DAQMAN THUNDER: 205 POINTS PROFIT: Daqman landed two winners in three races yesterday, Blue Hop at 6-1 and his nap, Charging Thunder at 13-8, to break through the 200-point profit barrier in eight consecutive days without loss: 205 to be precise to recommended points.
Naps on five days out of six
WON 13-8 CHARGING THUNDER (Friday nap)
WON 15-8 COASTAL ROCK (Thursday nap)
WON 5-6 WHITE CROWN STAR (Wednesday nap)
WON 5-4 KATE O’RILEY (Monday nap)
WON 5-1 RED HAPPY (Sunday nap)
Profit over eight days: 205 points
(WON 6-1, WON 13-8) 33.50 profit Friday
(WON 15-8) 4.00 profit Thursday
(WON 5-6) break even Wednesday
(WON 9-1) 34.50 profit Tuesday
(WON 5-4) break even Monday
(WON 7-1 WON 5-1) 22.50 profit Sunday
(WON 8-1 WON 22-1) 76.50 profit Saturday
(WON 9-1) 34.50 profit Friday
THEY’RE OFF ON THE FLAT 2025: Daqman starts as he means to go on with 5.8, 9.4, 13.5, 19.5 and 40.0 BETDAQ bets to launch the Flat season.
DREAMS START TO THE FLAT
⭕ 1.50 Doncaster, (Spring Mile) GOING: Good to soft, soft in places. LAYS LOGIC: No outright favourite has won this in 12 years.
Slow away, ducked left at start, not clear run, held up in rear. It was crazy to see horses under different rides from the low draw strung out together at the end of this straight mile last year – 5, 1, 12, 7, 8, 3, 2 – and then get matched in the Lincoln with 2, 1, 3 in at the finish.
But this time the near side had a lead from stall 17 and towed two from that draw into the frame, so the Lincoln result was 2, 14, 1, 19, 3.
In the Spring Mile today stalls 7, 8 ,9, 10, 11, 12 will release the pace horses on paper. Here’s what I found in the form:
Ocean Of Dreams (3): Winner first time out, fourth in the €108k Gowran Classic last summer before moving from Aidan O‘Brien to Archie Watson.
Stays 1m 2f, so suited by all that pace on, and a huge 13.5 offer on Betdaq Betting Exchange this morning.
FOX A CUNNING KEMPTON BET
⭕ 2.40 Kempton (Rosebery Handicap) The ‘hidden horse’ here is Teumessias Fox, who is 311 at Kempton, all three races between January and March.
Oisin Murphy rides, presumably his pick of three Andrew Balding runners. BETDAQ 5.8.
⭕ 3.15 Kempton (Snowdrop Fillies Listed) Winner at Royal Ascot and Deauville, Soprano (BETDAQ 3.15) is clear on the ratings but may find Rubies From Burma (9.4 taken) hard to handle.
Henry De Bromhead books Oisin Murphy for his progressive filly, all eyes on this first foal of a half-sister to Derby winner Anthony Van Dyck.
HAGGAS IS THE LINCOLN GOD
⭕ 3.35 Doncaster (Lincoln Handicap, ***three-star guide: see Thursday) LAYS LOGIC: The favourite has won once in 14 years, and 14 of the last 22 have failed to place.
Newmarket trainer William Haggas has won the Lincoln three times (in 2007, 2010 and 2018).
His five-year-old Godwinson, well drawn in stall 3, likes cut in the ground and was beaten only half a length (had to be switched) in a similar race on a straight course, the Newbury Spring Cup, his first outing of last season.
With Tom Marquand away at Rosehill, Cieran Fallon comes in for the ride after 2-3 this week.
Somerville Lodge is far and away Cieran’s top yard and his profit backing Haggas rides is in three figures to level stakes!
Middle-to-high draws have the best strike rate and Oliver Show (+6lb) and Magnum Opus (+3lb), side by side in gates 15 and 16, get in pounds below their future rating.
The burgeoning stable of George Boughey is in form; so, too, jockey Billy Loughnane; and Oliver Show is fit from a short season in Bahrain.
Magnum Opus was 5th over today’s straight mile in September to the 2022 Lincoln winner, Johan, after finishing behind Oliver Show at Southwell.
He is a year older now but, though under the radar for a slice of his future rating, he still has to pay for a winning season at Meydan.
At seven, Fantastic Fox (17) has done the rounds of the big handicaps and is fit from AW but his strike rate on turf is a modest 2-20.
Last year’s Lincoln winner, Mr Professor, runner-up Lattam (the 2023 Irish Lincolnshire winner) and the 4th horse, Alpha Crucis, all took advantage of deeper conditions.
Orandi won the Irish Lincolnshire, also on soft, 13 days back; he has a 5lb penalty but a pleasing draw in 2. Has held his form well in the past.
If there’s a ‘told you so’, it would be Thunder Run, bought for big future bounty by a Scandinavian syndicate, though be warned that Karl Burke’s four-year-old is gelded which limits the options.
Betdaq Betting Exchange 7.1 Thunder Run, 19.5 Godwinson, 40 Oliver Show.
MOORE MUST MASTER THE POET
⭕ 4.00 Curragh (Gladness Stakes) It would be a master class if Karl Burke could follow Lincoln victory with a Pattern success here within half an hour.
His Poet Master, seasonal debut winner last season, is in a fascinating match here with Camille Pissarro, who also won first time last April but failed to score again until taking the Lagardere top two-year-olds test at Longchamp in October.
Aidan O’Brien praised Christophe Soumillon for his superb hold-up tactics on a colt which had been beaten a head, half a length and a nose in three disappointing rides under Ryan Moore, which will want to restore his reputation today.
DAQMAN’S BETS on Betdaq Betting Exchange
1.50 Doncaster (win-50 bull’s-eye bet)
BET 4pts win and place OCEAN OF DREAMS
2.40 Kempton (win 20)
BET 4pts win TEUMESSIAS FOX
3.15 Kempton (win-50 bull’s-eye bet)
BET 6pts win RUBIES FROM BURMA
BET 6pts to win 12 SOPRANO
3.35 Doncaster (win-50 bull’s-eye bets)
BET 6.5pts win THUNDER RUN
BET 2.7pts win and place GODWINSON
BET 1.25pts win and place OLIVER SHOW
★ 4.00 Curragh (win 20, nap)
BET 10pts win CAMILLE PISSARRO
BET 5pts to win 10 POET MASTER
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