FAB 4-1 WINNER MAKES IT FOUR NAPS OUT OF FIVE! Daqman delivered big time yesterday with a colossal 50 points profit including his fourth winning nap from the last five with Dank (WON 4-1), a BETDAQ Gold Value bet. His naps sequence is:
WON 9-2 FENCING (Wednesday)
WON 9-4 MONT RAS (Thursday)
2nd 100-30 KING OF THE DANES (Friday)
WON 6-4 DUKE OF FIRENZE (Saturday)
WON 4-1 DANK (Sunday)
DOUBLE WHAMMY WITH FIRST BANKER LAY: The Dank race was Gold Value on BETDAQ when Daqman opposed the favourite, Shirocco Star, as a ‘classic lay’ in what he described as an ‘incredible 101%’ list of offers. Shirocco Star was only fifth at 5-2 favourite, his first Banker Lay.
5-1 WINNER WITH THE OLD ONE-TWO: He also named the one-two in the 6f sprint, dutching Hamza (WON 5-1) and Gabriel’s Lad (2nd 5-1) to complete a great day.
Have you seen the Derby and Oaks winners? Dawn Approach or Battle Of Marengo? Judge The Judge or Moth? Well, hold your horses until after this sequence of top trials over the next two weeks:
Wednesday: Cheshire Oaks at Chester; Thursday: Chester Vase; Friday: the Dee Stakes at Chester; Sunday: Leopardstown Derby Trial; Thursday week: the Dante Stakes at York.
Meanwhile, here are my ABC Bank Holiday spots on a weak day’s racing, with Ireland stealing the headlines at The Curragh on the return of Camelot.
BATH Sharp And Smart (3.45) did me a favour when landing a gamble on Thursday and should follow up here, hub of my Bank Holiday yankee in a Betdaq Value race (i.e. one in which the offers add up to a total probability of less than 110%).
He’s a keep-it-going nap for my sequence until some more decent bets come along, like the 9-2 and 4-1 scorers. Watch this space!
BEVERLEY A punter-friendly 105% list of offers for the 3.25, in which Saint Thomas tries for his fourth course win, with the ground in his favour.
Saint Thomas has never won in this grade but only Classic Punch (now 10 years old) and Tartan Gigha – usually needs another run back – have done so, and they don’t appeal for the reasons given.
Lion Beacon (4.30) raids from Sussex, with every chance that things are in his favour here: Mad Jazz prefers cut in the ground and I can’t fancy Ofcoursewecan or Good Speech, granted a fair pace.
Though both are recent winners on a sound surface, their races were run in very slow time, both getting all their own way at a steady pace from the front.
THE CURRAGH Every trainer in the Athasi Stakes (4.50) has had a winner in the last three or four days, Edward Lynam (Sole Power) and Jim Bolger (Dawn Approach) having stepped over the water and nabbed two of the week’s biggest prizes at Newmarket.
Lynam’s Irish 1,000 Guineas hope, Viztoria, beat the fifth in the Newmarket version, Snow Queen, when winning at The Curragh on heavy in September and ran second in the Maisons Criterium.
Three-year-olds have beaten the older horses in this six times out of 10 but Ralph Beckett’s 2012 Fred Darling winner, Moonstone Magic, returns as a filly who goes well fresh, a year to the day after her flop in the Newmarket 1,000 Guineas.
Caprella is acey-deucey first time, with a win and a second in previous seasons, and her Mimosa Stakes second gives her a chance.
In the belief that Viztoria will not be unduly punished on her way to the Curragh 1,000, I shall take Moonstone Magic to make a winning return.
KEMPTON There were three Betdaq Value races here, all below 110% this morning, the first two and the 4.20.
Jamie Spencer stops off for the one ride – Meritocracy (2.15) – on his way to Windsor but you face the usual dilemma with two-year-olds: will Meritocracy’s experience prevail or will one of the four once-raced animals improve past him?
We have seen all the three-year-olds in the 4.20 this year and the debate this time is with the handicapper: can the five-lengths Doncaster winner, Disclaimer, shrug off an 11lb rise in a class-higher race?
The same applies to the 2.45 but Storm Moon is dropped two grades from a solid Newmarket reappearance, and could try to make all the running under William Buick, as he did for Joe Fanning last season..
I can’t buy the favourite, Angus Og, with the stable on the cold list (33 losers in the last month) and the likely danger Small Fury – holds Hot Secret – has gone up 3lb for a defeat.
Ryan Moore is four out of five riding for trainer Roger Teal and Charlotte Rosina (5.20) looks the ‘biz.’
WARWICK You’re ahead of the game before you bet in the opener (2.05), with the double bonus of a low overround and commission free on BETDAQ.
Master Of Song is massive 19.5 as a horse who has won at big odds after a break and is ridden by one of the most recent apprentice finds, Robert Tart.
WINDSOR There are two in the Cornetto Handicap (5.05) which are the (ice) cream of the meeting and could go on to better things. Sod’s Law they’re in the same race!
Open Water, a 4.8 offer as I write, is better than the bare form and ran some good races last season before going wrong at Royal Ascot.
He’s a first-time-out winner on his debut and a big threat to Mean It, who has performed well on the soft but is bred to enjoy today’s sound surface.
DAQMAN’S BETS
BET 1pt win and place MASTER OF SONG (2.05 Warwick)
BET 5.7pts win STORM MOON (2.45 Kempton)
BET 10pts win SAINT THOMAS (3.25 Beverley)
BET 8pts win LION BEACON (4.30 Beverley)
BET 7.8pts win MOONSTONE MAGIC (4.50 The Curragh)
BET 11pts win MEAN IT and 5pts win OPEN WATER (5.05 Windsor)
DAQ MULTIPLES BANK HOLIDAY YANKEE (1pt unit stake): Storm Moon (2.45 Kempton), Saint Thomas (3.25 Beverley), Sharp And Smart (nap, 3.45 Bath) and Charlotte Rosina (5.20 Kempton)
DAQMAN’S TARGETS: A sub-standard day, so back to staking to win 20 points, but needing two winners from the straight bets to finish in front, as we are having a flutter with a Bank Holiday yankee.
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