ANOTHER WINNING DAQMAN DAY: Winner-a-day Daqman did not make a major fortune yesterday but he has kept his sequence going with not just a winner a day but a profit every day this week, thanks to his famous staking plan. And he has now landed 16 naps this year for a 37% strike rate.
WON 8-13 MAJOR FORTUNE (Tuesday nap)
WON 6-5 KOTMASK (Monday)
WON 15-2 ASK ME EARLY (BETDAQ 10.5 Sunday)
WON (2nd 28-1) w/p L’EAU DU SUD (Saturday)
NEXT STEP FOR 14 NATIONAL HOPES: It’s the annual game of guess the Grand National weights! Daqman finds that 18 possibles have been in the race before, and he has the prep races and big contests for 14 of them
AINTREE CARD: WEIGHT FOR IT!
⭕ 4pm Liverpool, April 13th (Grand National) All eyes are on the handicapper, as he prepares the 2024 Grand National weights, to be released next Tuesday. What will your fancy get?
The last two winners, Corach Rambler and Noble Yeats, can’t escape from their high ratings but Capodanno and Coko Beach (both pulled up last year) will be hoping for a break this time, though they are both in big-race form.
These are last year’s runners coming back for more (among them five who will go to Aintree for a third time).
They are listed in order of finish, with the change in their rating since then (>up or <down) and their target races before the National, including five with plans for this weekend.
WIN 146>159 CORACH RAMBLER Cheltenham Gold Cup
2ND 147>151 VANILLIER Cheltenham Gold Cup
3RD 155>156 GAILLARD DU MESNIL Cheltenham Gold Cup
4TH 166=166 NOBLE YEATS Cheltenham Cross-Country, Stayers Hurdle
WIN 147>166 in 2022
7TH 149<147 ROI MAGE Cheltenham Cross-Country
8TH 145<138 MISTER COFFEY NH Chase, Cheltenham
(10) 152<151 LE MILOS pick of Ascot, Haydock hurdle races Saturday
(12) 146<133 ENJOY D’ALLEN National Trial, Punchestown, Sunday
(UR) 148<146 in 2022
(15) 147<135 MINELLA TRUMP (17) 146>152 AIN’T THAT A SHAME
(PU) 155>161 COKO BEACH National Trial, Punchestown, Sunday
8TH 150>155 in 2022
(PU) 143<138 DUNBOYNE National Trial, Punchestown, Sunday
(PU) 160>161 CAPODANNO Ryanair Chase, Cheltenham
(UR) 159<153 DELTA WORK Cheltenham Cross-Country
3RD 160<159 in 2022
(UR) 149<142 DIOL KER National Trial, Punchestown, Sunday
(UR) 166<163 GALVIN Cheltenham Cross-Country
(UR) 155<150 LONGHOUSE POET
6TH 155=155 in 2022
(UR) 145<147 MR INCREDIBLE
155 MAHLER MISSION and 147 MONBEG GENIUS, second and third in the Newbury Gold Cup in December, will go to the National fresh, as will Longhouse Poet and Mr Incredible.
LATCH IS OFF THE HOOK
⭕ 3.20 Fontwell The Sussex card got the green light following a morning inspection but the going will be heavy with further rain about.
I’ve scoured the card for mudlarks and think He’s A Latchico fits the bill here for local trainer Gary Moore.
Whilst it was good ground when he won over course and distance last May, he does have solid form on heavy including two starts ago at Sandown when runner-up to Classic Anthem – only tiring in the closing stages up the tough Esher hill.
This looks an easier assignment and he is taken to see off the challenge of chief Betdaq Betting Exchange rival Torneo who is another soft ground specialist who starts off life in handicap company off a mark of 109.
It’s never easy starting handicap races on the back of a 26 length win but this is the case with the Jamie Snowdon trained runner who made all to romp home at Wetherby despite a couple of errors along the way.
As impressive win no doubt but on the negative side the race did fall apart a bit and the handicap mark is tough enough.
MORE FOR MOORE
⭕ 4.55 Fontwell Gary Moore can strike again here – this time with Time To Dazzle who showed his best form to date on handicap debut at Uttoxeter (heavy ground too) when runner-up to Present Fair.
Caoilin Quinn is aboard today and the form represented a big improvement on his first three races – all at Newbury at a relatively higher class than this.
The handicapper has nudged him up a pound but I think he is remarkably well handicapped in any case given the handicapper has had very little to work on.
He looks the type that could run up a sequence for his in form trainer (now 6 winners from his last 25 runners) and gets the the Wednesday nap vote.
CHIPS ARE DOWN
⭕ 7.00 Kempton Another marathon nine race card at Kempton the highlight being this class 2 handicap.
Batai Dubai is solid at the top of the Betdaq market after stepping up in class to this level and shaping well at Newcastle last time out.
Batai Dubai is closely matched with Fivethousandtoone on that form but is half the price of that challenger which doesn’t really add up and I have to play the value line.
Chipstead might be a danger to both. The only course and distance winner in the field, he never ran his race over five furlongs at Lingfield last time out but will be better suited by this step up to six.
DAQMAN’S BETS
3.20 Fontwell (win 10)
BET 5.8pts win HE’S A LATCHICO
4.55 Fontwell (win 10, nap)
BET 5.9pts win TIME TO DAZZLE
7.00 Kempton (both win 10)
BET 2.8pts win CHIPSTEAD
BET 2.7pts win FIVETHOUSANDTOONE
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