SEVEN WINNING NAPS OUT OF NINE: Daqman made it seven winning naps out of nine yesterday, six of them odds against, and he goes for a hat-trick on the BETDAQ card at Punchestown today after success on Monday and Tuesday.
WON 11-8 WILLIAM H BONNEY (Monday)
WON 11-10 SUPREMELY LUCKY (Tuesday)
WON 5-2 IRISH LASS (Thursday)
WON 5-2 PENN LANE (Friday)
WON 5-4 POLITOLOGUE, supernap (Saturday)
WON 4-6 MIA’S STORM, supernap (Monday)
WON 5-4 PRINCESS HARLEY, nap (Tuesday)
BETDAQ CARD PUNCHES ITS WEIGHT: 95 RUNNERS There’s a near ton-up list of runners for BETDAQ day at Punchestown, with 95 declared for seven races this afternoon, six of them in BETDAQ sponsorship. Headlines:
GOOD CALL! FIRST BETDAQ WINNER
NOT WHISKEY BUT SLOEGIN FOR ME
HE KHAN JUMP INTO ARKLE PICTURE
THIS COULD BE A CLASS OPERATOR
BIG-ODDS DESTROYERS ON THE AW
GOOD CALL! FIRST BETDAQ WINNER
12.25 Punchestown (BETDAQ Trading Tools Maiden Hurdle) There are so many unpronounceable names these days; Saturday had ITV Racing in debate about whether it’s, phonetically, Bristol De My or Bristol de May?
So I welcome Joseph O’Brien’s Whatchamacallit, second at Fairyhouse in the Spring to stablemate Uisce Beatha, a tongue-twister to some.
That translates as ‘water of life’ in the Gaelic but the short form – though mine’s a double! – is ‘whiskey’, making sure you denote the Irish with the correct spelling.
Whatchmacallit (7.8 taken) could be in another Joseph O’Brien one-two with Alighted today, though that one’s bumper form is a bit iffy and, on breeding, needs another half-mile or more.
Acronym’s winning bumper was more recent but even less enhancing, while Batcio is looking exposed already.
Noel Meade is in good form and, if I’m taking the ‘Uisce’ strength for this one, I have to consider Daly Tiger, since he gave 5lb and a four-lengths beating to Uisce Beatha in a bumper, though his hurdles second afterwards hasn’t amounted to much.
NOT WHISKEY BUT SLOEGIN FOR ME
1.25 Punchestown (BETDAQ ChangingfortheBettor Mares Handicap Hurdle) That 29lb from top to bottom of the handicap I spoke about earlier in the week is still there after the overnight decs.
After Whatchamacallit, we now have Ahgetawayoutadat, but she’s been beaten 161 lengths in her four completed starts, and she looks much too low down in the handicap. Races like this are usually won by a by a bit of quality at the top.
Carleon Kate, Demi Pile, Isabel’s Gold, Lockeen Girl, Mysloeginand Sunset Sadie have all won at least once in their last four starts.
Mysloegin is dropped in class and has Rachael Blackmore back in the saddle, the pair of them scoring – from past and future winners – at Tramore in the summer. Seems to act on any going. Seemed too big at 21.0 on BETDAQ.
Overnight showers may have turned the ground in favour of Sunset Sadie (6.6), a winner over shorter at Clonmel, and Caerleon Katie, whose sole autumn success came on soft, though I think it was the track – Downpatrick – which she loved most.
On past form, rain is against Demi Pile, twice a good-ground winner at 2m 4f, while Isabel’s Gold and Lockeen Girl were both summer-surface winners at Tramore.
HE KHAN JUMP INTO ARKLE PICTURE
1.55 Punchestown (Download the BETDAQ App Beginners Chase) This threw up a classy animal last year, the very epithet I have used in the past about Mengli Khan, Graded-hurdle winner at Navan and Fairyhouse (the Royal Bond), third in the Supreme Novices at Cheltenham and also in the Punchestown Champion Novice Hurdle, both Grade 1 of course.
He looked a big, strong sort who would jump a fence, and Gordon Elliott has not hesitated to declare the Arkle as the ultimate aim, so starting him off here at 2m.
