Nap of the Day: Seven-year-old hoping to repeat Doncaster success

There are eight cards to look forward to on Saturday, with Flat racing at Musselburgh, Cork, and Wolverhampton (AW), while jumps fans can get their fill of the action from Haydock, Fairyhouse, Carlisle, Newton Abbot and Huntingdon.

Our Nap of the Day runs in the 14:46 at Haydock, where Harry Cobden and Paul Nicholls team up in the Pertemps Network Challenger Stayers Hurdle Series Final Handicap Hurdle.

14:46 Haydock Odds

JAKAR DU MOULIN got on the board at the sixth time of asking, beating Duel Au Soleil by a head at Ascot in December, but he followed it up in real style last month at Doncaster.

The Kapgarde gelding was seven lengths better than I Am Max on Town Moor, taking the lead before the third last, before Freddie Gingell kept him on for an impressive victory.

Jakar Du Moulin has been hit by an 8lb rise as a result of that success, but this progressive sort still looks to be ahead of the handicapper.

While Gingell excelled on board at Doncaster, it was Cobden in the plate at Ascot.

There was no British jumps racing on Friday, but he is all-in for the weekend, with this one of six rides at Haydock, before another sextet beckons at Cork on Easter Sunday.

Cobden and Nicholls combined for a win with Order On Time at Chepstow on Thursday and his form, plus Jakar Du Moulin's progress, make it feel like the oddsmakers may have missed a trick with his price of 7/2 at the time of writing.

After taking time for the penny to drop over hurdles, the seven-year-old looks to be improving with every run and the 3m½f trip is a repeat of his Doncaster success.

Handicaps at and around 3m appear to be his thing and Nicholls' gelding is hard to ignore at Haydock, where connections will be hunting down a hat-trick.

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