5-1 NAP THE FIFTH IN A WEEK: Daqman hit a Six yesterday for a sensational seven-day score of 11 winners. Six And Out (WON 5-1) gave him two strikes in three Sunday races and his fifth winning nap in a week. He’s had:
★ Saturday-Sunday profit 81.80 after 55.95 Monday to Wednesday
★ Five winning naps in seven days, two of them supernaps
★ 100-30 win of 66 points for Fortune Cookies (update tomorrow)
Winning naps this week
WON 5-1 SIX AND OUT (Sunday nap) 6.8 BETDAQ
WON 10-3 SOSIE (Saturday supernap and Fortune Cookie)
WON 10-11 PORTA FORTUNA (Friday supernap)
WON 2-1 ROOM SERVICE (Tuesday nap)
WON 6-4 DASHINWHITESARGENT (Monday nap)
Winning outsiders
WON 15-2 ENFJAAR (Saturday)
WON 5-1 ROBUSTO (bull’s-eye bet Wednesday) 8.4 BETDAQ
WON 12-1 GRATEFUL (Wednesday)
Other winners
WON 11-10 ARABIE (Sunday)
WON 11-10 WHISTLEJACKET (Thursday)
WON 11-8 GARDEN OASIS (Monday)
TOP RIDERS GIVE YOU AN EDGE
THAT was the week that was! Like Wimbledon, racing serves up aces only with constant hard work; like the Euro Final, planning and endurance gives you that quick-thinking snap shot at goal you hoped was waiting for you.
Both events were a turning point for names we don’t yet know really well. Those riding the wave of fortune in racing are:
Oisin Murphy He’s chased away his demons and leads the jockey’s table in England with 118 winners at 22%; total earnings £4m.
For our punting purposes, he is particularly good with older horses (level-stakes profit 38 points); doing his homework, taking advice and succeeding without deliberate reflection on his own talents.
He no longer sits back and admires himself; no longer like some you know, waving their stick and posing for photographers as he crosses the line.
Rossa Ryan While he was quietly showing his flare, the steady hands of Ryan Moore, William Buick and Tom Marquand were winning races.
This year he is dramatically prolific, more the horseman, more stability as he takes every opportunity with Ralph Beckett; 92 winners for him this season for a prizemoney haul of £2.5m.
Billy Loughnane Some think of ‘the choirboy’, Walter Swinburn, some recall Lester Piggott.
His riding this year and his joining top agent Tony Hind, who steered nine title winners, including Ryan Moore, guarantee a champion future.
Loughnane, Murphy, Ryan have been added gradually to my pick of the star names that help me make my final selection.
What they bring to the occasion is an algorithm that has been reckoned worth plus 5lb on a horse’s rating, the difference between winning and losing.
In big handicaps now, the top dozen horses may be split by only about 5lb, so you need this edge of jockey ability.
TOMORROW: Fortune Cookie horses to follow. Next week: who are the super-reliable trainers who can give you an edge?
DRAGON HAS SIEGEN TO BEAT
⭕ 5.15 Windsor After Ralph Beckett and Richard Hannon, Rossa Ryan’s next winningmost trainer is Clive Cox, who rates him particularly for handling two-year-olds.
A feature at this time of year is nursery handicaps for juveniles, in which the Hannon team do well.
But Cox has booked Rossa Ryan for Doncaster scorer The Dragon King, who gets 6lb from the Hannon winner, Siegen.
Gimcrack-entry Siegen’s success at Sandown looked good but the favourite he beat into second, Rajetariat, had been placed twice before without winning
Rajetariat has now been losing favourite twice, again failing to break his maiden the last day, weakening in that notoriously tough final furlong at Beverley.
Blinky won well at Leicester, prompting a tilt at the Norfolk Stakes; not disgraced though ninth, and a well-known system at this time of year is to follow Ascot losers.
But I fancy firm-ground-lover The Dragon King, who literally has top two-year-old racing in his blood: his dam’s sire was Dutch Art, winner of the Morny and the Middle Park.
Betdaq Betting Exchange The market found it hard to choose this morning between 3.7 Siegen and 3.8 The Dragon King
MILLMAN-MURPHY ON FIFTY
⭕ 7.20 Windsor Oisin Murphy is looking for his 50th winner for Rod Millman, who saddles Crazy Luck, whom he knows well.
They then try to win again with Fast Steps, a Millman-Murphy scorer for me at Newbury 11 days back (8.20 race at BETDAQ 4.7).
Murphy on Crazy Luck will be hoping to make up for a neck defeat here at Windsor in May when the mare was rated 3lb higher. Rod Millman hit form with 3-7 up to Friday.
But this is one of those handicaps, more common than not these days, where there is just a few pounds between a bunch at the top. In fact, there are five between 9st 13lb and 10st 3lb here!
Low numbers in the draw are a bonus and Mezzo Soprano is already a class act, after completing a hat-trick in the autumn.
He didn’t like the soft ground at Thirsk on his return and his head went up, though he still finished half-a-length runner-up, giving 4lb to the winner, who made it two out of three over 7f.
Mezzo Soprano, who is with the in–form Crisfords, returns to 6f tonight at 2.47 on BETDAQ this morning. Crazy Luck was 18.5 when I checked the market.
DAQMAN’S BETS
5.15 Windsor (each to win 15)
BET 5pts win SIEGEN
BET 5pts win THE DRAGON KING
7.20 Windsor (win 20, win 12 nap)
BET 1pt win and place CRAZY LUCK
BET 8pts win MEZZO SOPRANO
8.20 Windsor (win 12)
BET 3pts win FAST STEPS
What are points? Points facilitate a staking plan, which is the secret to creating profit. One point is whatever you choose: a pound, a euro, or whatever ….
Start with a bank and decide how much you can afford to lose over a period of time, and determine the size of your bets accordingly. Daqman makes this variation every day.
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