FOUR LAYS UP IN A ROW: Daqman made it four winning lays in succession when he opposed a Tony McCoy odds-on shot yesterday, Relic Rock (3rd 10-11), but he’s still searching for a winning nap this year after four seconds and a third from six bets.
TOP RIDERS’ BANKER DOUBLE: Daqman’s bankers are currently 1112120 and he’s hungry for a maximum-stakes double across the cards at Ludlow and Taunton today, one for Tony McCoy one for Richard Johnson, with the nap at the Somerset track.
SWIVEL SHOULD TURN CHAMPION’S LUCK
LUDLOW: Jonjo O’Neill’s seven-week run without a winner continued yesterday with losers priced 50-1, 20-1 and 12-1 as layers on the rails became brave as birds on electric wire as they even got stuck into his McCoy mounts.
There might be a trade situation copncerning Rose Revived (4.00), whose price could fluctuate, with layers keen to ‘get’ the O’Neill and McCoy combo.
That race is a bumper and I’ve always avoided them. I’m more interested in McCoy’s first ride of the afternoon, Swivel (1.30), from the John Ferguson stable which has figures of 1101212224 in seven days’ racing.
Swivel, class 2 and rated 97 on the Flat (prolific winner on AW) ,wasn’t given a hard time on his hurdling debut at Kempton over Christmas when facing a Nicky Henderson Triumph Hurdle candidate. He should change the champion jockey’s luck this week.
Another McCoy mount, Father Edward (3.00), didn’t find much off the bit at Doncaster and will appreciate the step up in trip today, though Horsehill’s promising first effort over the sticks suggests that he’s going to win a race soon.
Middleham trainer Micky Hammond, who landed a Sedgefield double yesterday, has had no joy from seven starts in the North with Irish points winner Auldthunder, but is prepared to go the extra mile to Ludlow after the unexposed eight-year-old’s unlucky run on the last day.
Auldthunder (3.30) was travelling strongly in the lead at Catterick when he came down at the last. Of his market rivals here, Kings Apollo has been beaten four times since October, three of them when 3-1 or shorter.
Bally Sands is another who prefers to lose, with form figures, still standing, of 322433 in the last year or so. Likewise Always Bold (243224 in just short of 15 months). Petit Ecuyer, second in the Lincolnshire National, is likely to try to make all but needs a bog to blunt the speed of everything around him, such ‘speed’ as there is here.
In fact, all the form of Auldthunder’s rivals screams ‘one paced’ and an early position on the bottomweight seems sure to set you up for a trade. Tuskar Rock won at Chepstow in October, but that seems like a flash in the pan, with defeat either side of it, still standing, by a total of 110 lengths.
KASBAH IS GOING TO BE ‘VERY SPECIAL’
TAUNTON: Philip Hobbs and Richard Johnson went all the way to Musselburgh for a winner with one horse, Royal Player, on Monday.
Today is a bit closer to home – less than 50 miles in fact – for a Hobbs treble-bid on one of his local Somerset tracks, with Georgie Lad, Rock The Kasbah and Pull The Chord.
In Georgie Lad’s race (1.40), Castle Cheetah is expected to take them along, and could be the one on which to take an early position and trade at shorter.
Irish Points winners Rathlin Rose (needs a galloping track) and The Chuckmeister (bags of stamina in the family) have both shown preferences for drier ground.
Rock The Kasbah (2.10), by the same sire as Annie Power and Brown Panther, looks really solid, with the stable reckoning ‘he’s going to be very special one day’.
Only Paul Nicholls’ Vago Collonges seems to stand any chance against him. He was carrying plenty of condition when runner-up at Exeter but was disappointing as beaten odds-on favourite at Haydock.
The easier track and first-time hood will help today but Rock The Kasbah has a notional stone in hand on lines to collateral form, and must be a banker.
Another Nicholls runner, Rothman (3.10), in Pull The Chord’s race, has already been tried in a hood, and it didn’t help the odds-on Newton Abbot loser redeem himself on the last day, easy to back at 10-1 at Sandown and a faller at the first.
We are back to the speculation over Jonjo O’Neill’s form, which he has shrugged off as one of those things. His runner here, Kelvingrove, needs a better surface, and has plenty of weight.
Bladoun had to be dropped to class 5 to get off the mark at Leicester, with tongue-tie and cheekpieces shoring him up, and is 13lb higher now.
Mr Fitzroy was getting weight all round when he won at Lingfield in heavy going, and may have been lucky with conditions of race and ground again.
DAQMAN’S BETS (Strength 1 to 9; banker 10)
BANKER: BET 10pts win SWIVEL (1.30 Ludlow)
BANKER: BET 10pts win (nap) ROCK THE KASBAH (2.10 Taunton)
BET 5pts win on each FATHER EDWARD and HORSEHILL (3.00 Ludlow)
BET 4pts win PULL THE CHORD and 3pts win MR FITZROY (3.10 Taunton)
BET 6pts win AULDTHUNDER (3.30 Ludlow)
DAQ MULTIPLES: 3pts win double SWIVEL (1.30 Ludlow) and ROCK THE KASBAH (2.10 Taunton), and 2 x 1pt win trebles the same two with FATHER EDWARD and HORSEHILL (3.00 Ludlow)
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