FOUR WINNING NAPS IN A ROW AT ODDS AGAINST: Star tipster! Daqman made it four consecutive winning naps, and five out of six this week, when he cashed in on Star Catcher (WON 7-4) on British Champions Day at Ascot.
WON 7-4 STAR CATCHER (Saturday nap)
WON 11-4 TOUCH KICK (Friday nap)
WON 11-8 PROGRESSIVE RATING (Thursday nap)
WON 9-4 GLORY AND FORTUNE (Wednesday nap)
WON 10-11 TARBOOSH (Monday nap)
CHAMPIONS DAY WRAP: Which jockey stole the show at Ascot? Who’s got a star player for next year? Where were the hard-luck stories of Champions Day?
BOLD BETDAQ BETTING: Daqman gambles a bull’s-eye bet at Cork and has a supernap at Kempton plus a Durham National day pick at Sedgefield.
DEPUTY DONNACHA MAGICAL
Ascot was a champions day. Though sometimes it was a bit like having a shower before the rugby scrum, with races up to 10 seconds slow, the results were the normal mix of favourites, outsiders and hard-luck stories.
Magical was magical out of the shadow of Enable, whereas Star Catcher ground it out. But two great fillies. Star Catcher was John Gosden’s only hit in reply to an Aidan O’Brien double triumph, with son Donnacha deputising for Ryan Moore.
To say that Kew Gardens mastered Stradivarius doesn’t account for the superb ride by Donnacha O’Brien over Frankie Dettori, a mix of judgment and kidology.
No wonder Frankie worked hard on Star Catcher to redeem his day and land the 250 Group wins.
The judgment was also Aidan O’Brien’s, and it was confirmed that he has a mighty Cup horse for next season in a colt that had run askew over shorter in a light season. The Ballydoyle gardens will be blooming in 2020.
Richard Hannon wrought a great change in the luck of his king for a day, a fine ride by Sean Levey on Guineas runner-up King Of Change in the Mile.
It took nothing away from a bold bid by The Revenant and Pierre-Charles Boudot, though the Frenchman twice had the door shut on One Master in the sprint.
So both Enable and Stradivarius have had their sequences stopped. Today is the turn of 10-in-a-row serial killer, Beauty Generation, who bids for a third Sha Tin Trophy in Hong Kong. Roll on the Breeders Cup!
ANOTHER LEG TO NICHOLLS
2.45 Kempton Paul Nicholls is particularly good at bringing on young chasers and I was delighted to see the four-year-old Oleg a shade of odds against in the BETDAQ orange this morning. I need a successful supernap to lift me back over the 100-points profit mark.
For Paul to have won with Oleg on his local track, Wincanton, looks casual – so many stables go for their local option – but the Nicholls emporium is blessed with the toughest of tests just down the road in Wincanton and Exeter.
Oleg runs here to catch good ground (it was firm at ‘Winkers’) and keep the sequence going before all surfaces are soft.
4.05 Sedgefield (Durham National) BETDAQ ambassador Harry Whittington would complete a hat-trick of wins from one runner a day for three days, if Vinnie Lewis can capture this Durham National.
Already a Sedgefield winner over 3m 2f, and of the Sussex National at Plumpton on heavy ground, Vinnie gives a lot of weight to the consistent mare Chasma, but she’s trying this sort of trip for the first time.
Last year’s winner, Brian Boranha, has to bounce back after a long absence, in which he’s had a wind op. Philips Hobbs’ yard is in fine fettle but reaches for the blinkers for Scoop The Pot, who has shown very little this year.
WHY I TOOK 9.0 GAME OF WAR
4.50 Cork Henry de Bromhead has always considered Game Of War a quality horse, and interesting that he goes for this Grade B handicap chase first run back.
Game Of War hasn’t been seen very often but, as a ‘hidden horse’, he has excellent credentials: he has won every time after his last three breaks, long and short, with money talking every time.
He was easy to back early mouse on BETDAQ at Clonmel (December, 2017), Downpatrick (March 2018) and Thurles (November 2018) but won them all as the plunge horse: 9-2 in a field of 18, 2-1 favourite and 7-2.
The local Cork stables will try to keep this decent prize at home against the coastal raider: John Walsh (Ballyegan Hero) is in fine form (two wins from four still standing) and Terence O’Brien has two chances via Articulum and Lakemilan.
Any one of those could be my saver later on, now that I have a fantastic BETDAQ 9.0 Game Of War to play with as opening gambit in the race.
DAQMAN’S BETS
2.45 Kempton (supernap)
BET 20pts win OLEG
4.05 Sedgefield (win 20)
BET 5pts win VINNIE LEWIS
4.50 Cork (win 50)
BULL’S EYE BET: 6.25pts win GAME OF WAR
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