THREE NAPS AND NEARLY 80 POINTS: Nine winners over six profitable days in a row (total 79.95 points) with his third nap out of five yesterday. That’s Daqman! But the credit goes to BETDAQ, where both Sunday winners were big value.
Sunday: 19 points profit on the day
WON 4-1 TEMPTATIONINMILAN (from 8.2 on BETDAQ)
WON 2-1 MUSICAL SLAVE (nap, from 3.9 on BETDAQ)
Saturday: 38.40 points profit on the day
WON 16-1 ZANZA (win and place)
WON 7-1 FUNAMBULE SIVOLA
Friday: 4.30 points profit on the day
WON 8-11 CRAMBO (nap)
Thursday: 4 points profit on the day
WON 9-2 MARBLE SANDS
Wednesday: 3.50 points profit on the day
WON 3-1 EARL OF TYRONE (nap)
Tuesday: 10.75 points profit on the day
WON 2-1 SHIGHNESS
WON 11-8 BIT HARSH
DAQMAN LEADS PRICEWISE 14-12: Daqman’s winners gave him a 14-12 season’s lead over Pricewise of the Racing Post, so look out in the week for his Fortune Cookies update and weekend previews, as he plans his next moves.
STAYERS: ALL GUNS BLAZING
ONLY believe what you see yourself. A certain William Hill is famous for saying that but, as layer and backer alike puts his neck on the line, he looks for scraps to help him decide his own fate.
And yesterday ‘they’ had put it about that Blazing Khal needed the race before the Boyne Hurdle at Navan.
All I can say is more fool me for listening and, if that is what he does when he is short of work, then the Stayers Hurdle at Cheltenham is in the bag when he’s fit!
Bookies had Khal between 12-1 and 20-1 for the Stayers when the season proper started in the autumn.
You’ll be lucky to get 5-2 now, as I rub out the redact on his place in the Fortune Cookies list. Trainer Charles Byrnes said after the Boyne that Khal was ‘fairly fit.’
I thought to temper enthusiasm because the time was moderate but races were run 20-seconds-plus most of the day (one was 34.60 slow), which hardly corresponds to good to yielding.
The forecast going is another thing you have to take with a pinch of salt. Or is it the returned going that’s suspect!
I got one thing right in the race yesterday. My Lays Logic opposed the even-money favourite, Saint Sam, who was beaten nearly 11 lengths, out of the frame.
Delta Work? Last most of the way and looks with hindsight like the kind of prep run for the cross-country you would expect of one who isn’t Tiger Roll after all.
The exchange markets had it right. Before and during the race, he drifted between 11.0 and 29.0, though 9-1 SP with bookmakers.
BETDAQ 8.8 FAIRWAY SHOT
Surely we can do better than this. I wish we were back at Navan, despite my masochistic blip yesterday.
Catterick has three races of two and three runners and Plumpton is offering only one race, other than the maiden, which has eight runners.
Those who look for Point or bumper winner to help with the maiden had best swerve it right now; there are six previous winners. Moving swiftly on then..
⭕ 2.00 Plumpton Local trainers are 100% in this, represented today by Nick Gifford’s Fairway Freddy. Since March, 2021, his Plumpton form is 113102, still standing.
Gifford is 221 with his fancied runners (under 10-1) in the last fortnight.
A very kind handicapper has dropped ‘Freddie’ to within a pound of his last strike here, which was on the sound surface he seemingly gets today.
En Coeur is overall 2112313321 at Plumpton but has never won off a mark higher than 86 (he’s on 93 today) and all bar one win had ‘soft’ in the going return.
His Seamus Mullins stable is 0-14, with its last five runners given almost no hope at SPs of 25-1, 25-1, 100-1, 80-1 and 14-1. All out of the first three.
Heritier is a winner three times on ‘soft’ but 0034 on ‘good.’ Dom Of Mary was going well when he fell here on his return from a long holiday, so his defeat as favourite last time was disappointing.
Betdaq Betting Exchange 8.8 Fairway Freddie
EVENTFUL REPEAT YET 11.5
⭕ 2.45 Catterick Hughie Morrison rarely goes to this track, A1 by route reference but hardly by quality today.
Hughie, who is currently 2-2 and with his Catterick score overall 2-4, saddles American Gerry, a winner here last year at this time on a sound surface. BETDAQ 4.6.
The Navigator scored in a higher grade at Kelso (2m 5f) on good ground in September and has dropped to within a pound of that winning mark. BETDAQ 5.1
⭕ 4.00 Plumpton Trainers in good form here are Alastair Ralph (but odds-on Well Vicky carries a 14lb penalty), Oliver Greenall and Tom Symonds (Citizen Jane has weak form).
Oliver Greenall’s grey filly Paddy’s Fancy could stop Well Vicky’s hat-trick. She won a moderate affair on firm ground at Leicester and can be forgiven subsequent defeats (raised to a Listed; then beaten by hock-deep mud at Musselburgh).
But the local stable of Jim and Suzi Best won this race last year with Eventful, who scored on a sound surface at Southwell in November, and BETDAQ offers are far too big this morning.
BETDAQ value 11.5 Eventful
DOYLE BACK AT THE DOUBLE
⭕ 7.00 and 7.30 Wolverhampton James Doyle is currently 7-12; four winners at Meydan but nipping home to notch 2-3 at Kempton and one ride, one winner, here at Wolver.
While his mount, Baldomero (7 0’clock), has a sequence of 223 here, Civil Law (hat-trick bid) and War In Heaven (four-timer) are on winning streaks.
But War In Heaven (up 15lb overall) has to leap three grades from class 5, and Civil Law is 2lb worse off with Baldomero (beaten a head) after their one-two here on Boxing Day.
With Buxted Too (7.30 race) a nonner, Doyle’s later ride, Nolton Cross, a winner here early in the year in 2022, returned to form at Southwell the last day.
Tequilamockingbird is back in her grade but CD-winner Victory March is still high in the handicap.
BETDAQ value 2.78 Nolton Cross, 10.5 Baldomero
DAQMAN’S BETS
2.00 Plumpton (win 20)
BET 2pts win FAIRWAY FREDDIE
2.45 Catterick (win-12 bets)
BET 3.25pts win AMERICAN GERRY
BET 3pts win THE NAVIGATOR
4.00 Plumpton (win-50 bull’s-eye bet)
BET 4.75pts win EVENTFUL
7.00 Wolverhampton (win-50 bull’s-eye nap)
BET 5.25pts win BALDOMERO|
7.25 Wolverhampton (win 10)
BET 5.5pts win NOLTON CROSS
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