DAQMAN FAVOURITE BRIAN THE SNAIL ADDS 3-1 TO 14-1 STRIKE: The Angel and the Snail went fast and furious – as forecast by Daqman – in successive handicap sprints at Southwell yesterday. Another Angel (3rd 14-1) faded final furlong after trying to make all on the rail from the one draw, but paid out place money on BETDAQ, while Brian The Snail (WON 3-1) managed to hang on and beat the favourite a short head. Brian had landed a 14-1 strike for Daqman in December.
TODAY: BULL’S-EYE BET AT 19.0 AND FORTUNE COOKIE IS NAPPED: Daqman looks forward today and tomorrow to the weekend’s Dublin Festival. The nap is a Fortune Cookie at Warwick, where he finds another bull’s-eye bet of an outsider at 19.0.
LADBROKES HURDLE PUNTING TREAT
🇮🇪 SATURDAY SPECIAL It’s serious stuff at the weekend, with the two-day Dublin Festival at Leopardstown providing another chance for a Daqman 25-1 winner, as did The Cob on yet another BETDAQ Super Saturday last week.
⭕ 1.35 Leopardstown, Saturday (Ladbrokes Dublin Chase) The last two winners of this, Chacun Pour Soi and Min, meet again in this 2m-plus spectacular.,
Last year, Chacun Pour Soi stopped a hat-trick in the race by Min, after both were less than fluent at the final fence.
The pair are trained Willie Mullins, who has sent them on different winning routes to today’s clash.
Chacun Pour Soi won the Hilly Way, then easily beat Notebook here at Leopardstown over half a furlong shorter and on yielding ground at Christmas.
Min won the Ryanair at Cheltenham (soft) and then the Punchestown Gold Cup (heavy).
⭕ 3.50 Leopardstown, Saturday (Ladbrokes Hurdle) Apart from the Irish Arkle (2.10) and the Irish Champion Hurdle (3.15), there’s this punters’ dream of a handicap, won in the decade by SPs of 6-1 (twice), 7-1, 8-1, 10-1 (twice), 12-1, 16-1 (twice) and 20-1.
Last year’s favourite, Buildmeupbuttercup, is looking for retribution, after defeat by only three lengths, despite a mistake when taking the lead before the last, only for the mare to find herself short of room on the run-in.
The secret of your search through the form is to find a young horse between 10st 3lb and 10st 10lb, or even out of the handicap, as happened with two of the last three winners.
MUSTARD FORM MAKES ANNIE SO HOT
⭕ 3.05 Warwick Jonjo O’Neill has caught me by surprise, running FORTUNE COOKIE early-bird Annie Mc in this 2m 4f mares’ Listed chase.
Happy Diva won it two years ago (run at Huntingdon) from the Grand National runner-up Magic Of Light.
Diva has needed a break after an odds-on defeat followed an uncharacteristic fall in November at Cheltenham, where she’s won and has also been placed at the festival.
Zambella and Momella are both going for hat-tricks but Zambella is two years younger and a course-and-distance winner, while Momella has to step up out of novice chases.
Zambella has already done so, completing a hat-trick when landing a mares chase at Leicester three weeks back.
When Annie Mc truck form last season, she did the hat-trick, too, and when she returned to the winner’s enclosure in December, it came after she handed out a 16-lengths trouncing to Cut The Mustard in a Doncaster Listed.
Cut The Mustard was runner-up, only a couple of lengths or so down, when Zambella landed her hat-trick race at Leicester. It’s gotta be Annie Mc, then, hasn’t it!
19.0 BOYHOOD DOWN TO A LOW MARK
⭕ 3.40 Warwick Jonjo O’Neill has another decent chance here with Morning Spirit but his success at Ascot in December (Huntsmans Jog fourth) came by default when he was left clear at the last.
Rock On Fruity and Boyhood share top weight but under different circumstances. Boyhood is claimed off and 22lb lower today than two years ago. Fruity is 12 now but up 7lb for scoring at Kelso.
Mr Clarkson and Supremely Lucky have returned to hurdling after failing to land a pot over fences. Undersupervision is hard to assess: if his opening mark is accurate, it doesn’t leave much room.
Shah An Shan returned to form here at Warwick on the last day of the old year in first-time cheekpieces; you have to bet they will have a similar effect or better, with a tongue-tie added. The same applies to the Hereford novice winner Spirit Of Waterloo.
I’ll make Boyhood my outsider of the day at 19.0 in the Sportsbook on the BETDAQ BETTING EXCHANGE He’s dropped below class 2 for only the second time since November 2017.
He won that day at Lingfield and has since scored at Newton Abbot – both in class 3 – and in between won a class 2 at Cheltenham. Cheekpieces first time might reawaken him.
ALL ABOARD THE STARSHIP
⭕ 5.25 Kempton Starshiba looks the answer to the best race on Kempton’s card this evening – a class 2 handicap over a mile.
Trainer by David Elsworth who has had 2 winners from his last two runners and one of those was Starshiba!
It’s no surprise to see the wily trainer get the four-year-old out again quickly after his success over seven furlongs last week.
He was staying on to great effect in the closing stages and the step-up to a mile looks ideal.
He may be even better over this trip and still seems to be on the upgrade so those are mitigating factors against the 5lb penalty.
At a bigger price, the danger could come from Mission Boy who had good form in Italy and made a perfectly satisfactory UK debut for Marco Botti when second in a Lingfield handicap last month – also at class 2 level.
DAQMAN’S BETS
3.05 Warwick (nap)
FORTUNE COOKIE
BET 10pts win ANNIE Mc
3.40 Warwick (win 50, win 10 place)
BULL’S-EYE BET 2.75pts win, 2pts place BOYHOOD
5.25 Kempton (win 10)
BET 5.3pts win STARSHIBA
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