MAGIC OF DAQMAN: BACK-TO-BACK NAPS: After four naps up out of five last week, Daqman has landed two more in a row, thanks to A Little Magic (WON 11-4). That’s big magic to his followers. The two best bets were:
WON 11-10 Lady Karina (Wednesday)
WON 11-4 A Little Magic (Thursday)
MAGIC OF DAQMAN: ONE-TWO HAT-TRICK: Also this week he has aimed at winning three times in one race: a BETDAQ win on a short shot, and a win and place on an outsider, with the option of a Ladbrokes forecast. Result: three out of three, with ever-increasing forecast returns: 4-1, 10-1 and yesterday 16-1:
WON 8-13 The Nipper (Tuesday)
2nd 7-1 Phoeniciana (from 8.4 on BETDAQ)
WON 6-4 Callett Mad (Wednesday)
2nd 6-1 Roc d’Apsis (from 10.0 on BETDAQ)
WON 4-5 Top Ville Ben (Thursday)
2nd 16-1 Whatmore (from 19.0 on BETDAQ)
THE KING GEORGE MEMORIAL..
It’s Friday 13th: keep wrapped up! It’s not so much the cold and snow but the spread in the last few months of other diseases of the mouth and nervous system, often accompanied by an enlarged ego and a jaundiced appearance: Towering Trumpitis (mustard coating, red capped) and Fuming Farage (more mustard coating, but with Russian collar) to name but two, as they say.
Newly arrived is an equine disease that strikes suddenly: Scourge of Sunbury (wear the fox hat), in which a group of people called the Jockey Club sat in secret and decided that, if the government couldn’t afford new homes, then they – stout followers of Mother Theresa – would sell a racecourse called Kempton Park as a site for building 2,000 houses for needy people (namely, the Jockey Club).
It’s mustard. But the local MP, who actually works for Mother Theresa, is not happy, and it is feared that he may have the second stage of Trumpitis, rejection of all secret intelligence.
However, the public arbiter of good taste, Alice Treedown, declared from his Post that we need ‘the best sort of modernity driven by the shape of how we need to be in the future.’
Very good; but what does it mean? Instead of rushing to check that out with my translator, one Putin, I came up with an idea all of my own as a thankyou to the Jockey Club (check the fevered brow, Daqman):
All JC members should be moved to a free council house next to their proposed Sunbury super-estate. Instead of old-fashioned amenities (gardens and a golf course), they would have the best of modernity: a Polytrack park, which would be called the King George VI Memorial Park.
I can just see them now happily skateboarding in their new paradise – past sculptures of Denman and Kauto Star – once portly gentlemen of the turf but now the shape of what we all need to be. Ah, progress!
O O SEVEN, LICENSED TO THRILL
1.50 Huntingdon I am told to keep an eye on Quarenta but I should think his time will come when he’s qualified for a handicap mark.
The race is much more likely to go to one of the three previous winners in this maiden. They’ve won only bumpers of course but all have claims.
Burbank who runs for the tracks’ leading trainer, Nicky Henderson, has the advantage of having run an excellent second in a big field over today’s CD in early December.
Huntingdon, too, was the scene of Glen Forsa’s NH Flat race success, when he looked green, and it remains to be seen what he can do with obstacles in the way.
Calva D’Honore looked good first time hurdling, also here, but weakened when stepped up in trip at Fontwell. The return to the minimum today could help.
2.20 Huntingdon Arbeo goes for a hat-trick in this off the same mark as when he won it last year. He’s won it from the front and he’s won it from behind.
But there’s just 5lb separating the first seven left in this handicap (three withdrawals this morning) and Arbeo is easy to back at 11.0 after two poor efforts in December.
The stable remains out of form but he could bounce back as a winner three times in January (2011, 2015, 2016)
Northandsouth (talk about mouth!) is still looking for his first success over fences but, as he’s a 2m hurdles winner, this trip should suit over fences, an opinion confirmed by his breeding: 6.6 on BETDAQ.
2.50 Huntingdon What to make of Divin Bere? Some French buys win first time. I don’t know how many, but I know a man who does: my anorak down the road says it’s 6-4 against.
That’s only four winners in 10 but doesn’t account for Nicky Hendersons’ ability get them fit and his penchant for winners on this Huntingdon track.
I fancied Master Blueyes at a place called Kempton (that’s an out-of-date racecourse at Sunbury-on-Thames that ought to be pulled down) and it was no disgrace for him to be beaten by Divin Bere’s stablemate Charli Parcs.
You could say that is a clear indication that Henderson thinks he should beat Blueyes again with Divin Bere. It ain’t necessarily so but the black mark against Master Blueyes, is that his Flat form suggests that he needs another half-mile over hurdles and m,y be beaten for pace.
3.20 Huntingdon O O Seven, a cast-off from my Fortune Cookies, is a standout at this level and would complete a treble for trainer Henderson on the day.
He sustained a disappointing defeat at Doncaster, but that was in a Grade 2 and he’s been placed 7-7 going right-handed, including success on today’s course in both a bumper and a hurdles race.
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked 1 to 9 for strength; 10 is a banker)
BACK 5pts win NORTHANDSOUTH, and 2pts win and place ARBEO (2.20 Huntinggon)
BANKER: BACK 10pts win (nap) O O SEVEN (3.20 Huntingdon)
DAQ MULTIPLES (Henderson trio): 3 x 3pt win doubles and 1pt win treble Burbank (1.50 Huntingdon), Divin Bere (2.50 Huntingdon) and O O Seven (3.20 Huntingdon)
Did you know that as well as checking the realtime prices on BETDAQ below – you can also log into your account and place your bets directly into BETDAQ from BETDAQ TIPS.
