NAVAN HAS RACE OF REAL FUTURE CHAMPIONS: After checking out eight Friday-Saturday races at Cheltenham, here’s Daqman’s final preview for the weekend, perhaps the best race of them all for throwing up champions. Certainly Gordon Elliott would agree. It’s at Navan on Sunday.
THAT’S THE WAY! DAQMAN PLAN SCORES AGAIN: Thanks to the Daqman staking plan at BETDAQ offers, Cotswold Way (WON evens) put him in profit on the day yesterday. Gordon Elliott is also featured in his BETDAQ bets for today.
ABRACADABRAS: GORDON’S MAGIC
3.10 Navan (Sunday) Don’t miss the most amazing bumper around. At least, it is for Gordon Elliott, and his followers should benefit way into the future.
Elliott has just landed a hat-trick in what is appropriately described as the ‘Future Champions’ Flat Race, where many heats bear that description but don’t come up with the goods.
Two of Gordon’s hat-trick, Death Duty and Samcro, have won four out of five and five out of five, respectively, immediately after winning this race.
Four years earlier, he took it with Don Cossack, who landed 14 more races including the Cheltenham Gold Cup.
So I think we can safely say that Gordon attacks the race with something fairly decent!
Samcro could still go either way: the Arkle or the Champion Hurdle. Much depends on his performance in the Leopardstown Ryanair Hurdle (December 29).
Back to that bumper, for which Gordon chooses from three which are all unbeaten in bumpers: Abracadabras, Envoi Allen and The Very Man. He’s the very man for this, all right!
MRS LOVETT TO FOIL THE FAVOURITE
1.25 Warwick Despite five runners at Tramore today, Gordon Elliott spares the fare for a solo raid on Warwick for this Listed-level mares’ race, looking for black type for Mrs Lovett.
The race’s last winning stable, Henry Daly’s in 2016, is back with Atlanta Blaze in a heat named the Lady Godiva Mares Novices’ Chase. So can either of them win it on the bare form?
Their mark is morning odds-on favourite Jester Jet, whose 222 form figures suggest that she just might be beatable!
She has to run in this type of event because she’s been given a high rating for handicaps (142), largely because she ran up to hat-trick scorer Bags Groove in the autumn.
His burgeoning form has carried Jester Jet along for the ride. But it’s not what beats you, it’s what you beat!
Immediately behind Jester Jet at ffos Las, Tommy Rapper has been beaten 28 lengths at Bangor since. That Jester Jet had Miss Night Owl 33-lengths third when she was second to Bangor becomes less significant when you count up the 68 lengths that Night Owl’s wings had been clipped in her two previous novice chases.
Mrs Lovett has more chasing experience, turning over an experienced jumper on the last day, and is ‘big’ at 5.5 in the BETDAQ orange as I write.
She’s never been out of the first four in 12 starts and, though her recent form in Ireland has been on a sound surface, scored on very soft ground when trained in France.
VOCALIST CAN START ON A HIGH NOTE
1.45 Newcastle Team Skelton – trainer Dan and jockey Harry – have scored 5-7 in the last couple of days but their Stowaway Magic looks like another novice-chase favourite to take on.
‘Prone to niggly problems’, according to her previous trainer, and a better animal on a sound surface, as his modest victory (over two others) at Stratford suggests.
It was a case of pulling out all the stops (tongue-tie, cheekpieces, take him to the front and don’t let him stop).
So far, this race has been kept up’North with young horses of potential aged five and six winning every time.
Keith Dalglish has won this race before and, as a steeplechase debutant, The Vocalist, gets in with a light weight, receiving 12lb from Stowaway Magic. I took 5.9 on BETDAQ.
I SAY, BIG BETDAQ VALUE FOR ASYLO
2.45 Taunton Here’s Herbie is a standing dish at Taunton with form figures going back three years of 02114320, still standing and might be worth a pound in what punters believe is an open race.
I disagree, and think that Asylo – an amazing 6.0 in the BETDAQ orange – is a standout, and is on his way to better things.
Asylo was bogged down in the mud of Sandown in October, first time back, or might have been coming to this with a hat-trick in the bag, as a winner in the Spring who scored on the last day, despite being hampered and losing a shoe.
Gets the good ground he needs, and Sam Twiston-Davies keeps the winning ride.
DAQMAN’S BETS
1.25 Warwick (win 30)
BET 6.5pts win MRS LOVETT
1.45 Newcastle (win 30)
BET 6pts win THE VOCALIST
2.45 Taunton (win 30)
BET 6pts win (nap) ASYLO
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