DAQMAN HITS CITY HAT-TRICK: He’s the Chelmsford City slicker! Daqman landed a treble, in fact three winners in a row, on the new track there yesterday to continue his scoring spree in an unbeaten week.
10 RETURNS IN THREE DAYS: After six winning bets on Monday, including three doubles and a treble, and one at 5-1 on Tuesday, that’s a tip-top 10 successes on AW, with the Jumps abandoned.
THAT’S 75 POINTS PROFIT: Totting up 46.66 points profit on Monday and four more on Tuesday, Daqman added 24.25 yesterday to take the three-day total to just short of 75 points (74.91) from:
WON 6-4 Wajeeh
WON 4-5 Don’t Be
WON 15-8 John Reel
WON 5-1 Gabrial The Duke
WON 7-2 Merdon Castle
WON 11-4 Born To Reign
WON 5-2 Precision Five
MORE VENETIA MOMENTS AT HUNTINGDON
The Jumps are back! On a sunny day at Taunton, but with snow forecast at Huntingdon. However, that’s where the quality racing is, two class-2 hurdles. Let’s take a look at them.
HUNTINGDON: Venetia Williams is the trainer to follow here, with two solid chances. She has tried to farm the handicap hurdle (2.25), with form figures in the last five years of 1212, and she has Dubawi Island poised in the bottom half of the weights, where all the winners of this race come from.
Dubawi Island hasn’t shown much this season but completed a hat-trick around this time last year and 8.8 this morning had to be taken, knowing the trainer’s penchant for the race.
Forthefunofit is the obvious threat but has raced only once in the last 14 months. Bred for stamina, he’s 2.86 (and 8.6 bar) as I write, as if it’s a nothing race. Venetia may be thinking otherwise.
The second class-2 is a juvenile (3.35), in which Triumph Hurdle entries, Arabian Revolution, Chatez and Matorico try to make their mark.
In the form and in the BETDAQ market, the race seems to rest between Arabian Revolution and Chatez and, of the two, I would stay on side with the Alan King stable, which has strength in depth in this department.
King already has top Triumph candidates in Pain Au Chocolat (39.0 taken in this column) and Karezak, the best yardstick in the race. Yet he thought Chatez his best at the start of the season.
Snag is that today’s heat may not be laid to rest that easily. Outsiders have won in three of the last five years, including one trained by Gary Moore.
He introduces Iniesta from Ireland, brother to two Group-1 performers on the Flat, and Jonjo O’Neill saddles a newcomer from France for J P McManus, the grey Matorico. Both get eight lengths start from Chatez.
It won’t have escaped Barcelona fans that Iniesta returns to action on Sunday after injury. What’s that got to do with anything? A report out last year said that thousands of casual punters bet on coincidence. What price a double with Rio Milan (3.00)?
Rio Milan is 19.5 on BETDAQ this morning early mouse, with Bob Tucker reckoned home and hosed at 2.88, though that was before the market settled down and the exchange total percentage on the race was still as high as a bookmaker’s!
Mudita Moment (9.4), who did well at stamina-sapping Towcester on his fences debut, is another Venetia Williams with form at this time of year, and where did he win his last race? Huntingdon.
Bob Tucker is the obvious danger after a good run at Newbury against the seniors, but this is a novice chase and the percentages are against you taking around 2-1 about a front-runner whose never won a chase.
IT’S A SCORCHER IN TAUNTON SUNSHINE
TAUNTON This looks hard work for the punter with big fields, and novices and maidens everywhere. I haven’t bet a lay in ages, and it certainly looks easier to find the 78 losers!
You’ve been given every chance of a successful lay on the favourites in the opener (Pinkneys Prince fell last twice) and the second leg of the maiden (All Yours fell on only start).
I can’t remember when there were two hurdles favourites on the same card who’d both failed to get round that season, certainly not two where neither of them had never even been placed over hurdles before!
But out of the morass of runners of debatable worth on this Taunton day when entries have flooded back as the meeting beats the weather, I’ll play to the sunshine and say What A Scorcher!
What A Scorcher (2.05) gets the four-year-olds’ allowance. She gets the sex allowance. She gets Thomas Garner’s 5lb allowance. Yet she’s been beaten little more than a length in her last two races, one Flat, one hurdles.
Alto des Mottes, second on the course in November is the obvious danger, with the rest easy to back.
DAQMAN’S BETS (1 to 9 shows the strength of the selection; 10 is a banker)
BET 3pts win WHAT A SCORCHER and 1.5pts win (stakes saver) ALTO DES MOTTES (2.05 Taunton)
BET 3pts win and place DUBAWI ISLAND, and 3pts win (stakes saver) FORTHEFUNOFIT (2.25 Huntingdon)
BET 3pts win and place MUDITA MOMENT, and 3pts win (stakes saver) BOB TUCKER (3.00 Huntingdon)
BET 6pts win (nap) CHATEZ (3.35 Huntingdon)
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