DAQMAN NAP WAS 8.4 ON BETDAQ: The BETDAQ market swung both ways for Daqman this morning. First he wanted a big price about one clearly capable of landing a coup (he got 3.35); then one that is ‘expected’ to win was easy to back at 8.4. ‘I’ll take that for the nap!’ says our man.
DON’T MISS THE SATURDAY MAN: Look out tomorrow, as Daqman, the Saturday man, brings back the Bull’s-Eye Bet, an attempt to win 50 points in one hit. His bankers are 4-4, and his early score with Pricewise in feature races is 1-1.
CATCH THE HENDERSON GRAVEY TRAIN
1.35 Ascot Harry Fry’s Thomas Brown caused a flutter in the Cheltenham markets when he won this last year but he finished only seventh in a Cheltenham Festival handicap.
Fry describes Hell’s Kitchen as a lovely prospect who jumps brilliantly, so he may go further than Thomas Brown.
Paul Nicholls reckons Qualando wants 3m so Sean Bowen will need to stretch him – and the other runners – if he is to be involved at the business end.
Brother Tedd looks exposed but Different Gravey won a hurdle 16 lengths in February before failing to keep up with Thistlecraft (as would 99.99% of the equine population).
Will make a cracking chaser, says Nicky Henderson, who is 9 out of 10 with beginners’-chase runners at Ascot. One for your Daq Multiples.
2.10 Ascot Oppose novice-hurdle winners with a penalty. That system goes out of the window here, or at least it has done four years in a row, so it could be Henderson again with Thomas Campbell. The horse he beat at Cheltenham on the last day has been a winner since.
Usually, if you back one Henderson, you have to back the other,when he runs two in the same race, but Argante would be an unusual winner of an introductory hurdle at age seven. Criq Rock won his bumper here.
WATCH THE CLOCK! IT COULD BE A COUP
2.45 Ascot When I buy the Racing Post, I dread seeing that someone among its 1,001 tipsters and writers has picked up on something that I’ve burnt the midnight oil winkling out of a recess in the form book.
It means two things: I’ve lost the price; and those who do not know me as a lone star think I’m loading my six-gun with a bullet from their arsenal. This is what I wrote last night:
Strangely, with Ffos Las just down the road from her stable, Venetia Williams has withdrawn all her Friday probables, except The Clock Leary in this 2.45 Winkworth Chase at Ascot, where she has a reputation for a big-odds winner.
The Clock Weary won his only race at Ascot 11 lengths and, with his claimer’s claim, is 9lb lower a year on, with nothing to show for himself since. That’s ideal for a horse who has been winner and place when fresh throughout his career so far.
Sadly, my supposed 20-1 outsider is 3.35 favourite in the BETDAQ orange this morning. No value left.
Strictly, on Newbury form in April at a similar weights difference, the eight-year-old has 55 lengths to find with Fox Appeal!
Thanks to an incredible early-mouse underround of 104% in the BETDAQ orange, I could back Fox Appeal at 4.9 with a stakes saver on The Clock Leary.
LAYERS ARE LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER
3.20 Ascot Lamb Or Cod – 8.4 offers on BETDAQ – is a glass horse who wins fresh; they have to, while much of the opposition is ‘having a run back’ and before any problem they have resurfaces.
Lamb or Cod is 11lb lower than in his top-novice year of 2014 and also needs to get going while the ground is relatively decent.
Ready Token is back to his winning trip but 18lb higher than when he scored at the beginning of the season. Minella Daddy won in first-time blinkers at Ffos Las but the race was nothing to write home about.
3.55 Ascot Cyrbname is a horse with a big future. That’s not me; that’s Paul Nicholls speaking, but he adds the rider that he’s also a tearaway and may need a race or two to settle.
At 4.3, Cyrname could be a trade horse as, equipped with first-time tongue-tie, he might well hare off in front and just about stay there.
There’s a Grade-2 winner in the race, Le Rocher, back after nearly three years off with injury. Bertimont is also back from a long absence, while Draytonian and Sea Wall are reappearing for the first time since the Spring.
But there’s another pacesetter in the race, Favorite Girl from a stable in form at 16.0 in the BETDAQ orange. I’ll have a pound, while I’m watching ‘the horse with a future,’ Cyrname. I can probably keep an eye on them together, up front.
DAQMAN’S BETS (each staked to win 20 points, unless stated)
BET 4pts win and place SHARP RESPONSE (2.00 Haydock)
BET 5pts win FOX APPEAL and 2.3pts win (stakes saver) THE CLOCK LEARY (2.45 Ascot)
BET (to win 30) 4pts win and place (nap) LAMB OR COD (3.20 Ascot)
BET 1.25pts win and place FAVORITE GIRL (3.55 Ascot)
DAQ MULTIPLES: 3 x 2pt win doubles and a 1pt win treble Different Gravey (1.35 Ascot), Thomas Campbell (2.10 Ascot) and Lamb Or Cod (3.20 Ascot)
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