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 Monday 2 March
COUNTDOWN: As we count the days to Cheltenham, Daqman is counting down to his 200th successful lay. One more yesterday leaves him with only nine to go.
He wants the 200 before the start of the Flat but he wants to retain his 75% strike rate. Watch this space.
Today Daqman names the stable tipped for a double across the cards on AW and backs a horse at Stratford that beat The Package before Saturday’s big gamble.
His nap of the day is in one of the three Betdaq handicaps at Wolverhampton.
Hard ground at Huntingdon yesterday has rerouted two potential winners to Stratford this afternoon.
Risk (3.00) has had just one run over hurdles but a long absence for a Charlie Egerton runner is no worry: you hardly see his horses on a racetrack; they do all their winning at home.
But Risk will have to do something in public soon if he is to repay the 100,000 guineas he cost connections: I’ll give him this one chance, a bit each way at 7.0 on Betdaq this morning.
I thought Restless d’Artaix (3.30), who also sidestepped Huntingdon, would be favourite after The Package did so well in Saturday’s big race.
It was the defeat of The Package by restless Tony McCoy that gave the jockey his 3,000th winner last month.
But I could get 3.3 the Artaix horse on the Daq, and better than 2-1 in what appears to be a two-horse race is good value.
Another who’s been form-boosted is Barry Hills’ Onemix (4.10 Lingfield), runner-up at Kempton to subsequent hat-trick scorer Petrovsky.
I expected odds on, but got 2.31 on Betdaq in the face of sustained support for Boscage, a Godolphin cast-off who has to give Onemix 23lb, with the grey filly’s sex allowance increasing the weight for age.
Barry also has son Michael on a filly at the other meeting: Brer Rabbit (5.50) in the Betdaq Handicap at Wolverhampton.
But she hasn’t been fancied so far, starting 11-1, 14-1 and 16-1 in her last three starts, as she’s been too keen for her own good.
Jul’s Lad and Rockinit also like to force the pace so I can see this going to a hold-up horse, possibly Thewaytosanjose; at least he’s had his head in front twice: on his in-and-out pattern of form, today is ‘in.’
My nap is Jaconet (4.20); Jamie Spencer does well for the Barron stable and I’m giving up on her main opponent, Moon Crystal, who tries sprinting here.
Moon Crystal won over a mile at Kempton when she was allowed to set a modest pace; I can’t see that happening today, remembering the way Jaconet tore up the straight at York last summer and left the placed horses four and seven lengths behind.
Ed Dunlop, trainer of Moon Crystal, has a similar chance with Dubai Storming (5.20), but he’s a keen sort and there’s a good word for Sounds Of Jupiter.
In fact, there’s talk of a Simcock double across the cards to be instigated by Wild Cat Card (3.10 Lingfield). I’ll bet as though he gets one winner for sure.
Those sticking with Brer Rabbit at Wolver could do worse than a coincidence double with Rabbit Fighter (2.40 Lingfield), dropped 10lb. down the handicap. It’s one of those days.
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