DAQMAN BEATS PRICEWISE NINE SEASONS RUNNING: The Flat season starts with the Lincoln Handicap on Saturday. The Jumps season in the Daqman-Pricewise value battle ended yesterday, when both had 10-1 winner Clyne after Daqman bagged the Gold Cup with 5-1 Native River. Daqman has now beaten Pricewise for nine consecutive seasons.
HE FINISHES WITH FABULOUS LEVEL-STAKES PROFIT: The final score was 28-14 to Daqman with the winning tipster showing a 20-point profit to a single-unit stake, all selections, 47 points in front of the Racing Post man (Pricewise finishing on -27). Any profit to level stakes is remarkable over such a long period.
TODAY: Carlisle and Ffos Las in England and Navan in Ireland abandoned. Racing only at Limerick.
TOMORROW: Southwell abandoned. Read Daqman’s Cheltenham wrap and Flat launch.
DAQMAN’S 521 HITS OVER PRICEWISE
There’s a feast of winners to come. Daqman and Pricewise could claim just 42 big-race successes between them in the mudbath of the 2017-18 NH season, ended yesterday by the Flat’s false start this week.
Daqman showed a slight improvement on the previous jumps campaign with 28 to the 22 of 2016-17, while the Pricewise tally remained at the same low level.
But the good news is that you can expect three times as many feature-event winners from Daqman in the 2018 Flat season, if he matches his 2016 hit list of 88 or 2017 score of 86. Even those were ‘no contest’ against his sensational 105 successes in 2015.
Daqman has never been beaten by Pricewise. He’s gone nine seasons now winning every time, with an overall score of 521 to 208:
2013-14 NH season final score DAQMAN 39, PRICEWISE 12
2014 Flat season final score DAQMAN 69, PRICEWISE 47
2014-15 NH season final score DAQMAN 33, PRICEWISE 14
2015 Flat season final score DAQMAN 105, PRICEWISE 23
2015-16 NH season final score DAQMAN 51, PRICEWISE 20
2016 Flat season final score DAQMAN 88, PRICEWISE 40
2016-17 NH season final score DAQMAN 22, PRICEWISE 15
2017 Flat season final score DAQMAN 86, PRICEWISE 23
2017-18 NH season final score DAQMAN 28, PRICEWISE 14
IRISH HAVING A GOOD THYNE..
Just when the Brits thought it was safe to ignore the Irish. Some of them are hardly home with the Cheltenham silverware but punters everywhere are left at their mercy again with only Limerick surviving the second coming of the Beast from the East. I’m just waiting for Boris to say that Putin sent it.
As I said just a week ago, why no AW meeting scheduled in England on a Sunday? We might also ask: why will the Flat again make its false start? I thought they had sorted that!
Next Saturday and Sunday, the Lincoln at Doncaster and the Irish Lincolnshire at Naas. Then the Irish Grand National and the Aintree original take over the weekend racing.
I think I declare the end of the Jumps early because I’m looking forward to Spring and summer. Looking forward, that is, through a snowstorm.
But how else will the English Flat survive until the Guineas at Newmarket in May, except with AW racing. We’ll be thanking the Irish again as Naas returns with the Gladness Stakes meeting on April 8.
2.30 Limerick A Grade-3 novice hurdle renews the scrap between Gordon Elliott and Willie Mullins, two days on from Cheltenham.
Alletrix is favourite but her Punchestown conqueror at Listed level, Meri Devie, let the form down at last week’s festival, though the Mullins contender here, Court Artist, was well behind Alletrix at Leopardstown before that.
And the runner-up to Alletrix that day, Barra, was third behind Bleu Berry and Topofthegame, beaten only a length and a half, in a cracking Coral Cup. It’s one of those form illusions: now you see it; now you don’t.
Gordon Elliott’s Lackaneen Leader has improved since Crackerdancer swamped him here at Limerick in December, particularly for a step up in trip at Navan in February. This is further again.
Also suited by today’s 2m 6f should be Moyhenna, a Westerner out of a Montjeu mare who won up to 3m.
And you can’t discount Mullins’ seeming second string, Redhotfillypeppers, who is by the same sire as the mighty mare Quevega.
It’s such a hot race, with Alletrix potentially vulnerable to improvers. I’ll have a bit of win and place Moyhenna at 8.6.
3.35 Limerick Winner of three out of four, chases and hurdles, Goodthynemilan, blinkered first time for Gordon Elliott and Davy Russell, has to be the nap when the second favouirte is 11 years old.
4.10 Limerick Back to the future with Kate Appleby Shoes who won that Grade-3 novice (2.30) last year.
But she trailed in behind Dinaria des Obeaux at Thurles, as did Youcantcallherthat after a bad mistake.
Kate Appleby Shoes and West Bridge were then well in rear of Youcantcallherthat (jumping improved) at Thurles and that one at 4.9 might be able to take on the favourite, Dinaria, at odds on.
DAQMAN TIPS (each staked to win 20 points each)
2.30 Limerick
BET 2.5pts win and place MOYHENNA
3.35 Limerick
BET 12pts win (nap) GOODTHYNEMILAN
4.10 Limerick
BET 5pts win YOUCANTCALLHERTHAT
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