WOT A LOT HE GOT! DAQMAN HITS 100 POINTS PROFIT Three winners in a row yesterday. A fourth nap in a row. And four supernaps in a row since Christmas. It’s just row upon row of Daqman winners, and he’s landed a profit of 100 points (and four pence!) in the last four days.
Yesterday (3 out of 4)
WON 7-2 WOT A SHOT
WON 1-1 GIVEN CHOICE
WON 10-11 CLOUDY GLEN
The last four naps
WON 10-11 REETH
WON 4-1 TEDHAM
WON 11-8 THE TWO AMIGOS
WON 1-1 GIVEN CHOICE
The last four supernaps
WON 5-4 LET RIP
WON 8-13 APPLE’S JADE
WON 10-11 REETH
WON 1-1 GIVEN CHOICE
WATCH THE BIRDIE: 22.0 ON BETDAQ
Hard lines! That’s what you may be left with if you don’t get in on the super-value BETDAQ Arkle market before the weekend.
The Dan Moore Memorial at Fairyhouse on Saturday could be informative about Gordon Elliott’s Hardline and so, collaterally, about Willie Mullins’ Getabird.
They were separated by only half a length – 21 lengths back to the rest – when they were one-two in a novice chase at Limerick on Boxing Day.
Getabird is 22.0 in the BETDAQ ante-post orange for Cheltenham but Sky is so low at 10-1 and bookies get the bird generally at only 12-1.
Hardline, generally 16-1 with fixed-odds layers in the same lists, was 28.0 on BETDAQ at the time of writing.
The form book says of Hardline that “it’s hard to know how good he is, as he probably just about does enough most of the time; jumps well and travels well.”
Getabird was still a bit keen at Limerick. ‘Jumped every fence bar the last which might well have cost him victory.’ He is the Arkle-market front-runner of the Willie Mullins’ squad for the race.
As well as Hardline, Gordon Elliott could run Mengli Khan but that one has to re-establish himself after a poor run, also on Boxing Day, behind Le Richebourg, one of the Arkle favourites now.
If Elliott wins the Dan Moore with Hardline, it will be a hat-trick in the race for his Co Meath stable.
GARDINERS HILL CLIMB GOES ON
2.50 Bangor Follow them when they win and follow them when they lose. How come? Well, this race is a case in point.
Gardiners Hill won two chases out of three and, despite reverting to hurdles with an easy success at Hereford six days ago, can race here 4lb below his chase mark in a similar hurdle but with Lorcan Williams claiming 5lb.
He won back to back in November with a 7lb rise after only a six-day break so clearly recovers quickly enough to take the handicapper’s punishment in his stride.
And the loser in our sights? Well, that’s Viserion who was in the grip of the handicapper all last year but has now crashed a stone and more since he was hiked for his last success, which was his third hurdles win out of seven, still standing.
The most likely winner is Gardiner’s Hill, (4.2 BETDAQ this morning); the most likely outsider is Viserion (BETDAQ offers of 21.0)
FOOLAAD HAS A TOUCH OF CLASS
5.15 Newcastle A rare weekday Class 3 on the AW. A sprint. I shall try to hunt down a couple of decent prices. In ABC order, I give you:
Atletico, 12 defeats since winning here nearly 14 months back; Boom The Groom, losing run of 25 but good effort, narrowly beaten at Epsom in the summer, and this is first run after a wind op. The plunge horse with some bookies.
Bengali Boy’s hasn’t won on AW, but he’s down 20lb since he took the Newbury Super Sprint in the days when Brexit was the first-class departure lounge at a BR station. Is he back on track?
Dynamo Walt doesn’t win after a break; Equitation won as a two-year-old but races awkwardly now; El Hombre was beaten only half a length here in a big field before scoring at Wolverhampton in December.
Foolaad won eight out of 10 in his salad days and came back to form at the end of the 2018 Flat season, winning the Catterick Dash, a class higher than today.
Outrage, slowly away when behind Primo’s Comet at Wolverhampton in November, but a winner here at Newcastle since, beating Watchable and El Hombre.
On the form of those two races, Primo’s Comet comes out in front of Watchable, Outrage and El Hombre but is only a class-4 animal, which seems to peg them all down in quality.
Tony Carroll (3), Keith Dalgleish (2), David O’Meara (1), Stuart Williams (1) and David Evans (1) have all had winners this year and Richard Fahey had two at the end of December.
The CD winners here all scored here at Newcastle from high numbers, 10, 11, 13 and 14, and Bengali Boys in 10 of 10 is now a stone lower than in the summer, and 19.0 BETDAQ offers are too big, if he can bounce back for a top yard here.
Foolaad in 9 has a touch of class, and has won his last six AW starts. Offers of 8.0 on BETDAQ early mouse.
VALLEY CAN GET BACK ON TRACK
THE NAP: Ribble Valley (3.55 Ayr) romped home in his Ayr opening bumper on a course where his in-form Nicky Richards yard has a near-50% strike rate.
The newcomer Gracemeadow, for John McConnell, a neighbour of Gordon Elliott’s, makes this interesting with the handler 3-5 in UK bumpers.
But Ribble Valley is capable of making all the running here. Regarded highly enough to contest a Cheltenham bumper but clipped heels and returned with cuts.
DAQMAN’S BETS
2.50 Bangor (win 20)
BET 6.25pts win GARDINERS HILL
BET 1pt win and place VISERION
3.45 Ayr (supernap)
BET 20pts win RIBBLE VALLEY
5.15 Newcastle (win 30)
BET 4.25pts win FOOLAAD
BET 1.6pts win and place BENGALI BOYS
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