on his redemption mission, and Anibale Fly would have a big chance – just 2lb further behind – if reproducing his Cheltenham Gold Cup second.
But all of these, plus Snow Falcon, are eight or nine years old, and the race stats demand we call in a new boy on the block, something aged six or seven (altogether 8-10).
Willie Mullins knows the score, too, and he supplies three youngsters, with Real Steel having a stone in hand of Hardline on their Punchestown Festival one-two. I fancied him win and place at 8.4 this morning.
Real Steel steps up into the big league but won impressively on his return, whereas Arkle winner, Duc Des Genievres, jumped indifferently at Navan.
The hidden horse is Voix Du Reve. Unluckily unseated behind Defi Du Seuil in the JLT, then beat Real Steel in the Fairyhouse Ryanair before running a stinker here at Punchestown.
ASO! RAIN MAKES THIS TRICKY
2.00 Huntingdon (Peterborough Chase) Aso, the Cheltenham Ryanair runner-up to Frodon, is 7lb clear in the ratings and conditions are right, if the showers are not too heavy. Narrowly preferred at 3.5.
La Bague Au Roi really needs the showers to stay away, and this exciting chaser in the Spring looked in need of another run before Kempton at Christmas, after pulling up, jumping badly, on her reappearance.
Top Notch won this when it was run at Taunton in 2017 and took another Grade 2 at Sandown in 2018. Out of his depth at the highest level at the Cheltenham and Aintree festivals but nicely primed for today over hurdles a month back.
SINORIA RATES THE SUPERNAP
2.35 Cork (Hilly Way Chase) Douvan (2016) and Un de Sceaux (2017) are on the roll of honour, among five in a row for Willie Mullins until Great Field fell when odds on a year ago.
He’s fallen again since and rising-star stablemate Cilaos Emery has to be preferred if 10-time winner Ballyoisin is to be beaten.
Although a CD winner at Cork, Ballyoisin is unlikely to get a test of stamina in this small field, though the pace of the race could change if Great Field suddenly gets his enthusiasm back.
3.05 Cork A tough introduction over fences for Elimay and I was struck by Sinoria’s Thurles debut.
She ran away from Good Thyne Tara, who beat Elimay over hurdles last Christmas. At 1.91 on BETDAQ this morning, Sinoria can keep the supernap sequence going.
DAQMAN’S BETS
1.15 Kelso (win 20, win 10 a place)
BET 1.75pts win and 3pts place WESTSTREET
1.50 Punchestown (win 20, plus place stakes saver)
BET 2.75pts win and place REAL STEEL
2.00 Huntingdon (win 10)
BET 4pts win ASO
2.35 Cork (win 10)
BET 7.5pts win CILAOS EMERY
3.05 Cork (supernap)
BET 20pts win SINORIA
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