60 UP AND SUPERNAP FROM PRINCE OF TIPSTERS: Daqman is a mile in front of other tipsters, as he showed yesterday with three winning bets from three selections, including a supernap, all at Chelmsford last night, all adding up to 60 points profit:
WON 7-2 SUMMERGHAND
WON 10-3 EXTRA MILE
WON 11-10 POET’S PRINCE (supernap)
TODAY’S BEST BET IS BIGGER THAN A 6-1 CHANCE: Today Daqman plays up his winnings and goes that extra mile for a nap on offer at between 7.0 and 7.4 in the BETDAQ orange this morning. First he checks out a Topham Trophy plunge for next week’s Aintree Grand National meeting.
PUNTERS BOND PROMPTS PLUNGE
Licensed to kill O O Seven? There are some among the Seven Barrows punters would ‘take that’. But there are many more who are keeping the faith, despite being out of pocket since his younger days.
Race after race, Nicky Henderson’s handsome eight-year-old is punted for the big event, only to fall short, the nearly horse of the season (and last)!
Now O O Seven is the plunge for next Friday’s Topham Trophy on the eve of the Grand National and over 2m 5f of its fences, in from 16-1 and more to favourite, or jointly so, at 10-1 and 12-1.
It all starts three years ago. Just about everything that ran in the 2015 Cheltenham champion bumper became a talking horse and, in particular, the Press hyped Modus, Yanworth and Supasundae.
Just this week, the 10th and 11th home that day, General Principle and Bellshill, were involved in the finish of the Irish National; one of them won it; one of them was the ‘moral’ giving lumps of weight away (guess which one I was on)!
O O Seven was even further behind in the bumper, just 16th, but boosted the form that autumn-winter with three hurdles wins out of four.
Jumping erratically in the RSA when next seen at a Cheltenham festival, he was found to take his fences more fluently over the unique Grand National course.
He was 2-4 at the chasing game by then and, taking the lead late on, was only just run-out of it by the mighty long run-in at Liverpool. The race? Last year’s Topham Trophy, when he was only seven.
The O O Seven punters club then sprang into action, steaming him into single figures for two out of three big races, in which he was third, fourth and fifth, the typical form of a nearly horse.
Next Friday 13th is his day of all days. Redemption or ruin, back for the Topham, already gambled on by his faithful army, and the early bird for the race with a telephone tipster.
Trainer Henderson declares him ‘a gorgeous horse, and is hoping that the Grand National fences will reveal that the morning-glory look about his big-race form is just a disguise for this, his true potential.
STATS ARE UPBEAT ABOUT TEMPO
4.15 Fontwell In search of a decent-priced nap before we settle down to next week’s big races at Aintree, I found a good placement by David Pipe.
There are some stats you can’t quite believe, and here we have a race which is invariably won by a five-year-old.
I immediately thought: oh yeh; I’m sure past races will have been full of five-year-olds; so no wonder they won it!
But, when I looked back three years at the results and found only five of that age had run in all of that time and they had taken the pot every time..
Well, whatever the form dictates, we had to have something on Great Tempo, as lone representative of the 100% stats.
Then I realised that he is not only the sole five-year-old, but the race is notable for some ancient animals right up to age 14.
Offered at 7.0 or more in the BETDAQ orange early mouse, Great Tempo loves heavy ground and was a good third at Chepstow two weeks back (Norse Legend just behind), his first race since before Christmas.
Deebaj has never won over the sticks, and Hit The Highway has been expensive to follow for more than two years now.
Robinsson’s best form is all on top of the ground or with less ease (good to soft), while Present Times and Camron de Chaillac have to defy weight rises for success in the autumn.
7.00 Dundalk While Press tipsters highlight the Andesh second last summer to recent UAE Derby winner, Mendelssohn, they fail to connect with another recent race.
War Hero, seen in the market as the main rival to Andesh, was trounced by Adaliya from the Andesh stable.
In fact, Mick Halford, who trains both, has already had two winners for the Aga Khan this year, while Dermot Weld is making another slow start for his highness. Get them ready for Galway this year, Dermot, please!
7.10 Chelmsford Fire Fighting is not the force he was and has been dropped 16lb since a year ago as now.
And the last time he ran as low as class 3 was when winning over today’s Chelmsford CD some 30 races ago in October, 2015.
But Oasis Charm has won only his maiden, always a bad sign, albeit first-time cheekpieces almost gave him win number two way back in July, the last time we saw him. He looked cramped at around even money while Fire Fighting was 4.7.
The handicapper thinks that Maratha has improved 6lb from four races this year, a win and two seconds among them. So no great shakes.
Mutamaded was a surprise winner (50-1 at Ripon in August) and a not-such-a-surprise flop (12-1 to follow up) here at Chelmsford in September.
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked to win 20 points, except the nap)
4.15 Fontwell (to win 30)
BET 5pts win (nap) GREAT TEMPO
7.00 Dundalk
BET 11pts win ARDESH
7.10 Chelmsford
BET 5.5pts win FIRE FIGHTING
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