Call A Cab was third over hurdles at the Punchestown Festival to a Gordon Elliott winner and Connard blundered when having a fair chance in another beginners chase in October which Gordon ran away with, via Blow By Blow.
Forge Meadow won a Grade-2 hurdle and has had a run over fences at Galway, but is making a price for a Mengli Khan punt, in my opinion.
THIS COULD BE A CLASS OPERATOR
2.30 Punchestown (BETDAQ 2% Commission Rated Novice Chase) The West Awake was a disappointment after taking this last year but today’s heat is an all-winners race, so I’m expecting better.
Would you believe that our old friend Uisce Beatha is among them at 17.5, with this race nominated as long ago as when he scored back at Fairyhouse in April.
While he’s been resting, and growing up at home, Judgement Day has been racking up a hat-trick over fences on summer-autumn ground (he also has hurdles form on the soft).
But the form book says he’s one of those early types who get swallowed up when the better-quality animals emerge; he’s beaten nothing well.
Kildorrery failed to follow up after scoring here in October but he was allowed to start 33-1 for that race 11 days ago and rain will have improved his chance of bouncing back.
This is not a confident move for Poli Roi, who won at Fairyhouse a fortnight ago and is a hurdles winner on the soft. He’s festooned with aids, and looks beatable.
Quamino jumped for fun on his chasing debut at Fairyhouse. The sound surface had connections worried but presumably he’s come out of it well enough and winter ground could turn him into a decent animal.
Alletrix – second in a Listed here – was a slick hurdles jumper and her solid pedigree (Flemensfirth out of an Old Vic mare) suggests more to come over fences, and the stable is in form.
Just when you think you’ve done enough, another one leaps at you from the form book. Shady Operator, second here twice over hurdles and who traces back to Grand National winner Corbiere, could be the star on show at this BETDAQ meeting today, as a 4.5 offer.
‘He’s a grand horse,’ quote unquote Barry Geraghty who, surprisingly for a meeting with 95 runners, has just one ride today, The Gunner Murphy (a 10.5 offer in the 12.55).
3.35 Punchestown (BETDAQ 1st Month Commission Back INH Flat race) Another Gordon Elliott (Battleoverdoyen), another Noel Meade (Active Force) but I can get some place insurance to cover a stake on Peres Et Fils, who has been allowed to mature at home since his debut in the Spring. A relative of Kicking King, he was 6.0 on BETDAQ this morning.
BIG-ODDS DESTROYERS ON THE AW
4.30 Wolverhampton The market leaders are suspect here, with Glendevon having won only his maiden, and Graffiti Master having a third launch this year, hard to hold together.
Leaving out his turf attempts, The Throstles is 111 this year, all three on today’s course at Wolverhampton.
Up in class but a three-year-old getting more than a stone from his disappointing contemporaries, and 16.0 BETDAQ offers are too big.
5.15 Newcastle It’s 23 races, going back to May 2016, since Destroyer ran at a lower level than class 4 and he’s been seen in class 2 and 3 five times; won three overall.
It’s hard to spot a Tom Tate plot but this is a genuine horse with not so much a turn of foot but a good gallop, and better surely than class 5 and the 17.0 offers on BETDAQ.
DAQMAN BETS
12.25 Punchestown (win 20)
BET 3pts win and place WHATCHAMACALLIT
BET 2.5pts win (stakes saver) DALY TIGER
12.55 Punchestown (win 10)
BET 1pt win and place THE GUNNER MURPHY
1.25 Punchestown (win 10 and win 20)
BET 1.75pts win SUNSET SADIE
BET 1pt win and place MYSLOEGIN
1.55 Punchestown (supernap)
BET 20pts win MENGLI KHAN
2.30 Punchestown (win 20)
BET 5.75pts win SHADY OPERATOR
BET 1.25pts win and place UISCE BEATHA
3.00 Punchestown (win 20)
BET 1.25pts win and place DUKE CASS
3.35 Punchestown (win 20)
BET 4pts win PERES ET FILS
4.30 Wolverhampton (win 20)
BET 1.3pts win and place THE THROSTLES
5.15 Newcastle (win 20)
BET 1.25pts win and place DESTROYER
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