9/4 WINNER ENSURES A PROFITABLE DAY After 7/1 and 5/1 winners on Sunday and Monday, DAQMAN again found a good winner with LILLINGTON WON 9/4 yesterday to ensure a profit on his staking plan across his three selections.

SO CLOSE His other two picks both finished second including Finnegan’s Garden at 10/1 (and traded very short in running on BETDAQ). His nap, Brandy Spirit, was beaten a neck at Chelmsford at 9/4. Sadly for DAQMAN the floodlights failed too late on the card!

CAN THE JUMPERS TOP 1,000 POINTS? After 1,151 points profit from the 2018 Flat ‘Fortune Cookies’ (see yesterday), the 2018-19 Jumps list is launched today as Horses To Follow until we can find a final winners squad with which to attack the big festivals in the Spring.


HORSES TO FOLLOW: LUCKY 15

Future cookies. I call them horses to follow at this stage; once proven, they become the Fortune Cookies for the Jumps of 2019, to be published in the new year. Others may be added later.

BLOW BY BLOW Gordon Elliott’s Martin Pipe winner, who hit 152 over hurdles, made all for an easy beginners’ chase start at Galway last month.

CYRNAME Paul Nicholls says he’s a ‘proper horse’ now. Had a run back the other day and, for me, seems on course for his beloved Kempton over Christmas.

ELEGANT ESCAPE Future Stars winner at Sandown on Sunday is as far forward as Native River at this stage, according to trainer Colin Tizzard. Now for the Ladbrokes Trophy (December 9).

ELDORADO ALLEN The dark one at Tizzard’s. Ex-French grey, with bags of stamina in his pedigree. I always prefer Tizzard’s rising stars to his established ones.

FIDUX Alan King wishes he’d entered him for the Greatwood Hurdle, as he’d had success last year with Elgin coming out of the same Ascot handicap Fidux won on November 3.

FRODON My man in the long grass watching the Nicholls’ gallops warned me – and I wrote it up in this column – that Frodon would be ready to win the Old Roan at Aintree at the end of last month. He did, and it was a classy performance.

MT LEINSTER The Mullins family had been keeping the name for a good horse because Mt Leinster overlooks the Closutton yard. Will get a fair trip.

POLITOLOGUE A similar situation as Frodon when this column was advised to stand by Politologue from the Nicholls squad at Aintree in April. Won at 11-1 despite six previous steeplechase successes.

PRESENTING PERCY The RSA winner was back working out on grass for the first time late last week and is on course for the John Durkan at Punchestown (December 9)

ROCK THE KASBAH Philip Hobbs has dropped from an average of 108 winners a year to 63, with ‘some things wrong in the yard,’ so a lot of potential for improvement among the squad. Rock on, the Hobbs renaissance!

SHATTERED LOVE Gordon Elliott says she’s potentially up to Gold Cup standard. The JLT at Cheltenham in March was the mare’s fifth chase win from six starts.

SPIRITOFTHEGAMES Leading trainer Dan Skelton said after his Chepstow success in October: ‘He is very good fresh so i might leave him until the Ladbroke meeting at Newbury. Doesn’t like right-handed tracks.’

THE LAST DAY The Welsh National meeting at Chepstow in the new year is the target for Evan Williams’ smart Oscar gelding. Twice a winner at Chepstow over hurdles.

TIGER ROLL My Grand National winner last year. Thanks again, Gordon Elliott. We will also be on the tiger in the cross-country at the Cheltenham festival; he may just be one who can keep coming back for more.

VINTAGE CLOUDS Fourth in the Welsh National, third in the Scottish version, so Sue Smith has every right to hope for Aintree in April.


ADELAIDE THE NAP

12.45 Bangor Just the six runners go to post for this handicap chase but it looks very competitive.

Preference is for the Olly Murphy trained Just Minded to make a winning return to action. He hasn’t been seen since finishing second at Sedgefield in April when the good ground was probably not ideal and he gets some cut in the ground today.

Jabulani and Coologue both have the benefit of recent runs but the pair seem a long way off their best form at present.

1.30 Exeter Word from my man in the long grass that Tzar De L’elfe is worth looking at here. The stable is in good form and he should find the softer ground much more to his liking after a seasonal reappearance at Plumpton on good to firm.

5.00 Kempton Let’s hope the floodlights are working and the show is kept on the road, unlike at Chelmsford last night. The lights went out mid-race during the third event on the card causing the meeting to be abandoned. The favourite was in trouble at the time and the armchair conspiracists had a field day (surely night, Editor?). The lights did come back on later in the evening after the system was ‘re-booted’. The old go to cure for most technical gremlins – also known as switching it off and on again.

Chelmsford general manager Fraser Garrity declared ”No stone will be left unturned to get to the bottom of this and it is an absolute priority with all the relevant people coming in tomorrow morning, including the BHA inspector of courses Nicky Carlisle.”

Back to the 5.00 and Lady Adelaide is my nap of the day, the Roger Charlton trained filly went into my notebook after a highly promising debut effort at Newbury when a neck second to Muchly.

With normal improvement she can step up to win this – there’s plenty of newcomers which will help make the market including the John Gosden trained Fanfaronade but I think the experience of Lady Adelaide will win the day.

6.30 Kempton Glorious Charmer seemed to win with plenty in hand at Yarmouth and might be able to strike again in this competitive nursery.

The Ed Walker trained runner is up 5lb for that win but still looks progressive against some of these who are proving hard to win with.

DAQMAN’S BETS (staked to win 20 points including place bet)
BET 7.1pts win JUST MINDED (12.45 Bangor)
BET 1pt win 4pts place TZAR DE L’ELFE (1.30 Exeter)
BET 10pts win (nap) LADY ADELAIDE (5.00 Kempton)
BET 4.1pts win GLORIOUS CHARMER (6.30 Kempton)



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