9-4 NAP IS NUMBER 16 FOR DAQMAN: Leviathan (WON 9-4) was winning nap number 16 for the year for top tipster Daqman when it landed his 13-point best bet at Plumpton yesterday. There is another 13-pointer today (at the foot of the column).
12.0 CHAMPION HURDLE TIP FROM THE STABLE: Daqman completes his Cheltenham ante-post bets with the Gold Cup and Champion Hurdle, in which he goes along with stable fever for a 12.0 offer.
ALL DAQMAN’S ANTE-POST BETS AND 12 TO FOLLOW: Today he declares all his ante-post selections and marks his horses to follow down for festival races.
CHELTENHAM STATS NEXT WEEK: Look out next week when he ‘runs’ Cheltenham a week in advance, examining the stats and history behind each event to be run at the festival a week ahead.
I never thought I’d write this. But I’m taking a bit of the BETDAQ 12.0 Binocular for the Champion Hurdle, such are the excellent reports buzzing from Seven Barrows.
Trainer Nicky Henderson is a master with older horses (remember Caracciola) – he’s the Michael Stoute of jumps racing– and he is adamant that, at the age of nine, Binocular is as good as he’s ever been.
The 2010 winner would normally need to have improved considerably, but the favourite, Hurricane Fly, is also nine years old and Rock On Ruby isn’t getting any younger, defending his title at eight.
Ladbrokes stand alone in offering 8-1 Binocular for Cheltenham, which makes the 12.0 on BETDAQ look even tastier. It puts me in the game.
I keep banging on about Silviniaco Conti being sure to improve on good ground so, with fine weather forecast for the festival, I ought to put some money where my mouth is.
He’s only 4-1 (another stand alone with Ladbrokes) for the Gold Cup but as near as dammit 6-1 with BETDAQ (mostly 5.9).
Here, then, are my final nine ante-post horses for Cheltenham in race order, including our biggest money-spinner so far, Monksland, who is in from 11.0 to 6.4 for the World Hurdle, as I write.
Below the ante-post bets are the Daqman Dozen horses to follow, which I issued for the start of the New Year, including their Cheltenham targets.
NINE ANTE-POST HORSES FOR CHELTENHAM: The list is in race order, with the bet to offers taken at the time. Below the list are my Grand National bets.
WIN-30: 2.7pts win MELODIC RENDEZVOUS (Supreme Novice Hurdle) BETDAQ 12.0 taken
WIN-50: 3.1pts win CHATTERBOX (Supreme) BETDAQ 16.0 taken
WIN-30: 2.7pts win BINOCULAR (Champion Hurdle) BETDAQ 12.0 taken
WIN-50: 2.6pts win CHATTERBOX (Neptune Novice Hurdle) BETDAQ 20.0 taken
WIN-30: 2.6pts win RULE THE WORLD (Neptune) BETDAQ 12.5 taken
WIN-30: 1.7pts win MELODIC RENDEZVOUS (Neptune) BETDAQ 18.0 taken
WIN-30: 2pts win ROCKY CREEK (RSA) BETDAQ 16.0 taken
WIN-30: 2.1pts win BOG WARRIOR (World Hurdle) BETDAQ 16.0 taken
WIN-30: 3pts win MONKSLAND (World Hurdle) BETDAQ 11.0 taken
WIN-30: 2.7pts win CHAMPION COURT (Ryanair Chase) BETDAQ 12.0 taken
WIN-30: 0.3pts win RULE THE WORLD (Albert Bartlett) BETDAQ 64.0 taken
WIN-30: 6pts win SILVINIACO CONTI (Gold Cup) BETDAQ 6.0 taken
WIN-50: 3.3pts win SEABASS (Grand National) BETDAQ 16.0 taken
WIN-50: 2.2pts win CAPPA BLEU (Grand National) BETDAQ 23.0 taken
SPRING DOUBLE: 2 x 1pt win doubles Seabass and Cappa Bleu (Grand National) with Captain Bertie (Lincoln Handicap), all at 16-1 with Ladbrokes.
DAQMAN’S DOZEN JUMPS HORSES TO FOLLOW: Here are the Cheltenham engagements for my jumps horses to follow for 2013:
ARVIKA LIGEONNIERE (Arkle Trophy, Cheltenham) 9.2 on BETDAQ this morning
BOSTON BOB (RSA Chase, Cheltenham) 7.4 on BETDAQ this morning. Also engaged (favourite with some bookmakers) in the National Hunt Chase.
DYNASTE (RSA Chase, Cheltenham) 2.99 on BETDAQ this morning. Also engaged in the Jewson Novices’ Chase (favourite with one bookmaker)
EASTER DAY (won Saturday)
FLEMENSTAR (now doubtful for Cheltenham)
GEVREY CHAMBERTIN (in the first three in the markets for the Coral Cup and the Pertemps Final)
HIGHLAND LODGE (National Hunt Chase, Cheltenham)
MONKSLAND (World Hurdle – see bets list above)
SILVINIACO CONTI (Gold Cup – see bets list above)
SIR DES CHAMPS (Gold Cup, Cheltenham) 5.5 on BETDAQ this morning.
SPRINTER SACRE (Champion Chase, Cheltenham) 1.35 on BETDAQ this morning.
WHISPER (Neptune Novices’ Hurdle, Cheltenham) 170.0 on BETDAQ this morning. More likely to run in the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Hurdle, Cheltenham.
DAQMAN’S FLAT-2013 HORSES TO FOLLOW:
CAPTAIN BERTIE (Lincoln handicap, Doncaster) see ante-post bets above.
(Full list of Flat 2013 horses to follow will be published immediately after Cheltenham)
DAQMAN’S BETS TODAY
BET 1.1pts win and place COOLBEG, and 0.6pts win and place TEMPTING PARADISE (3.30 Leicester)
BET 9.3pts win SPIN AGAIN (3.40 Lingfield)
BET 8.6pts win ROMAN FLIGHT (3.50 Catterick)
BET 13pts win (nap) HOWARD’S LEGACY (4.00 Leicester)
BET 1.6pts win and place LAJIDAAL (5.00 Leicester)
* Daqman’s bets are staked to win 20 points each, so you know what BETDAQ offers he took by dividing 20 by each individual stake.
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