6-1 NAP ON HEADLINE DAY FOR DAQMAN: Headline News (WON 6-1) was an appropriate winning nap for BETDAQ ace tipster Daqman at Leicester yesterday.
9-1 WINNER IS 44.0 IN RUNNING: He had opened his betting wallet with a terrific one-two in the very first race there with Good Authority (WON 9-1) and Konstantin (2nd 12-1), the winner touching 44.0 in running.
FIVE LAYS IN A ROW: And he completed his fabulous day with a last-race lay at Goodwood (Jabhaat 2nd 3-1 joint favourite), following Leitir Mor, another beaten favourite on Sunday.
41 POINTS PROFIT ON THE DAY: He’s had only one bad day in the last six, holding on to 77 points profit until Sunday. Then yesterday’s flurry was worth 41 points.
Here is your starter for 10. Which horse currently in training has fought and earned a place in all the major theatres of equine combat in Australia, England, Ireland, France and Hong Kong?
While connections of the cottonwool kids, stay-at-home Frankel and ivory-tower Camelot, are counting their stud fees, the gelding Red Cadeaux, at six years of age, is on the road again after eight consecutive world placings.
Counting only the Hong Kong Vase and the Melbourne Cup, he’s come within less than two lengths of £3m and he’s also been placed at Ascot, Epsom and The Curragh, and finished only a few lengths down at Deauville. He has a million in the saddlebag, having been in the frame 21 times in a short career of 30 races.
Now declared for another flight to Flemington, Red Cadeaux is not the only racing hero in this story deserving of acclaim: arise sir, Ed Dunlop, who has also handled Snow Fairy and Ouija Board with the nerve of a Ranulph Fiennes – exploring the horizons – and the aplomb of his father, John Dunlop.
I count the Dunlops – and the Baldings – as the quiet men of our sport, in the way of getting on with it, tackling the best, not always with the best tackle, but eminently reliable in getting the best out of them.
Those who enjoy the foregone conclusions of making the pilgrimage to Doncaster for Camelot’s St Leger procession or to Ascot for the Frankel walk-over in the Champion Stakes would do well to consider the heart given to the body of equine athletics by the likes of Red Cadeaux.
I shall be punting Andrew Balding today, with Tarara (2.50 Bath) looking good when the second favourite is the bridesmaid Bogsnog, on four seconds in a row.
Pindar (3.10 Hereford), in good form on the Flat, is thrown in over the sticks, with donkeys to beat, barring Bingo Des Mottes, who has to give 24lb. Give us the money, Barney!
Now I’m off to Kempton. Or rather, I’m sitting comfortably, looking for another starter for 10 (points). Two classifieds and a claimer mean most of the work has already been done by the official ratings (famous last words).
5.30 Kempton (Win Big With Betdaq Multiples Classified Stakes Div 1): Well, the snag with the ratings here is that they are more or less equal. And the race comes with a wallet warning: it’s for horses that have won only once in their lives. Or, in seven cases out of 11 here, haven’t won at all!
That recommends the three-year-olds, since they – or at least one of them – must be on the way up. Which one? That’s the problem.
On stable form you couldn’t fancy Fauran or Roman Senate, though one is the most lightly raced of them all in this and the other came to hand with a second last time out.
As a Marju, Star Kingdom loved the heavy ground at Hamilton but today’s Polytrack is a different ball game. Raspberry Fizz is a long-time loser, sometimes at the lowest level, and Neige d’Antan looks set to be placed again with the chance of winning because dropped in grade, but her 3.05 offers this morning make her a mean woman.
So it is that I’m taking the steady improver, Hard Road. Chris Wall is on fire right now with a 50% strike rate and, at 10.0 the win, and three place chances at near on 2-1 or better, small stakes appeal, each way.
6.00 Kempton (Win Big With Betdaq Multiples Classified Stakes Div 2): Only Mayan Flight has scored on Polytrack. Miss Boops hasn’t won since her debut, always a bad sign, but Navajo Charm left them standing in a Goodwood seller.
All the rest are maidens, with Chez Vrony and Super Smile currently rated 10lb and 16lb behind the ‘form horses’ such as they are: Lyrical Gangster looks one paced (correct that to ‘slow’); Maccabees has struggled in a seller; The Cornish Cowboy has the longest losing run of them all.
Phase Shift has place chances but, because of the close proximity of Onertother to Mayan Flight at Chepstow, I would go with Navajo Charm if he wasn’t so short. I can’t take less than 3-1 in a race like this.
6.30 Kempton (Back Or Lay At betdaq.com Nursery): There’s a trainer’s tip for this one, in that Ollie Pears is sending Confidential Creek down from North Yorkshire for his handicap debut, nicely installed in 2.
There are three reasons (only three?) why you wouldn’t want Snow Angel: trainer John Hills is on the cold list; he’s had 50 losers in a row at Kempton; and the filly has a poor draw.
Colourist gets left behind unless the mud is flying; Hardy Blue and Napinda are only platers; while Modern Lady has her quirks (‘taken early to post’ and ‘hung right throughout’, it says for different races in the Good Book).
We are still left at the front of the market with We Are City, Dawn Catcher and Blazing Knight, all with decent chances. We Are City has been best so far on the easier Wolver surface and Blazing Knight is being ‘given away’ in offers as I write, so I’ll take the consistent Dawn Catcher as the danger to Confidential Creek.
7.00 Kempton (Betdaq Mobile Apps Classified Claiming Stakes): The ratings say Pravda Street but he’d surely be better off in a low-grade handicap (he’s entered for one at the end of the month), down 17lb from his mark in the Spring after aiming too high in class-2 and class-3.
Katmai River is also back to his winning handicap mark. Performing Rocket moves up to a mile here but takes a keen hold and his sole success was over 6f.
Officer In Command has won a claimer but that was in 2010, although he did take a seller in July. But my choice is made from Saucy Buck, Spinning Ridge, Zaheeb and Zip Lock, who have all done well at Kempton.
On trainer form, it has to be between Spinning Ridge and Zip Lock but ‘Zip’ has been locked away since May (must have had some problem) and I’ll take Ron Harris to continue his excellent run, via 6.6 BETDAQ offer Spinning Ridge. Ron has a 50% record in claimers at Kempton.
7.30 Kempton (Betdaq Casino Games Handicap): Alkadi, Cape Joy, Confirmed and Kung Hei Fat Choy are all front-runners so something’s got to give.
Dubai Sunshine and Grey Seal have done best on slower surfaces at Southwell and Wolver, and the bridesmaid Engrossing stops quickly once asked to take a race: he’s been eight times in the frame without winning.
It leads me to have my pound on Red Bay, much too big at 21.0 on BETDAQ as I write, having had only one real race (lost shoe and hampered last time out) since winning here at Kempton last backend and now back to that winning mark.
DAQMAN’S BETS
BET 5.7pts win (nap) PINDAR (3.10 Hereford)
BET 2.2pts win and place HARD ROAD (5.30 Kempton)
BET 3.3pts win CONFIDENTIAL CREEK and 0.75pts stakes saver DAWN CATCHER (6.30 Kempton)
BET 3.5pts win SPINNING RIDGE (7.00 Kempton)
BET 1pt win and place RED BAY (7.30 Kempton)
DAQ MULTIPLES: 3 x 2pt win doubles and 1pt win treble Tarara (2.50 Bath), Pindar (3.10 Hereford) and Spinning Ridge (7.00 Kempton)
* Daqman’s win bets are staked to win 20 points (except Daq Multiples), so divide 20 by his stake to arrive at the offer taken at the time of making the selection.
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