6-1 ‘HAT’ TRICK FOR DAQMAN: It was honours even between Daqman and Pricewise yesterday, when both included Pass The Hat (WON 6-1) in their bets on Ireland’s big race of the day, but there was more value for BETDAQ backers as Daqman made his selection at 9.4.
25 FEATURE-RACE RETURNS: Daqman is now leading Pricewise 25-9 since his challenge began. Says our man: ‘Generally, I’m not in good form – I even got Willie Mullins ‘beat’ yesterday – but I never seem to lose my big-race touch and I’m looking forward to Cheltenham and the National on BETDAQ.’
TODAY: BETDAQ YOUR SECRET WEAPON: Daqman couldn’t win without BETDAQ value. That value doesn’t diminish with the numbers involved. The exchanges remain to your dictate. Make offers you think are right and take offers you think are wrong.
TOMORROW: CHELTENHAM A WEEK EARLY: Check out BETDAQ betting ante-post, as Daqman goes through the Cheltenham stats, day by day, with race-by-race facts and figures, starting tomorrow when he analyses Festival Tuesday.
Tell your friends about the people’s exchange in time for Cheltenham. No need to keep it in the family: we are one big family where everyone’s a winner. It’s no secret: you set your own prices and create your own value.
No more searching through accounts with a myriad of bookmakers to find the best offer, only to discover that the advertised morning price didn’t last five minutes.
Price up the races for Cheltenham, make the offers you think are right, take the offers you think are wrong, and be twice lucky.
The orange-and-green of the Irish flag is raised by a legion of winners year on year at the festival and you can nail your colours to the orange of the BETDAQ betting offers and the green of the lays. Be up for the craic and win money with the winners.
It must be easy: even I can do it! In 2012, I had the big double of Gold Cup (WON 8-1 from 11.5 on BETDAQ) and Champion Hurdle (WON 11-1 from 17.0).
Notice I made 7.5 extra points profit (BETDAQ over SP), 26.5 points won instead of 17, and I’ve shown in my dueling with Pricewise recently that this is no fluke with 17 points extra from betting with BETDAQ between declaring my bets and SP.
Long term, as with this November-March duel, or short term, at the one festival meeting, you can stack up value as you go along, if you keep your Daq up!
My last year’s Cheltenham bets included a 25-1 winner, Holywell, and you will probably see him back at the Festival next week.
Best Cheltenham betting year of all for this column was 22 Festival wins in March, 2009, but the best long-term coup was an unbeaten sequence of lays through three consecutive festivals.
From 2008, through the 2009 festival and completing the 2010 meeting, I had 16 successful lays in a row. No losers (or rather, no winners). It’s all recorded in the Daqman Library.
You are allowed to win on BETDAQ, and you can do so with losers as well as winners. Keep your wallet topped up by spotting the lays.
I had another 10 lays in a row in September, 2010, so again, short term or long term, if you can get into the pattern of lays success, you can win money by backing losers!
From 2007 when I started this column until part-way through 2010, I landed 400 win lays from 524 bets (76% strike rate), netting 1,943 points profit. I built a bank for my betting, just by backing losers.
If ever the gamble was taken out of betting, it’s BETDAQ. You don’t even need a poker face. You play by laying your offers down in full view.
And, if you get it wrong, rejoin the play at any time during the day up to the ‘off’ and into the race itself. Recoup your early position. Trade and profit. Win when you lose.
CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL LATEST: ‘WORLD’ POWER
My colleague, Waggaman, got it right: Annie Power goes for the World Hurdle. Not the Mares Hurdle. Not the Champion Hurdle.
Willie Mullins can no doubt see the cracks in Big Buck’s but the decision also suggests that he believes Quevega can continue her domination of the Mares’ Hurdle.
Punters will hope that this announcement is the end of speculation. Paul Nicholls ‘revelation’ that Rocky Creek would go for the Gold Cup seemed to ‘cut the string’ on my Grand National kite.
But I see that Ladbrokes have removed Rocky Creek and Long Run from their Gold Cup market, and have the pair in their front eight for Aintree.
In the latest Ditcheat interview, Nicholls says ‘the best is yet to come’ from the big horse and that he has never been able to get him as fit as he’d like.
‘Rocky’ needs good ground and, reading between the lines, a Gold Cup run would be the making of him, with Aintree in mind. But why take him out of the Cheltenham market altogether?
Ladbrokes are reliable, as well as being in the know. For instance, unlike 14 bookmakers in the Oddschecker list, they have removed the Supreme Novice Hurdle favourite, Irving, from their County Hurdle market. It seems that 14 well-known firms just want to take your money!
TODAY’S RACING: FANOOS LOOKS READY FOR THIS
2.30 Southwell A welcome class 3, in which I’m betting that we’ll see Green Wizard bounce back after treatment for the breaking of blood-vessels. I took 6.6 on BETDAQ in a 106% orange this morning.
The drop back in trip will suit this front-runner, who may have most to fear from 8.2 offer Billy Cuckoo (holds Galway Jack on December form).
I’m hoping he they can disappoint the giant ‘Jack’, whose stable is in the trade paper’s ‘out of form’ list, and outpace the 12-year-old Dashing George, who also likes to go from the front.
Balzaccio hasn’t won a chase since 2011, and Arthur’s Pass wins only right-handed. That’s The Deal has been withdrawn.
3.20 Lingfield (Ladbrokes Handicap): Club House goes for his seventh Lingfield win, three of them in February.
Yet, claimed off, he will line up only 4lb higher than for the first of the February treble, and will receive weight from all bar the bottom horse.
Seek The Fair Land (that’s Ireland) has had to drop to a claimer for success this year and prefers 6f. Sulis Minerva (the Roman name for Bath) is also a 6f mare. Hillybilly Boy (nothing to sing about) last won a seller. Afkar is one paced (don’t ask me why he’s called Afkar).
But, though she is top weight and favourite this morning (4.3), Fanoos looks the value in a 108% list in the BETDAQ orange as I write.
She was a bit fresh after four months off, otherwise might have turned her neck defeat at Kempton recently into victory. As the form stands, she was the ‘moral’, giving 6lb to the winner, beaten a neck.
5.45 Kempton Lawney Hill (Royal Etiquette) and Michael Blanshard (Petersboden) are top of the Racing Post ‘hot trainers’ list.
Both saddle horses running into form, and the 7.8 and 6.0 respectively this morning suggests a ‘dutch’ against the morning favourite, Ladies Dancing, whose only Flat win was on her debut in 2009.
DAQMAN’S BETS (to win 20 points each)
BET 3.7pts win GREEN WIZARD and 2.7pts win BILLY CUCKOO (2.30 Southwell)
BET 6pts win (nap) FANOOS (3.20 Lingfield)
BET 4pts win PETERSBODEN and 3pts win ROYAL ETIQUETTE (5.45 Kempton)
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