SEE HOW THEY WON! YOUR TIPS: 2017 REVIEW: Daqman’s special features in the next three weeks begin today and tomorrow with ratified accounts of his success in this column in 2017. This is the consistency you can look forward to year on year.
SEE HOW THEY WON! YOUR STATS: 2018 RACES: Daqman complained last week that the Pricewise column was way off the mark in analysing Cheltenham ante-post. Next week he reveals where the festival winners come from, and at the end of the month lists his Fortune Cookies and the February races that matter.
BLUE MONDAY: It’s ‘Blue Monday’ but no need to be depressed. DAQMAN’s NAP is blue and has a great chance at Wolverhampton.
MONTHLY DAQMAN HEADLINES
Daqman’s working for you. He began last year with a winner at around 20-1 and he ended last year with a winner at around 20-1 (in fact, 19.5 on BETDAQ), according to his accounts for 2017, from which monthly headlines are reproduced below.
January: Daqman flyer with 20-1 winner
January: 14 naps up in 26 days
January: 17 Fortune Cookie winners
January: Four naps a week for four weeks
January: Seven bankers up out of 10
February: 19 winning naps (51% strike rate)
February: 10 winning bankers out of 15
February: Five naps worth 253 points profit
March: Seven bankers up out of eight
March: 116 points profit in one day
March: Six winners in a row: 154 points
April: Early Birds make 483 points profit
April: Three winners a day at Punchestown festival
April: Four naps in a row
May: Nine bankers out of 12
May: Three Classic winners in two days
May: Four winning naps in a row
May: Eight naps out of 11 for 313 points profit
May: 24-1 double and all three big-race winners
June: Seven consecutive Classic winners
June: 25-1 Oaks ante-post coup
June: Another 25-1 winner in the Dash
June: Four naps in a row, one at 7-1
June: 117 points profit in one bet
June: 69 points profit over Pricewise at Ascot
June: Daqman beats Pricewise 10-0
June: Eight Ascot w/p bets (11.0 to 34.0) all placed
July: Banker wins by 34 lengths
July: Daqman lands 8-1 Eclipse winner
July: 8-1 big-race strike in John Smith’s
July: 9-1 among 11 returns in three days
July: Daqman horse of the season Enable lands King George
July: 50-1 winner among four on King George day
July: 50-point hit at Deauville
Aug: Goodwood Cup winner 6-1
Aug: 9-1 Deauville sprint winner
Aug: Four consecutive returns include 11-1 winner
Aug: Seven wins in two days include 9-2 nap
Aug: Consecutive big winners, Juddmonte International, Great Voltigeur
Sep: 12-1 nap up
Sep: Supernaps hat-trick
Oct: Enable (supernap) wins the Arc
Oct: 16-1 Brimham rocks Pricewise
Oct: 110 points profit from six winners
Oct: French St Leger winner at 51-10
Oct: 14-1 Diamond in the rough
Nov: Six winning days in a row for 104 points
Nov: Supernap wins by 22 lengths
Nov: Greatwood scorer Elgin super value at 17.5
Nov: Five naps in a row
Dec: Daqman reaches 500 winners over Pricewise
Dec: Three big-race winners in a row
Dec: Same-day supernap double
Dec: 6.2 nap wins on AW
Dec: Daqman scores five on one card
Dec: Big-race hit with Anibale Fly (WON 14-1 from 19.5 Betdaq)
A VERY BLUE MONDAY AT WOLVERHAMPTON
Ayr and Plumpton are 469.08 miles apart according to my RAC route planner but they have one thing very much in common today. Bottomless ground at both venues.
In the circumstances the field sizes have held up quite well with just four non runners at both tracks at the time of writing.
There’s a fast-track qualifier at Wolverhampton which is head and shoulders the best race on the day they call Blue Monday – supposedly the most depressing day of the whole year but DAQMAN is forecasting a very happy AND BLUE Monday.
One bet from each course:
1.10 Ayr The opener is a riddle wrapped up in an enigma but I think I’ve spotted one. Irish raider Benefit North and Well Smitten are both on the comeback trail after failing to complete last time whilst Grand Morning was third in a modest race at Hexham on debut.
At bigger odds (7.6 at the time of writing) I thought Nando was interesting win and place. The German bred runner has gone off favourite in both bumper starts, so clearly has been showing something and although beaten on both occasions has shown a hint of ability. Trainer Nicky Richards is in better form and he could play a big part here on his hurdling debut in a race that won’t take a lot of winning.
It’s a WIN 20 bet for me on both BETDAQ WIN and PLACE markets.
3.40 Plumpton Jersey Bean is the top BETDAQ mover of the day and I’m not surprised. The favourite Brainstorm is proving hard to win with and Jersey Bean, an Ascot bumper winner, is still lightly raced and surely worth another chance here after unseating at the first at Fontwell last time.
6.40 Wolverhampton Frontiersman can put the blue into Blue Monday and is a NAP for the boys in blue. The Charlie Appleby trained runner is comfortably the best horse in the race on official ratings and can land this which will give him the golden entry ticket to All Weather Championships Finals Day on Good Friday at Lingfield.
The Appleby stable won it last year with Antiquarium and Frontiersman, a son of Dubawi is taken to relish the step up in trip.
He was certainly staying on to good effort when running his career best – a second to Highland Reel in the Coronation Cup at Epsom and has run creditable races since then including a Listed race win at Newmarket.
He does race on the all-weather for the first time (otherwise would have been SUPERNAP) but I don’t anticipate that causing any problems and he should outclass these.
DAQMAN’S BETS (all bets to win 20 points):
BET 3.0pts win and 16.6pts place NANDO (1.10 Ayr)
BET 8.0pts win JERSEY BEAN (3.40 Plumpton)
BET 11.5pts win (nap) FRONTIERSMAN (6.40 Wolverhampton)
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