FOURTEEN WINS AT ONE MEETING: After landing nine winning bets on the BETDAQ-sponsored card at Kempton in November, Daqman pledged to repeat the feat at the eight-race BETDAQ meeting at Doncaster yesterday, but landed FOURTEEN wins from 25 bets! He scored these landmarks:
Six double whammys (win and lay)
Four winners in a row (six altogether)
Eight consecutive lays up
15 LAYS IN A ROW: 28 OUT OF 30: Daqman also tipped Blaklion (WON 3-1) at Cheltenham, had a win-20 bet on Red Devil Boys (WON 10-3) and made Volnay De Thaix (WON 4-11) a Gold Banker nap. He’s had 25 winning bets in six days and his state of play, including 15 lays up in a row (28 out of 30), is now:
Bankers 2111F1121311
Naps 113211011101F001F21232112213111321
Lays 1111111111111xx111111111111111
Value challenge: Daqman 11, Pricewise 4 (overall 257-99)
HERE’S THE DAQMAN DONCASTER ROMP: These are the Daqman successes race by race at Doncaster yesterday:
WIN WIN Waltz Darling WON 3-1 (lay Cernunnos 2nd 6-1)
WIN WIN Winter Escape WON 15-8 (lay Call To Order 3rd 11-4)
WIN WIN Unbuckled WON 5-2 (lay Top Priority unplaced 8-1)
WIN WIN Flemensmix WON 15-8 (lay Polarbrook 2nd 10-1)
WIN (lay Desert Joe unplaced 100-30 favourite)
WIN (lay Tambura 3rd 9-4 favourite)
WIN WIN Volnay de Thaix, banker nap, WON 4-11 (lay Katgary 3rd 5-1)
WIN WIN Red Devil Boys WON 100-30 (lay Abidjan unplaced 5-2 favourite)
ANNACOTTY TO LAND ‘GOLD’ DOUBLE
1.50 Cheltenham (December Gold Cup) This is a case of who you can trust to carry your hard-earned.
With nine more losers yesterday, Paul Nicholls (now 1-35) is rapidly dropping off many a Christmas-card list (Daqman passim).
One of them may deliver, but it’s hard to imagine investing as much as a postage stamp – even ironically – on Sound Investment or my ABC top-shot, Art Mauresque (Wednesday’s column in the Daqman Archive)
Jonjo O’Neill (Johns Spirit) continues missing strike badly with three seconds among seven straight losers yesterday, bringing his current run to 1-23.
Sound Investment (3rd), Art Mauresque (6th) and Johns Spirit (9th) – along with runner-up Buywise – all finished behind Annacotty in the PP Gold Cup over the same distance here a month ago. Buywise is raised 4lb and 5lb for being beaten.
Today’s race switches to the new course, and another big difference may be the rain: it threatens to turn the going soft-heavy.
That will suit Champagne West, but his form is linked to Ptit Zig and Knock House, who have disappointed when aimed higher this season. He’s returning from a long absence, and Richard Johnson prefers Village Vic. Lay for a place.
Little Jon loves the mud. He was 9lb better for 10 lengths with Irish Cavalier on Cheltenham Festival form after running fourth to Annacotty, for which he’s 5lb better for eight lengths.
Nigel Twiston-Davies won this with Double Ross a couple of years back, the same age as Little Jon.
Little Jon and Art Mauresque are likely to front-run, and hold-up horse Annacotty may still be the one to beat, with Alan King reckoning the rain will help. But Little Jon has stamina in his DNA; we know he has courage, and the 5lb claimer puts him right in the swim.
It will be a major feat of training if Willie Mullins can return Mozoltov to 2014 form; the nine-year-old would be found wanting even then.
Mozoltov has shed a couple of pounds, whereas Texas Jack, another Irish raider who hasn’t won since 2014 – he has had a blood disorder – has spent a long time in Graded races since, is down 11lb this year and loves it soft. Barry Geraghty rides.
Also emerging from training problems is Village Vic, just now fulfilling his potential, and ‘the same horse’ as Little Jon on lines through Upepito, but he may want better ground.
The inexperienced two-miler Doctor Phoenix likes it soft; so, too, Tenor Nivernais, slightly better equipped for this according to the ratings than Venetia Williams’ winner last year, Niceonefrankie, though 0-6 overall at Cheltenham, including on this New Course in January.
