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It’s not elegant but this was my solution based on titles with todays date:

<?php date_default_timezone_set('Australia/Melbourne');
	$today = date ("l jS F Y");
	$today1 = date ("l jS F Y") . "-1";
	$today2 = date ("l jS F Y") . "-2";
	$today3 = date ("l jS F Y") . "-3";
	$today4 = date ("l jS F Y") . "-4";
	$today5 = date ("l jS F Y") . "-5";
	$today6 = date ("l jS F Y") . "-6";
	$today7 = date ("l jS F Y") . "-7";
	$today8 = date ("l jS F Y") . "-8";
	$today9 = date ("l jS F Y") . "-9";
	$today10 = date ("l jS F Y") . "-10";
	$today11 = date ("l jS F Y") . "-11";
?>

				<h2><center>Todays Events - <?php echo $today ;?></center></h2>
<br/>
				<?php $daysracing = new WP_Query("name=$today&posts_per_page=-1"); while($daysracing->have_posts()) : $daysracing->the_post();
				$category = get_the_category(); ?>
				<ul><li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php echo $category[0]->name; ?> for <?php the_title(); ?></a></li></ul>
				<div style="clear:both;"></div>
				<?php endwhile; ?>
				<?php $daysracing = new WP_Query("name=$today1&posts_per_page=-1"); while($daysracing->have_posts()) : $daysracing->the_post();
				$category = get_the_category(); ?>
				<ul><li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php echo $category[0]->name; ?> for <?php the_title(); ?></a></li></ul>
				<div style="clear:both;"></div>
				<?php endwhile; ?>
				<?php $daysracing = new WP_Query("name=$today2&posts_per_page=-1"); while($daysracing->have_posts()) : $daysracing->the_post();
				$category = get_the_category(); ?>
				<ul><li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php echo $category[0]->name; ?> for <?php the_title(); ?></a></li></ul>
				<div style="clear:both;"></div>
				<?php endwhile; ?>
				<?php $daysracing = new WP_Query("name=$today3&posts_per_page=-1"); while($daysracing->have_posts()) : $daysracing->the_post();
				$category = get_the_category(); ?>
				<ul><li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php echo $category[0]->name; ?> for <?php the_title(); ?></a></li></ul>
				<div style="clear:both;"></div>
				<?php endwhile; ?>
				<?php $daysracing = new WP_Query("name=$today4&posts_per_page=-1"); while($daysracing->have_posts()) : $daysracing->the_post();
				$category = get_the_category(); ?>
				<ul><li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php echo $category[0]->name; ?> for <?php the_title(); ?></a></li></ul>
				<div style="clear:both;"></div>
				<?php endwhile; ?>
				<?php $daysracing = new WP_Query("name=$today5&posts_per_page=-1"); while($daysracing->have_posts()) : $daysracing->the_post();
				$category = get_the_category(); ?>
				<ul><li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php echo $category[0]->name; ?> for <?php the_title(); ?></a></li></ul>
				<div style="clear:both;"></div>
				<?php endwhile; ?>
				<?php $daysracing = new WP_Query("name=$today6&posts_per_page=-1"); while($daysracing->have_posts()) : $daysracing->the_post();
				$category = get_the_category(); ?>
				<ul><li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php echo $category[0]->name; ?> for <?php the_title(); ?></a></li></ul>
				<div style="clear:both;"></div>
				<?php endwhile; ?>
				<?php $daysracing = new WP_Query("name=$today7&posts_per_page=-1"); while($daysracing->have_posts()) : $daysracing->the_post();
				$category = get_the_category(); ?>
				<ul><li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php echo $category[0]->name; ?> for <?php the_title(); ?></a></li></ul>
				<div style="clear:both;"></div>
				<?php endwhile; ?>
				<?php $daysracing = new WP_Query("name=$today8&posts_per_page=-1"); while($daysracing->have_posts()) : $daysracing->the_post();
				$category = get_the_category(); ?>
				<ul><li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php echo $category[0]->name; ?> for <?php the_title(); ?></a></li></ul>
				<div style="clear:both;"></div>
				<?php endwhile; ?>
				<?php $daysracing = new WP_Query("name=$today9&posts_per_page=-1"); while($daysracing->have_posts()) : $daysracing->the_post();
				$category = get_the_category(); ?>
				<ul><li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php echo $category[0]->name; ?> for <?php the_title(); ?></a></li></ul>
				<div style="clear:both;"></div>
				<?php endwhile; ?>
				<?php $daysracing = new WP_Query("name=$today10&posts_per_page=-1"); while($daysracing->have_posts()) : $daysracing->the_post();
				$category = get_the_category(); ?>
				<ul><li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php echo $category[0]->name; ?> for <?php the_title(); ?></a></li></ul>
				<div style="clear:both;"></div>
				<?php endwhile; ?>
				<?php $daysracing = new WP_Query("name=$today11&posts_per_page=-1"); while($daysracing->have_posts()) : $daysracing->the_post();
				$category = get_the_category(); ?>
				<ul><li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php echo $category[0]->name; ?> for <?php the_title(); ?></a></li></ul>
				<div style="clear:both;"></div>
				<?php endwhile; ?>

don’t worry – I’ve hard coded the images to force the cdn to load them.

still not sure why it wasn’t picking them up anyway

solved it myself by adding

'paged' => $paged,
'posts_per_page' => 20,

to the $customtypeargs array