THE ‘ABSOLUTE STEAL’ CHRISTMAS BOX WINS 22 LENGTHS: It was Christmas come early. It was an absolute steal. That’s how Daqman described offers of 6.4 down to 3.9 on BETDAQ yesterday about the runaway 22-lengths Cheltenham winner, Highland Lodge, 2-1 at SP. He himself had a bad day but it was still a Saturday to celebrate.
61 POINTS PROFIT OVER THREE WINNING DAYS: After winning 61 points over the previous three days, Daqman was on ‘the wrong ones.’ But, as he explains today, you can’t lose in the long run, if you are betting in the punter-friendly BETDAQ orange.
It was a rare bad Saturday for me yesterday but another amazing day for BETDAQ. As my ‘Daq Value’ tag on them showed, every race I bet in was as near to a round book as you’ll get, where money in and money out were almost the same, making up a level playing-field for punters, or nearly so.
This included the 101 total percentage for the Lingfield race won by Court In Motion, which the bookies contrived to overround to 109% at SP. All my Cheltenham bets were in Betdaq total offers of 110% or less, yet the bookies had one of those races add up to 120% SP.
But I couldn’t pass on to you the really staggering offer of the day in the orange, the 6.4 I took over my cornflakes about 2-1 winner, Highland Lodge: that was 6.4, though one of the two others at the front of the market – Court In Motion, the very same – had his first running option elsewhere, in that Lingfield race.
It happened before I went into print but, even when Court In Motion made the definitive switch, Highland Lodge – one of my horses to follow – was on offer at 3.9, so that much I can claim. That he won 22 lengths is now history.
After nearly a month now in this column of hammering home the virtues of getting on early in these fabulous BETDAQ breakfast ‘books’, I sincerely hope you are among those who took the 3.9, if not the 6.4, and that you are checking out BETDAQ value on a daily basis.
Even the 2-1 SP, Highland Lodge was fair do’s in a seeming two-horse race; it was 8-1 bar the two (the 8-1 shot was beaten 98 lengths).
In any competition, your thousands of eyes scanning the BETDAQ orange will beat my old pair of ‘bins’ as I try to track down the layers’ mistakes.
But you only have to check out the total percentage of offers marked clearly at the top of the ‘Back’ list – coloured orange – which settles down after the earliest flurries and then fluctuates during the day as the offers change.
If you saw that one of Tesco, Sainsbury or Morrisons was offering the equivalent discount over the others on nearly EVERY basket EVERY day on the SAME product, you’d be round there – or the missus would – like a shot. Why pay more, as the ads might ask?
Your betting must be like shopping if you are to win money. In the old days, the punter who was wise to this, had to have accounts with a myriad of bookmakers (choosing in many different shop windows, in effect), so that he could make up his own book to a reasonable percentage, grabbing one price here, another there to get an edge, or at least fair play.
Now, with the sweep of the cursor, and the click of the mouse, every race every day is available in one window at a fair deal, clearly stated. The shopping is delivered to your door at prices you can afford.
NAP: The best racing by a long way today is in Ireland at Navan, where Simenon (12.55) should restore his reputation in the Tara Hurdle, unless the ground dries out sufficiently for Maller Tree, and Don Cossack (1.25) should further boost his in the Grade-1 novice.
OUTSIDER: Local Hereford trainer Tom Symonds, the former James Fanshawe assistant, who won with Alpha Way (2.10) at the corresponding meeting last year, goes for back-to-back wins. Can Trojan Sun, 14.5 on BETDAQ, win Symonds a yacht this afternoon?
DAQMAN’S BETS
BET 11pts win (nap) SIMENON and 3.4pts win (stakes saver) MALLER TREE (12.55 Navan)
BET 1.3pts win and place TROJAN SUN (2.10 Hereford)
BET 2.3pts win LOVE OF TARA (2.40 Hereford)
DAQ MULTIPLES: 3 x 3pts win double and 1pt win treble EVERAARD (12.50 Musselburgh), SIMENON (12.55 Navan) and DON COSSACK (1.25 Navan).
* Daqman’s bets are staked to win 20 points, so you know the offer he took (20 divided by the stake). This does not apply to Daq Multiples.
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