BETTING VERDICT: The 9.2 Annacotty and Little Jon in BETDAQ offers this morning appeal more than similar prices for Buywise and Champagne West.
ORDER-IN: 1 Annacotty, 2 Little Jon, 3 Texas Jack
PADGE COULD PINCH IT AT A PRICE
12.05 Cheltenham (Triumph Hurdle Trial) We’ve had a Triumph Hurdle winner (Katchit), and a second, third and fourth from the winner of this in the last eight years.
Leoncavallo is unbeaten in five starts over hurdles but just one UK success and once disqualified has put Sceau Royal on level terms, according to the official ratings.
Sceau Royal just hung on but swerved when Adrien Du Pont, too free early, came back at him at Chepstow. A similar tenacious attitude kept Leoncavallo in front of Sceau Royal at Wetherby.
It’s all down to improvement, which only the race will tell, and of course tactics, with three horses, theoretically, on 140 and all the help you can get from a BETDAQ orange totalling only 104%. I’ll take Leoncavallo at an orange squeeze of 4.0.
12.40 Cheltenham Despite fields of only three and five, the race has given us Oscar Whiskey and Champagne West (runs today) in the last two seasons and goes back through the decade to Exotic Dancer (twice placed in the Gold Cup) and Don’t Push It (won the Grand National).
World Hurdle winner More Of That made a solid start to his chasing career on the old course. Sametegal was still ‘novicey’ at Newbury.
The improver, Padge, a Flemensfirth out of an Old Vic mare, may be value at 7.6 with Jonjo O’Neill and Paul Nicholls so badly out of form.
KEEL FIRST WHEN THE BOAT COMES IN
1.15 Cheltenham Though Pearls Legend is better off at the weights, Keel Haul impressed on the old course a month back on good ground, though his form has all soft-heavy success.
Pearls Legend as the benchmark must also come close to revenge on Cold March, and Bold Henry comes into it, though his age puts me off, suggesting improvement is hardly likely. That also applies to Eastlake. My first position was 7.0 Keel Haul.
2.25 Cheltenham This race has produced two Cheltenham winners in the decade, Black Jack Ketchum, and – three years ahead of his Gold Cup – Coneygree.
Final Nudge beats Justanother Muddle on a line through Tippmanboy and the more rain the better.
This is 3m and the one who’s got the tea-shirt is Net Work Rouge, who made all over 3m 2f at Warwick.
But Final Nudge (7.4 offers) and Justanother Muddle are both by stamina-potent sire, Kayf Tara, and both a year younger than the favourite, Uknowhatimeanharry. No seven-year-old has won in the decade.
2.40 Doncaster Paul Nicholls goes for a hat-trick in this, and It’s A Close Call has been given time to recover from a reappearance win after a long lay-off.
But, even without feeding into the algorithm the cloud over the Nicholls stable, Southfield Royale is top of my list of novices for the future and can be yet another flag on the map for Neil Mulholland’s burgeoning career. I nice nap at 2.76 this morning.
ON GUARD FOR OUR CHAMPION OUTSIDER
3.00 Cheltenham (International Hurdle) Stars like Binocular and The New One have won this since 2008, and today it contains my Champion Hurdle outsider, Old Guard.
He has to be backed, despite the stable form, as a saver to me ante-post bet in this column. Fortunately, Triumph Hurdle winner, Peace And Co, is backable to cover that plan.
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked to win 20 points, except bull’s-eye bets)
BET 6pts win LEONCAVALLO (12.05 Cheltenham)
BET 3pts win PADGE (12.40 Cheltenham)
BET 3.30pts win KEEL HAUL (1.15 Cheltenham)
TRIPLE WHAMMY: LAY for a place 5pts CHAMPAGNE WEST, and BULL’S-EYE BETS (win 50): 6pts win on each ANNACOTTY and LITTLE JON, and 2pts win and place TEXAS JACK (1.50 Cheltenham)
BET 3pts win FINAL NUDGE (2.25 Cheltenham)
BET 11pts win (nap) SOUTHFIELD ROYALE (2.40 Doncaster)
BET 3pts win OLD GUARD and 4pts win (stakes saver) PEACE AND CO (3.00 Cheltenham)
DAQ MULTIPLES: 5 x 2pt win doubles and 2 x 1pt win trebles Keel Haul (1.15 Cheltenham) with Annacotty and Little Jon (1.50 Cheltenham) and Southfield Royale (2.40 Doncaster)
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