DAQMAN WISHING YOU A NAP-HAPPY NEW YEAR! After a grouse about small fields, Daqman goes to Musselburgh for the nap, where a front-runner will be suited by the tight track.
🔹 GET OWNERS TO ‘SAVE THE PLACES’
🔹 BE TON-UP NICHOLLS’ ACCOMPLICE
🔹 FRONT-RUNNER’S ROSIE OUTLOOK
🔸 ALL WINNERS ARE WITHIN DAQMAN’S SHOOTING RANGE: Follow the Daqman betting style as he aims at short shots and long-shots and tries to shoot down false favourites. They’re all back for the weekend at the start of a new year:
🔸 BULLS’-EYE BETS: Daqman targets outsiders with stakes to win 50 points. That’s his bull’s-eye bet, like Who’s In The Box (won 7-1 from 13.0 on BETDAQ in the Lincolnshire National on Wednesday).
🔸 PRICEWISE CHALLENGE: Bull’s-Eye bets feature largely in his value challenge to Pricewise. Current scores: Daqman 17, Pricewise 11 (see yesterday: Value Hunt In 1,000-Point Profit ).
🔸 SUPERNAPS AND NAP SEQUENCES: Naps won 6-10 from November 8-17. January has proved best for sequences in previous years, March for supernaps.
🔸 OPPOSE THE FAVOURITE: When Daqman recommends front-runners, like Rosie And Millie today, he gives you back-and-lay possibilities, and when he opposes hot favourites, as he did with Altior last week, he opens up lay options.
GET OWNERS TO ‘SAVE THE PLACES’
Nothing new there, then! Without Cheltenham, the New Year’s Day Chase at Tramore is the feature race on the first day of the year and, as happens so many times, particularly in the first half of the season, we find just a handful of runners, dominated by a star name.
There should never be a race of fewer than eight runners, and place or each-way betting should be as lively as the win market.
In the age of computers, trainers could be invited to a quick re-entry stage, if a field has been undersubscribed. It would not be too difficult to organise.
As it is, once the programme book is arranged, authorities do very little about the content of races.
Get terrestrial TV involved, with owners’ clubs stepping up to support late entry from a pool of horses local to each venue, and an award each season for those clubs which ‘save the place’. Come on ITV4.
The punters will love you for it, and those small-time owners are in it for the craic, and would be delighted to make a contribution.
ITV switches to Tramore today for the one race, concentrating on Exeter and Musselburgh, with three races each, so at least it’s a three-nation kick-off.
There’s also a meeting at Southwell. Knowing that turf abandonments are always likely, it could have had a New Year’s Day handicap of quality on Fibresand. Only two races have eight or more runners.
BE TON-UP NICHOLLS’ ACCOMPLICE
⭕ 1.20 Musselburgh Paul Nicholls and Bryony Frost stole the end-of-the-year headlines, with Paul just grabbing a 100 for the season at Warwick on New Year’s Eve, and Bryony scoring the biggest hit of any woman rider by taking the King George on Frodon.
Here they are in the frozen North today as accomplices for the first time in 2021, with two runners on the Edinburgh track.
Accomplice in this one has been on a learning curve in England, after winning four in France. Stepping back up in trip today, now that he’s settled better. This could be his breakthrough, and I took 5.7 this morning BETDAQ BETTING EXCHANGE.
Tom Lacey is on 14 consecutive losers and Sebastapol has to give weight all round, but down a couple of grades and well backed overnight. However, all his success – four wins, Flat and Jumps – has been on a sound surface.
Kaizer won at Carlisle after being dropped a few pounds but is back up in the weights for that.
Keith Dalgleish, 50 miles down the road, saddles winner-here-last-time Newtown Boy (fourth in this race last year) and I’m To Blame, off 315 days but a scorer twice after breaks.
FRONT-RUNNER’S ROSIE OUTLOOK
⭕ 1.55 Musselburgh Paul Nicholls saddles Miranda, class-2 winner at Ludlow for another in-form jockey, Mr Angus Chelada. That was a mares-only hurdle and she’s up another 7lb.
Raymond’s hat-trick was completed with back-to-back wins here at Musselburgh in November for a 24lb rise. This is two grades higher.
Rosie And Millie (at BETDAQ 4.7) could be hard to catch. Overhauled only by the classy Buzz at Ascot; then faded close home on heavy in a Listed handicap at Sandown.
⭕ 2.37 Tramore This is the Grade-3 chase I was talking about with dual Gold Cup winner, Al Boum Photo, making his return in a race he won last year by six lengths, giving 11lb to Acapella Bourgeois, who receives only 4lb today. Make him the hub of Daq Multiplies.
⭕ 3.05 Musselburgh Dan Skelton has found it difficult to find a slot for ex-Nicholls Roman De Senam, though he’s scored at this level at Newton Abbot.
The Nicholls runner here, Red Risk, has some welcome cut in the ground and the Chelada 7lb claim will help.
Cool Mix is back in trip after third the last day, trying top company in the (Listed) Rehearsal Chase at Newcastle.
Schiehallion Munro and Return Ticket were one-two in a novices’ handicap at Catterick in January, with the winner actually 2lb better off now.
DAQMAN’S BETS
1.20 Musselburgh (win 20)
BET 4.25pts win ACCOMPLICE
1.55 Musselburgh (win 20, nap)
BET 5.5pts win ROSIE AND MILLIE
DAQ MULTIPLES
3 x 3pt win doubles, 1pt treble
ACCOMPLICE 1.20 Musselburgh
ROSIE AND MILLIE 1.55 Musselburgh
AL BOUM PHOTO 2.37 Tramore
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