WELL! WINNING BANKER MAKES IT BACK-TO-BACK NAPS: After his Tuesday nap, Elusive Hawk (WON 5-4 from 3.3 on BETDAQ), Daqman made it back-to-back best bets with banker stakes on Holywell (WON 10-11) yesterday.
PLACE LAY UP IN VETERANS’ RACE: Daqman also laid Aachen (unplaced 4-1) for a place in the Veteran’s Chase. Both races were on the BETDAQ-sponsored jumps card on Town Moor at Doncaster.
33.0 BETDAQ BET FOR CHELTENHAM: Daqman completes his current list of ante-post bets with a top-of-the-ground horse for Cheltenham in the Albert Bartlett, at 16-1 with the bookies, 33.0 on BETDAQ. That closes his portfolio until the Cheltenham handicaps are known.
CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL: DOUBLE-YOUR-MONEY ‘MOUNT’ AT 33.0 ON BETDAQ
He’s the find of the season for us. That’s the proud epithet for a Cheltenham hope of those dedicated Yorkshire horsemen, Sue and Harvey Smith.
He’s got to go to Cheltenham. He has a fine way about him. Jumps impeccably. A very useful chaser in the making for next season. His attitude under pressure cannot be questioned. He’ll be even better on a sound surface.
Never out of the frame under the stable’s Grand National winning rider, Ryan Mania, the horse with the big future – subject of all those quotes from the stable and in the form book – is a Presenting (out of a Supreme Leader mare) called Blakemount.
Blakemount, who ran a close second in the Albert Bartlett trial at Doncaster in January, goes for that hurdle at Cheltenham as a 20-1 shot at most, 16-1 with half a dozen bookmakers quoted in the Oddschecker list.
But you could get a bonanza 33.0 on BETDAQ, a double-your-money giveaway price, and he’s my promised top-of-the-ground punt for the festival.
CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL: MULLINS’ ‘POWER’ POINTER TO MARES HURDLE
Quevega has had a couple of quiet days. Trainer Willie Mullins today confirms in the Racing Post that all has not been straightforward, getting her back for a sixth Mares’ Hurdle title.
Giving a strong indication that Annie Power was waiting in the wings he said Annie Power would have ‘four or five’ horses to beat in the Champion Hurdle, ‘one or two’ in the World Hurdle, but only one in the Mares Hurdle, and it will be a ‘last-minute thing’ where she runs. Like Un De Sceaux, she was a horse for the future.
Annie Power is now as short as 7-2 behind Quevega for the Mares Hurdle, which compares nicely with the 9.8 obtained for this column on BETDAQ.
Ladbrokes have Vautour their 5-2 favourite for the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle after a strong Mullins vote of confidence in the interview: ‘He is a lot better than two of our previous winners.’
TODAY’S RACING: VODKA LOOKS A SHOT IN THE ARM AT HUNTINGDON
It’s another McCoy short shot. But there are several good reasons to invest maximum stakes on Shotavodka (3.10) at Huntingdon today and he must be another A P banker.
David Pipe had a blanket 12 entries spread across Ayr, Sedgefield and Huntingdon but has chosen to run only Vieux Lion Rouge (2.30) at Sedgefield and Shotavodka at Huntingdon.
Tony McCoy had two bookings, one at Ayr and one at Huntingdon. Both are running but he deserts Romantic Fashion (2.50 Ayr) for Shotavodka.
The A P banker yesterday, Holywell, is reckoned Cheltenham Festival chase material, with a choice of the RSA or the NH Chase. In his Catterick success which set him up for yesterday, he beat none other than Shotavodka into second.
Holywell, winner of the Pertemps Final at last year’s festival and second to Solwhit in the Liverpool Hurdle, is rated 157 over hurdles to Shotavodka’s 144 but the Pipe horse made a race of it over fences at Catterick, getting within four and a half lengths of the winner.
Keeping the price up for us today is Bellenos, who would have been hot favourite here had he been running after the rave reviews for his Ascot success in December.
But the race fell apart. Bellenos went to Doncaster and was beaten 44 lengths and his runner-up at Ascot, Rio De Sivola, ran a 15-lengths-plus last of three finishers at Ludlow.
Though official ratings have yet to catch up on all this, the Racing Post has Shotavodka on their figure of 151 with Bellenos conceding 7lb but lagging behind off their 143.
And maybe Bellenos’ demise at Doncaster has something to with trainer Dan Skelton’s current strike rate. There is no strike. He’s gone 55 days without a winner.
DAQMAN’S BETS
BET 7.5pts win CHOISAN (2.00 Sedgefield)
BANKER: BET 20pts win SHOTAVODKA (3.10 Huntingdon)
BET 2.6pts win APPYJACK (6.00 Wolverhampton)
BET 1.6pts win and place (Outsider Of The Day) ODYSSEE (7.30 Wolverhampton)
ANTE-POST: BET 1pt win BLAKEMOUNT (33.0, Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle, Cheltenham)
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