Category: DAQMAN

CAN YORK GIVE US DERBY CLUES? York’s Musidora and Dante (Derby and Oaks) trials take on huge significance this week after a washout of English, Irish and French favourites at yesterday’s Longchamp Guineas meeting, when an electric storm intervened. Winners at 24-1 and 31-1 followed Newmarket Guineas winners at 28-1 and 16-1.

NAPS SEQUENCE FINISHES AT FIVE: Daqman’s bid for six naps in a row failed yesterday. What happened? ‘I started to bet against myself,’ said our man; ‘you pick one; then you find something to beat it!’ The value-challenge score was Daqman 0, Pricewise 0

NOW FIVE WINNING NAPS IN A ROW: A hat-trick of naps at Chester gave Daqman five winning best bets in a row with Passenger in the driving seat yesterday.

BRAVE RUN OF FOUR WINNING NAPS: Winner-a-day Daqman has turned his sequence into nap a day in Chester week! Four best bets in a row, none at odds on, though one a supernap.

FAIRY-TALE HAT-TRICK MARRED: Daqman had been celebrating a naps hat-trick with Forest Fairy in the Cheshire Oaks yesterday when his second Classic-trial winner of the day, Hidden Law, broke down after the line. ‘A tragedy when clearly on the path to the Derby with huge potential,’ says Daqman.

BACK-TO-BACK NAPS UP! Daqman has landed back to back naps this week, his third in five days, all odds against. Let’s have More of the same!

THE NAP IS BACK ON TRACK: Tip the bottle! After a quiet spell, Daqman’s nap is back on track with a 50% strike rate in the last few days:

IT’S A CLASSIC TRIAL FOR PUNTERS! Two Classic winners at the weekend and you still don’t know their names? You can be forgiven for that, and for wondering what all this means to the Derby and Oaks. Tomorrow Daqman checks out this week’s trials at Chester and Lingfield and next week looks at the York Dante meeting.

NEWMARKET FALL OF TROY: Winners at 33-1 (twice), 22-1, 18-1, 16-1 (twice), 14-1, 12-1 and 11-1 shook Saturday punters to the core but biggest shock was the demise of odds-on 2,000 Guineas favourite, City Of Troy, only 9th of 11. Was it a repeat of last year’s crash of stablemate Auguste Rodin, who also had only two behind him at the finish? Daqman searches for an answer.

DAQMAN’S NAP IS ON FIRE: Daqman has a passion for winners and his nap came back to form at Goodwood yesterday. Now he steps on the gas and goes for a real racing break with his best bet in the Thirsk Hunt Cup.

DAQMAN’S 1,000 GUINEAS ABC GUIDE: It was a three-way tie among the colts with all boxes ticked for Daqman’s ABC guide to Saturday’s 2,000 Guineas yesterday but today’s 1,000 Guineas has just one filly with the top credentials for Sunday’s Classic.