NATIONAL: DAQMAN CRYSTAL BALL IS SO CLOSE AGAIN: Daqman’s crystal ball reveals all (or almost all), so close to an exact prediction of the two big-race results of the last week. What are the odds of landing four of the first five in each of the Spring Double of Lincoln and National? Daqman did it, including a return of 50 points yesterday from a place bet on the fourth horse home at Aintree. See below.
LONGCHAMP SUPERNAP: SNEAKY OUTSIDER AT FFOS LAS: Daqman complains about the so-flat Flat turf season but looks forward to a crack at two more Nationals, and to showering April with new bets. He’s tipping at Cork, with an outsider at Ffos Las and a supernap at Longchamp.
DAQMAN NAMES 4 OUT OF 5 TWICE
Order, Order! Daqman named four of the first five from his order-in for the big race for the second Saturday running yesterday.
After his 1-2-4-5 for the Lincoln finished 5-3-2-1, his Grand National prediction yesterday was even closer to a correct forecast when his 1-2-4-5 finished 3-1-4-5, two of the places predicted exactly.
DAQMAN’S GRAND NATIONAL ORDER-IN
1 Rathvinden 3rd 8-1
2 Tiger Roll WON 4-1
4 Walk In The Mill 4th 25-1
5 Anibale Fly 5th 10-1
DAQMAN’S LINCOLN HANDICAP FORECAST
1 Ripp Orf 5th 14-1
2 Berenger 3rd 9-1
4 Kynren 2nd 9-2
5 Auxerre WON 5-2
TWO MORE NATIONALS TO COME
Now it goes Flat! How can the Flat turf season follow one of the best Cheltenhams in years and the most sensational Grand National winner since Red Rum. Answer? Right now, it doesn’t even try.
TODAY, Sunday: No Flat racing in England. Cork holds the fort on these islands. Longchamp opens its season.
MONDAY: Modest class-4 and class-5 racing at Redcar; similar fare at Windsor but with a class-3 sprint.
TUESDAY: Pontefract similar with a class-3 sprint. Big fields likely at Gowran Park in the evening.
WEDNESDAY: Ah, a Listed race at Nottingham! Don’t spoil us too much.
THURSDAY: That’s more like it: no Flat turf at all!
What saves us from total boredom? Why jumps racing of course. Saturday is the Scottish Grand National and Sunday week the Irish Grand National.
Somewhere in between the two Nationals are the AW Championships on Good Friday. The Flat turf season really starts after that with the Craven Meeting at Newmarket. Unless it rains.. And then it really starts at the Guineas meeting, when the early English Classics are a poor guide to the season and everyone says: the Derby is just TOO early. Just thought I’d remind you.
How to liven things up? Well, I shall be revealing new bets, for one thing. And, of course, trying to name the first five in the two Nationals at Ayr and Fairyhouse! I’ll get there.. So stay with us!
CHARLIE’S GOT THE GOOD THING
1.35 Longchamp (Prix La Force) This had a top-class winner in 2016, Cloth Of Stars, who would become the first colt home in two Arcs (work that one out!).
Clive Cox tries to emulate last year’s successful raid by Martyn Meade, booking James Doyle to ride Getchagetchagetcha, who reappeared at Kempton last month.
But the pointer of the race will be whether Shaman (trained Laffon-Parias and a winner already this Spring) boosts the form of the Lagardere, in which he was fifth.
Andre Fabre, who has won this race twice in the last three years, including with Cloth Of Stars, saddles Roman Candle and Urwald, both winning sons of French Derby winner Le Havre.
4.00 Longchamp (Prix d’Harcourt) Cloth Of Stars went on to take this Group 2, won last year by Ralph Beckett with Air Pilot.
It looks good today for man-in-form Charlie Appleby, whose 1210011 Meydan sequence, contains the Lincoln Handicap with Auxerre as the penultimate strike.
His contender here, Ghaiyyath, returned after a long absence after winning a Group 3 at Newmarket, scoring here at Longchamp at the same level in September, when jockey William Buick – he rides again today – described the colt as ‘a proper horse for next year.’
This Dubawi out of a Galileo mare is a half-brother to Dermot Weld’s Man O’War winning mare, Zhukova.
5.20 Cork Weld made a wonderful start to the turf season, scoring six times between Navan and Leopardstown in a five-day spree: 101010111. Five of the six were maidens!
That tempts me to have a euro or two on Kattani, related to Group winners on the dam’s side but gelded since a decent enough debut at Naas earlier in March. Around 3-1.
SNEAKY OUTSIDER AT FFOS LAS
3.40 Ffos Las Lord Bryan gets stronger as he gets older and looks as if this step up in trip is needed. The 5.5 BETDAQ offers early mouse reflected punters’ worries about the extra distance. I’ll take that.
4.10 Ffos Las I have a Sneaky Feeling that the eponymous Philip Hobbs seven-year-old can come good after a wind op, wisely stepped up in trip where the pace won’t be so testing early on.
He was tried at Graded level in the Chepstow Silver Trophy, and the morning 17.0 on BETDAQ looked huge.
DAQMAN’S BETS
3.40 Ffos Las (win 20)
BET 4.5pts win LORD BRYAN
4.00 Longchamp (supernap)
BET 20pts win GHAIYYATH
4.10 Ffos Las (win 30)
BET 1.75pts win and place SNEAKY FEELING
5.20 Cork (win 10)
BETBET 3.25pts win KATTANI
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