NAPS HAT-TRICK AS DAQMAN PROFITS FROM EVERY BETDAQ BET: Four more winning bets took Daqman’s total to ELEVEN in four days, as he explores the range available on BETDAQ. He landed his third consecutive nap, and immediately took a 22.50-point lead over Pricewise in their value challenge. Every type of bet is in profit, with the scores: naps 3-3 (plus 34.0), supernaps 1-1 (+4.00), Fortune Cookies 2-3 (+9.00), Daqman v Pricewise (1-0) 22.50 lead, place bets 1-2 (+7.00), lay 1-1 (+3.00), back and lay 3-3. No experiments today but another supernap.
Monday
✔️ WON 5-4 VICTOR LUDORUM (Fortune Cookie, French 2,000 Guineas)
✔️ WON 10-11 FRANKLY DARLING (nap)
✔️ WON (2nd 11-1 w/p) ELECTRIC PRINCESS (from 23.0 on BETDAQ)
✔️ WON (lay) STONE MASON (unplaced 15-8 favourite)
Sunday
✔️ WON 1-5 OCEAN ATLANTIQUE (supernap and Fortune Cookie)
✔️ WON 3-5 ROSE GOLD
Saturday
✔️ WON 5-1 JUGEOTTE from 9.0 on BETDAQ
✔️ WON 23-10 ENOLA GAY from 6.5 BETDAQ
✔️ WON 23-10 HIGH KING (nap)
Friday
✔️ WON 54-10 SPIRIT INTIME from 9.0 on BETDAQ
✔️ WON 14-5 FANTASIA DU ROCK
DAY-ONE DERBY AND OAKS STARS
⭐ A star is born. Andre Fabre’s Victor Ludorum, held up at the back of the field in a super-confident ride by Mickael Barzelona, overtook them all down the stands’ side, straight and true as an arrow, to go clear in yesterday’s French 2,000 Guineas and raise hopes of the French Derby. He was Daqman’s Fortune Cookie. His headline: Formidable Fabre To be Victor.
⭐ A star is born. Frankly Darling delivered a similar run through a maiden field on the opening day at Newcastle, to take her place in the Oaks line-up for John Gosden. She was Daqman’s nap. Daughter of Frankel, dam a Daylami mare. His headline: Frankly, My Dear, I Give A Dam.
Alignak and Art Power were also good winners as racing returned to England under cover but Daqman has a word of warning: the track was riding slow, and slowed further as the races were run.
TAKE POSITION ON HIDDEN HORSE
NEWCASTLE WINNERS YESTERDAY: trainer Roger Fell (jockey James Sullivan), Brian Ellison (Ben Robinson), Michael Appleby (Alistair Rawlinson), Tim Easterby (Silvestre De Sousa), Richard Fahey (Tony Hamilton), Kevin Ryan (Andrea Atzeni), Les Eyre (Lewis Edmunds), Sir Michael Stoute (Oisin Murphy), John Gosden (Robert Havlin), Roger Varian (David Egan).
⭕ 1.20 Newcastle The track was riding slow yesterday. By the time we got to the last three races, they were run eight or nine seconds down. So your pick needs to get the trip.
This is the first of three races of class 2 and 3, which I always prefer to lower grades, in which the form is unreliable.
Fifth Position is a hidden horse, yet 3.8 BETDAQ favourite. He was third at Goodwood in the Derby trial a year or so ago; then aimed at the Cambridgeshire in which he ran well.
Dark Vision has shed a few pounds but it’s 80 days since Mark Johnston had a winner, and his three starters yesterday got no nearer than 13 lengths off the winner, all easy to back.
Richard Fahey won with Brian The Snail yesterday, and Irreverent scored first time out last season and again six weeks later.
Looks well drawn but both those wins were over 7f. His later mile win was when odds-on in a four-horse race. Hard to assess but worth a pound at BETDAQ 9.8.
Club Wexford won three out of four last summer and Roger Fell had the first winner yesterday but he’s plenty high enough in the handicap, without his usual claimer up and they can’t give him away at 30.0.
A FATHER-AND-SON FIRST-TIMER
⭕ 2.10 Kempton The card at Kempton is modest, with this class-4 sprint the best race on offer. I took 7.0 Mercenary Rose.
Paul Cole is often an early bird and Mercenary Rose goes well fresh. The worry is that the filly’s success over the CD was when blinkered first time.
But this is first runner for Paul’s new registration of father-and-son team, Paul and Oliver Cole, so I think they will want it.
Bad draw but stall 9 is where she came from, fast out and switched to the rail, when she ran all over her field here in October.
⭕ 2.30 Newcastle Sir Michael Stoute was off the mark yesterday and Mubakker is an impressive 2-2 on AW, including on Wolverhampton’s Tapeta.
Tim Easterby had a winner yesterday and Hyperfocus is a Newcastle CD winner, but I can’t see him giving 2lb to Mubakker.
Hyperfocus was 7lb lower when scoring at Ripon last year at this time: he has miskicked in front of goal since then – second in both the Great St Wilfrid and the Coral Sprint – which explains his position in the handicap.
Cosmic Law was just run out of it over the CD last June and could go well for Richard Fahey, who also saddles Gabrial The Wire.
Kevin Ryan does well with horses moved to him and Jostanotherbottle is interesting on his Stewards Cup second but his best trip has been 5f.
At BETDAQ 11.5 today, Admiralty (Roger Fell) won first time back over 7f last season and ran a cracker in the Bunbury Cup, also a furlong further than today. He’s my second string to 3.6 Mubakker.
DETTORI FOR SUPERNAP RETURN
⭕ 4.30 Kempton Frankie’s back! And still some evens around for Galsworthy, a Dansili maiden so could come on in the proverbial leaps and bounds, with Dettori returning for John Gosden.
They have announced the Eclipse as the first race of 2020 for Enable. My man in the long grass who first warned me of Enable is a Galsworthy man this morning but he’s buying money for a bet at the Newmarket Guineas meeting. Watch this space!
DAQMAN’S BETS
1.20 Newcastle (win 20)
BET 7pts win FIFTH POSITION
BET 2.25pts win IRREVERENT
2.10 Kempton (win 10)
BET 2.6pts win MERCENARY ROSE
2.30 Newcastle (win 20)
BET 7.5pts win MUBAKKER
BET 2pts win ADMIRALTY
4.30 Kempton (supernap)
BET 20pts win GALSWORTHY
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