14.0 LINCOLNSHIRE WINNER: 147 POINTS PROFIT: Daqman landed four winning bets for the second day running yesterday including both Lincoln handicaps and back-to-back naps for a huge weekend profit of 147 points. His winners included a fantastic 14.0 on BETDAQ (SP 6-1) about the Irish Lincolnshire winner at Naas yesterday.
Sunday
WON 6-1 ON THE GO AGAIN (Irish Lincolnshire, 14.0 on BETDAQ)
WON 7-2 MALAYA (nap)
WON 7-2 RATHLIN ROSE
2ND 9-2 BEAU BAY (win and place, 6.8 BETDAQ)
Saturday
WON 8-1 ROKSANA (NH Mares’ Final)
WON 5-1 ADDEYBB (Lincoln Handicap winner in three)
WON 10-11 ZABEEL PRINCE (nap, Doncaster Mile)
WON 11-8 BALLYMOY
THREE QUICK HITS: 10 POINTS UP ON PRICEWISE: The weekend took Daqman to a 3-0 lead over Pricewise in their value challenge for the new Flat season. He is + 4 to a level stake at SP against a -6 Pricewise loss, so the gap is already 10 points.
CUE CARD NEWS FLASH: It was announced this morning that Cue Card’s final race will be the Oaksey Chase at Sandown on the final day of the Jumps, April 28.
FORM BEHIND THE HEADLINES
Daqman is the form king. Now he’s going to reveal in an ABC guide this week some of the ways he reads the form and finds winners others wish they had.
He’s the man who makes the headlines. Just look at these two for yesterday’s nap and Saturday’s NH Mare’s Novices Final winers:
ROK SOLID FORM IN THE FINAL (Roksana WON 8-1)
FORM ALL ADDS UP TO MALAYA (Malaya WON 7-2)
Starting tomorrow, there will be articles all week about the form and the special way Daqman wins from a staking plan and from special attention to the class of races. Don’t miss it.
GROUND FAVOURS SPADER
Novices’ handicaps and maiden hurdles. That’s what you can expect as the thin slice of class between the chunky bread and butter of Cheltenham and Aintree.
The Lincoln weekend at Doncaster and Naas was the usual false start to the Flat. But, with Easter a moveable feast, they simply don’t know what to do about it.
I shall be telling you in my articles this week how an understanding of class is vital for a strong hand against the layer. You won’t get class in that thin slice until the AW finals on Friday this week. But I have to earn my bread and butter by analysing everything in between.
3.15 Market Rasen Fergus Gregory, who has a strike rate of 4-7 (57%) at Market Rasen, is a valuable 7lb claimer who could get 6.0 BETDAQ offer The Blue Bomber home, after a good run for a lady rider trying to tackle an Irish gamble landed at Huntingdon 12 days ago. Has run well on good ground.
But also favoured by the change of going at Rasen is 10.0 shot Spader, 2016 Springtime winner at Navan for Ger Lyons and a cracking second at Kempton for Dan Skelton in May last year.
3.35 Huntingdon This is the best-quality race at Huntingdon. But which is the best quality horse?
Gary Moore (11023 excluding bumpers) is in decent form with low-grade stuff, and Maqisard’s best form in France was on better ground like today’s.
The ground will also suit Alcock And Brown if Dan Skelton has him right for his second comeback since 2016.
If Nicky Henderson has been able to hold rare-runner Royal Ruby together since his second in a Plumpton maiden a month back, he should go close: 5.1 on BETDAQ.
Wind Place Or Sho posted some good efforts before heavy ground bogged him down at Leicester on the last day, and a win and placed looks ideal at 9.2.
MONEY SAYS EASTER EGBERT
3.55 Taunton I’ll try an outsider here in a desperate race. David Pipe hasn’t had one out of a place this last week (12231) and did a grand job keeping Rathlin Rose at peak after his Sandown military escapades.
He’s sure to break that run today with three entered in this one race just down the road at Taunton, unless he can land the 1-2-3.
Delface won twice last Spring over, once in Ireland for Elizabeth Doyle before moving to Somerset, who has run him over further until today’s drop back to the minimum.
Though Tom Scydamore is on Tobacco Road (worry about the ground), Delface’s jockey, Michael Heard is Pipe’s winningmost rider at Taunton and Delface is down 18lb since November, including the rider’s allowance. Trading early at 22.0.
Placed on today’s course twice recently, Flight To Milan is improving and is a big offer at 10.5 for his handicap bow.
Both The Missus, not seen for 682 days, and Cap Du Nord, who’s had a winter break to avoid the mud, could bounce back.
If money talks, Sir Egbert wins. He was backed from 8.5 in to 4.5 this morning but is another maiden, one who pulls too hard or could be involved in the finish.
4.30 Taunton (Somerset Chase) Pipe won this last year and yet another maiden, his grey Its Obvious, gets a turnaround in the weights with Team Tizzard’s Muffins For Tea on their first and third here over nearly three-quarters of a mile shorter last month.
Both are stepped up in trip here but it’s Muffins who has the stamina on his dam’s side to suggest this is within his compass.
Richard Johnson takes the ride on stablemate Theatrical Star who’s been around. He hasn’t won since 2014 but ran second in this class over today’s CD a fortnight back.
Court Frontier (first-time tongue-tie) is a Spring horse who has already won a marathon, so looks the danger to Muffins (3.95 on BETDAQ)
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked to win 20)
3.15 Market Rasen
BET 4pts win THE BLUE BOMBER
BET 2pts win and place SPADER
3.35 Huntingdon
BET 2.5pts win WIND PLACE AND SHO
3.55 Taunton
BET 2pts win and place FLIGHT TO MILAN
BET 1pt win and place DELFACE
4.30 Taunton
BET 6.25pts win (nap) MUFFINS FOR TEA
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