EIGHT WINNERS IN THREE DAYS: 87 POINTS: Three consecutive days of profit from eight winners to start Daqman’s new year, and it could so easily have been a hat-trick of trebles but Le Milos (2nd 5-1) was held on the run-in of the big race at Sandown.
Saturday, January 3: profit on the day 23.00
WON 11-4 ALL IN YOU
WON 11-4 NURSE SUSAN
Friday, January 2: profit on the day 30.13
WON 10-3 IKARAK (BETDAQ 5.7 taken)
WON 4-9 STELLAR VISION (supernap)
WON 11-8 TIME TESTED three winners in a row again
Thursday, January 1: profit on the day 34.16
WON 6-1 MATATA (BETDAQ 9.3 taken)
WON 8-15 KABRAL DU MATHAN (HOT SPOTS supernap)
WON 3-1 MA SHANTOU for three consecutive winners.
SMALL STAKES TON-UP BID AT SOUTHWELL: Only Southwell survives today; Chepstow and Plumpton have been abandoned. Daqman holds on to 77 points of his profits from the last three days, fishing for returns from 10 points only in small bets. Just one or two bites could take him close to, or past, the 100.
ARLINGTON IS THE SMART BET
⭕ 1.00 Southwell Gina Mangan, who won a class 4 on Dapper Gee Gee in June, is back in the saddle for a trainer in form, with the Dapper one well drawn and within a pound of that winning mark. BETDAQ 11.0.
⭕ 1.30 Southwell Seven times a 6f winner on AW, Havana Sky has been beaten (3rd, 2nd, 2nd) little more than length in total in three recent attempts at 7f. Two out of two on this easier track at Southwell and stable in form. BETDAQ 19.5 (three places 4.5).
⭕ 3.00 Southwell Neil Callan rode a winner and two seconds in Bahrain on Friday, the winner for Kevin Ryan, who has a solid chance in this 5f sprint with Mon Na Slieve, named after a Tipperary mountain. BETDAQ 9.9.
But hold your horses! Callan has switched to old friend Dorney Lake, who is 6lb lower than when winning a class-3 at Doncaster last Spring. BETDAQ 47.0 (three places 6.4).
⭕ 3.35 Southwell Arlington, who has finished 1213 in four starts at Southwell, is well drawn and claimed off for Bryan Smart who has trained 125 winners on the Nottinghamshire course. Betdaq Betting Exchange 7.4
THE GREAT MILL REEF DYNASTY
Mill Reef Is Here To Stay. That was the first headline tip I ever published in any newspaper.
My prediction proved correct in more ways than one. He would be a spur to massive resurgence in Classic horse-racing and bloodstock building that was bringing us the golden years from Sea Bird through Sir Ivor and Nijinsky to Troy and Shergar.
Trained by Ian Balding, who died this week, Mill Reef would open the door to an English and Irish invasion of European racing.
No wonder the stamina question was asked of Mill Reef. Could a Gimcrack-sprint winner as a two-year-old really capture the Arc de Triomphe? Answer: Never again.
But it was no problem for Mill Reef, winner of 12 of his 14 starts, including the Derby and the Eclipse, bettered only in a Classic by great rival Brigadier Gerard in the 2,000 Guineas.
Since then, Dancing Brave (Guy Harwood) and Enable (John Gosden) have been my best bets as raiders of the Arc, despite the domination of English Classics by Sir Michael Stoute and Aidan O’Brien.
Ian Balding was succeeded by his son, Andrew, at the Berkshire yard and is the leading trainer numerically in England, already with a winner in 2026. Can Mill Reef’s stable land another Arc? How about it, Andrew!
DAQMAN’S BETS
on Betdaq Betting Exchange
1.00 Southwell (win 20)
BET 2pts win DAPPER GEE GEE
1.30 Southwell (win 20)
BET 1pt win and place HAVANA SKY
3.00 Southwell (bull’s-eye bet to win 50)
BET 1pt win and place DORNEY LAKE
BET 1pt to win 10 MON NA SLIEVE
3.35 Southwell (win 20, nap)
★ BET 3pts win ARLINGTON
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