5-2 NAP AS DAQMAN NETS 69 POINTS PROFIT IN ONE DAY: Daqman was in devastating form yesterday with five winning bets including his nap, Countryman (WON 5-2), amassing 69 points profit MINIMUM – and that was just at SP not BETDAQ better odds.
16-1 WINNER AT LINGFIELD: He followed up Countryman on the same Lingfield card with Manazel (WON 16-1) and was also in top form at Exeter.
LANDS THE OLD ONE-TWO AND LAYS THE THIRD: Mr Mole (WON 6-4) won readily but he saved the best at Exeter until ‘the Bonus King’ race. It was Daqman who was bonus king, laying Gullinbursti (3rd 7-2) and backing first and second, Harry Topper (WON 11-4) and Rocky Creek.
John Gosden has opened the gate to more millions. The Newmarket-based leader of the trainers’ table on £3.6m – some £260,000 clear of Aidan O’Brien – now has Gatewood poised for the riches of the Melbourne Cup.
Gatewood this morning took the Geelong Cup which has been a stepping stone for the last two Flemington heros, Americain and Dunaden, who has just won another major trial, the Caulfield Cup, posting his intentions of back-to-back wins.
There was good news for another top English raider, Red Cadeaux, when Dunaden’s victory prompted a revision of the handicap, putting him on a weight-carrying-record mark, the equivalent of two lengths worse off with Red Cadeaux, who ran him to a nose last year.
Dunaden remained favourite but Gatewood was as short as 9-1 in a place on the Oddschecker list this morning while, at the same time, BETDAQ offers were 16.0. Total prizemoney for the race is A$6m. Sea Moon was announced a non-runner.
Gosden runs four at today’s Houghton meeting Newmarket, where the two-year-old maidens and conditions events laid false trails for punters last year, particularly with Diala (winner of the fillies’ 2.00 race) and Ellaal (who ran in the colts equivalent at 2.30), both failing to train on after being quoted for the Classics.
It was left to the nursery (5.20) to produce a Classic player, Main Sequence. But, though winning the Lingfield Derby Trial, he became a ‘nearly horse’, runner-up to Camelot in the Epsom Derby and also second in the Great Voltigueur.
Main Sequence had a ‘raced one, won one’ record before success here last year, but today’s nursery has only exposed animals, with three or more races on their CV.
However, all are stepping up to this 1m 1f trip for the first time so, in that sense, every one of them is unexposed, making for a tricky call. Quintiilian (4.1 on BETDAQ as I write) has been gelded since his good second on the July Course in August.
That leaves only one non-juvenile event, the mile fillies’ handicap (4.45), which has four dual winners in it. Won’t they be feeling the handicapper’s grip by now?
Firdaws, Fulney, Raheeba, Raasekha, Shena’s Dream and Sputnik Sweetheart are all front-runners, or pace chasers, so this could be a fast-run race.
Hippy Hippy Shake (8.0 on BETDAQ) drops back in trip and down in grade from a Listed, while No Poppy (6.2) has run at this level on the soft. Both have top jockeys booked, the freelance rivals Frankie Dettori and Kieren Fallon.
5.50 Kempton (Win Big With Betdaq Multiples Handicap) It’s 7.6 bar Neige D’Antan as I write. They grey filly looked good when she won over CD in September.
The Wonga Coup is an obvious danger and Rapid Water, who has finished in the frame in nine of 11 starts, is a better offer for a place (three chances) than Neige D’Antan for the win (one chance) but he hasn’t won since 2009.
At 13.5 bar these three, it all reads as though The Wonga Coup is the wrong price at 8.0. Saver Neige D’Antan, of course.
6.20 Kempton (Back Or Lay At betdaq.com Median Auction Maiden Stakes) With William Buick booked, Out Do, who has done well in a handicap, should go in here, dropped back to maiden company.
Homeboy has been placed three times at Kempton and place offers (three chances) this morning were exactly double the win odds available on Out Do (one chance).
6.50 Kempton (Betdaq Mobile Apps Maiden Stakes Division 1) An interesting race, with several top yards involved. But it’s all over bar the shouting if the move for Secret Number this morning is anything to go by.
7.20 Kempton (Betdaq Mobile Apps Maiden Stakes Division 2) Not John Gosden’s Gatewood, but Luca Cumani’s Greatwood, several stone down the scale but a strong order for this, with Fallon taking over from an apprentice.
The Cheveley Park newcomer, Enobled, trained by the enobled Sir Michael Stoute, was the one they didn’t want this morning, out to 12.5. Nor did punters fancy Stasio (15.0) or Fehaydi (19.0). But watch for any later market move.
With nothing else fancied at the time of writing, Sir Henry Cecil’s Cavalryman half-brother, Kelvingrove, looked value at 5.3 to beat the favourite.
7.50 Kempton (Betdaq Casino Games Nursery) This is where I came in at Newmarket, with a trappy nursery (they all are).
Cat O’Mountain won easily over CD in August but Richard Hannon is still king of the nurseries and I fancy Everleigh, impressive when winning her maiden and two grades lower than when running on well over 7f here in a class 2 a fortnight ago: 8.4 win can be covered with a place bet.
DAQMAN’S BETS
BET 4.7pts win NO POPPY and 2.8pts win HIPPY HIPPY SHAKE (4.45 Newmarket)
BET 6.4pts win QUINTILIAN (5.20 Newmarket)
BET 2.8pts win THE WONGA COUP and 2pts win (stakes saver) NEIGE D’ANTAN (5.50 Kempton)
BET 4.6pts win KELVINGROVE (7.20 Kempton)
BET 2.7pts win and place EVERLEIGH (7.50 Kempton)
PLACE SPECIALS: 5pts win on each RAPID WATER (5.50 Kempton) and HOMEBOY (place nap, 6.20 Kempton)
ANTE-POST: WIN-30 JACKPOT: 2pts win GATEWOOD (Melbourne Cup)
* Daqman stakes his win bets to win 20 points (Place bets and jackpot bets vary). You, therefore, know the offer he took (divide 20 by the stake).
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