DAQMAN’S GRAND NATIONAL DOUBLE: Daqman’s colours were flying in a Grand National yesterday for the second time this April, when his three included the Fairyhouse National winner, Haiti Couleurs (13-2), after his 1-2-3 at Aintree with Nick Rockett named first at 33-1.
☀️ BANK HOLIDAY big-race winners: Profit on the day 57.45
WON 13-2 HAITI COULEURS (Irish Grand National 1-2-3)
WON 8-1 SANS BRUIT (Sussex Champion Chase)
WON 14-1 MOSTLY SUNNY (BETDAQ 17.0 taken)
WON 13-8 SKY SAFARI (CSF Top Of the Class 2nd 5-2)
TODAY: four races at Epsom and the Ladies National at Fairyhouse.
SKELTON £50k CLEAR OF MULLINS: An across-the-cards four timer yesterday for Dan Skelton (total now £3,285,029) put him more than £50k up on Willie Mullins (£3,232,252) for the trainers’ title. They share a total of 71 runners for the Sandown Finale on Friday and Saturday.
TARGET THAT SUITS ARROW
⭕ 1.35 Epsom (5f) A sprint favourite at Epsom at this time of year is a likely lay (favourites 1-10 in this) but won’t be much shorter than 4-1, so hardly warrants my ‘Logic’ label.
If you’re looking for the winner, you need something that’s already been a runner in April (seven winners in a row have this hot stat).
Almaty Star ( Betdaq Betting Exchange 5.9) and Spartan Arrow (7.2 offers) fit the bill. They were one-two at Wolverhampton with just a neck between them.
Spartan Arrow has won at Goodwood and Brighton, which confirms his love for the very fast but hilly tracks. Hollie Doyle loves them, too.
GOSDEN THE TRIAL ADVOCATE
⭕ 2.10 Epsom (Blue Riband Trial) Even in small fields the low draw has a big advantage: eight of the last nine winners came out of stalls 1, 2, 3, 4.
Team Gosden has won five of the last nine and Devil’s Advocate (drawn 3 today) scored at today’s 1m 2f as a two-year-old, clearly destined for a greater test of stamina.
Though a half-brother to a 7f winner, Trinity College (stall 4) is out of a 1,000 Guineas winner related to a fillies-and-mares’ 1m 4f champion.
A NEVER-ENDING DELIGHT..
⭕ 2.45 Epsom (City and Suburban) Andrew Balding, who has already trained 44 winners this year – 10 on turf – has a consistent sort in the filly Warda Jamila, but she’s bred as if she will come into her own over a trip.
Today’s field – every one of them – has the edge on fitness, having raced in the last month. In fact, this is a rerun of a similar race at the start of the new turf season.
City Of Delight (first), Magico (second), Stressfree (fourth, short of room), Rathgar (fifth) and King’s Code (eighth) were separated by less than five lengths at Doncaster.
City Of Delight put four wins together last summer and, after that fifth 10-furlong strike, is now 24lb higher than when the sequence started, with Magico better off at the weights.
Stressfree has a bigger pull on City Of Delight but his best form has all been on easy ground, and you need to check out times of earlier races to see how much watering was done last night.
HUGHIE IN DASHING FORM
⭕ 3.20 Epsom (Great Metropolitan) A famous punter’s double lost in turf history, the City and Sub and the Great Met, is attempted by David Menuisier, who won a decent handicap at Kempton yesterday with Metaverse.
The Frenchman, who now trains at Pulborough where Guy Harwood sent out Dancing Brave to win an Arc, follows City Of Delight in the first of these big handicaps with Master Builder in this second leg.
Andrew Balding also has a runner in each but Sugar Road is a maiden and will probably remain so after this.
Stepped up in trip here, Dashinwhitesargent is an Epsom winner, gelded in the close season and on a handy mark for Hughie Morrison, whose horses are running at 70%, according to the Racing Post RTF service. A bit each way at BETDAQ 8.1.
ANOTHER NATIONAL PARTY?
⭕ 3.25 Fairyhouse (Ladies National) I’m seeing a National double again today but does it feature yesterday’s Irish National winner, Rebecca Curtis for Wales, or last year’s star of this ladies’ race, So Des Flos?
So Des Flos is a dual Fairyhouse CD winner for Charlotte Butler and trainer Gordon Elliott, who was in fairytale form yesterday with a Grade-2 double at the festival.
Rebecca Curtis is looking for a hat-trick from The Boola Boss, to be ridden by the 2022 winner of this race, Jody Townend, Paul’s younger sister.
But Boola has only ever won on a sound surface, so I’m bringing Potters Party forward in my 1-2-3, as a course winner here on heavy, ridden today by another winning Ladies National rider, Niall Madden’s wife, Aine O’Connor.
DAQMAN 1-2-3 value on BETDAQ: 15 So Des Flos, 13.5 Potters Party, 5.8 The Boola Boss
DAQMAN’S BETS on Betdaq Betting Exchange
1.35 Epsom (win 30)
BET 6pts win ALMATY STAR
BET 5pts win SPARTAN ARROW
★ 2.10 Epsom (win 12 nap)
BET 10pts win DEVIL’S ADVOCATE
2.45 Epsom (win 12)
BET 6pts win CITY OF DELIGHT
3.20 Epsom (win 12)
BET 1pt win and place DASHINWHITESARGENT
3.25 Fairyhouse (win-50 bull’s-eye bets)
BET 4pts win POTTERS PARTY
BET 3.5pts win SO DES FLOS
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