DAQMAN DOUBLE PUTS HIM 60 POINTS CLEAR: In a repetition of last weekend, Daqman beat Pricewise 2-0 yesterday with two feature-race winners out of three to take the winners score to Daqman 22, Pricewise 10, now 60 points clear to a level stake (single-unit per selection +44 profit to -16 loss).
WON 2-1 ENCORE D’OR (from 4.2 taken on BETDAQ)
WON 11-10 HEADWAY (from 2.66 taken on BETDAQ)
CHELTENHAM COUNTDOWN TO PRICE-WISE BETTING: Highlight of Saturday, with Cheltenham just around the corner, was the continuing value to be had on BETDAQ, with a low overround orange and reduced commission. Daqman starts a Cheltenham Countdown today, looking at festival value.
BUY INTO BETDAQ VALUE SURGE
A trap has been set for punters at Cheltenham. From the opening of the meeting – in fact particularly on the opening day – you lose even when you win.
Intent on an early satchel full, course bookmakers have the means of manipulating the day, so that markets make cash like even a betting-shop FOBT wouldn’t know how.
Attracted by the thrill of the day, the punter meekly hands over to the extent of giving the layer more than a third of his cash as part of each bet!
It happened on Day One last year. I’ll tell you about it first. The rest of my story is obvious. Stay with BETDAQ and you’ll find that Cheltenham betting hill is virtually a level playing-field. Just look at this for cheek: bookmakers at Cheltenham first day last year created these SP returns:
134% Arkle Challenge Trophy (2.10 Cheltenham, Tuesday, 2017)
130% Ultima Handicap Chase (2.50 Cheltenham, Tuesday, 2017)
135% Novices Chase (5.30 Cheltenham Tuesday, 2017)
This makes the week’s BETDAQ surge in value offers and low, low commission the big news of the coming Cheltenham Festival.
Compare those 30-plus percentage take-outs with the 100 to 108% overrounds in BETDAQ that I highlighted on Saturday.
Even the two big races winners that I pinched under Pricewise’s nose paid out to me in the morning that vital edge over SP that is the difference between winning and losing in the long term.
BETDAQ tells you at the top of the orange what the overround is (as I did the 108% in my opening race yesterday). Put your feet up at Cheltenham and bet punter-friendly markets all week.
FAHEY FLAG FLYING FOR LINCOLN
Five winners in two days is well hot. So you’d think I’d be featuring the current form of one, Brian Ellison.
But, apart from that scintillating last-to-first Headway win for William Haggas, the trainer who opened my eyes yesterday was Richard Fahey.
Look out, Fahey’s about! And Paul Hanagan has rejoined him in Yorkshire, Immediate result: Constantino’s Saturday swoop at Lingfield
It could be carnage in the Lincoln (Carnageo to be precise) with that one among nine Fahey entries for Hanagan to choose from.
IT’S DANCER’S DAY AT SOUTHWELL
2.45 Southwell Andrew Balding is also ready for the ‘off’ at Doncaster, with five (consecutive) winners from the last seven starters.
Dawn Dancer has looked a guaranteed future scorer since splitting a dual winner and a hat-trick scorer here at Southwell on the debut.
4.20 Southwell Cousin Khee is 11 now and hasn’t put back-to-back wins together since September 2015. It’s a hard thing to do at the veteran stage.
Western Way managed it at the age of nine, but not on this surface and not this high in the weights. Maybe Tom Tate’s been plotting up Leodis for a touch.
4.55 Southwell The donkeys from Skegness beach have been herded up and put in a wagon to Rolleston Junction. Here they are in a class 7.
I shall be backing Messrs Fahey and Hanagan (Street Sensation). The beast is wearing blinkers in case he catches sight of an ice-cream van and stops for one.
DAQMAN’S BETS (Southwell, each to win 20 points each)
BET 13pts win (nap) DAWN DANCER (2.45)
BET 3pts win LEODIS (4.20)
BET 6pts win STREET SENSATION (4.55)
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