BANKER GOES IN BY 19 LENGTHS: Daqman returned to form with his bankers yesterday at a good price and in scintillating style as Vaniteux (WON 8-11) jumped them into the ground to land the nap by 19 lengths at Kempton.
TWO WINNERS IN THE SAME RACE: Then he switched back to the Flat for an AW ‘Double Whammy’, naming the easy winner, Mindurownbusiness (WON 2-1), and laying one at the front of the market in the same race at Chelmsford.
THAT’S 12 LAYS IN SUCCESSION: The horse he opposed, Big Whiskey (2nd 4-1), became winning lay number 12 out of 12, as follows:
WIN Bathos (unplaced 4-1)
WIN Grendisar (4th 9-4 favourite)
WIN Zebstar, place lay (unplaced 12-1)
WIN Cameraman (2nd 9-4 favourite)
WIN Gleneagles (unplaced 9-4)
WIN Wild Storm (unplaced 5-2 favourite)
WIN Fame Game (unplaced 4-1 favourite)
WIN Alfie Spinner (unplaced 14-1)
WIN Kings Palace, place lay (unplaced 13-2 favourite)
WIN Mick Jazz, place lay (pulled up 6-1 jt favourite)
WIN Gunner Fifteen (unplaced 13-8 favourite)
WIN Big Whiskey (2nd 4-1)
ZULU OSCAR COULD TANGO ON THE BETDAQ CARD
Don’t ask me why. I seem to have done well at meetings sponsored by BETDAQ this year – I even had five winning bets on one Kempton card – and BETDAQ Races 2015 have not finished yet.
On Saturday are seven straight races under the BETDAQ name, currently boasting 152 entries, named in the BETDAQ style of ‘Serious About Horses’ and serious about betting, too, highlighting bonuses and reduced commission.
The day is a new one at Doncaster, so I can’t give you any stats for the four hurdles, two chases and a bumper. But I have found some Hot Spots.
HOT SPOT: I like the look of Zulu Oscar (1.20), returning after a year off in the Betdaq.com £50 In Free Bets Handicap Hurdle.
Zulu Oscar, trained by Harry Fry, has managed to score in November for two years running, even though he’s had only five completed starts in his life. Fry’s form figures in the four days since Friday are: 2110112201.
Zulu Oscar is a glass horse but one with a lot of ability and the art of keeping them together always works best when a horse is fresh.
HOT SPOT: I’m also told to watch out for another back from a long absence, Grand Turina (3.05), in the Betdaq.com £50 Games Bonus Mares Novices’ Hurdle, a bumper winner for Pam Sly, now switched to Venetia Williams.
As a Kayf Tara, Grand Turina will need all and more of Saturday’s 2m 3f, and should be a mare to follow when she goes handicapping.
I’M GOING ON A BENDER WITH LINGFIELD NAP
1.00 Lingfield I’ll repeat those current Harry Fry form figures – 2110112201 – and give you a comparison with Jamie Snowden’s: 00P00P24P3.
That’s one reason why I shall be on Fry’s sole runner today, Jessber’s Dream, over the Snowden market rival, Midnight Silver.
2.00 Lingfield Master Jake has won a Point by a distance and a novice hurdle by 18 lengths but it’s all relative to class, and he has to give 7lb to two-years-younger Wabanaki, highly regarded and whose dam is half-sister to a Champion Hurdler.
2.30 Lingfield Sirop de Menthe had 123 and 125 horses in third and fourth when winning seven lengths at Huntingdon, so maybe the 7lb penalty that takes him to a 118 rating is not enough.
The race was only on Saturday but he’s trying to avoid the handicapper’s hammer with a quick run back, as Big Whiskey tried, and failed narrowly, on AW Flat yesterday.
Big Whiskey’s defeat gave me a 12th consecutive winning lay but I’m warned that Sirop de Menthe ran twice in two days in February and finioshed second both times.
Even more telling is that he has never been out of the first two on heavy ground this year (form figures 1222), including for Lucy Gardner, who takes off a valuable 3lb, reducing his penalty so that, in reality, he runs off only 115.
Rock Of Leon scored over the Lingfield CD two weeks ago and was raised 6lb to 129 but the second horse home had been beaten total of 55 lengths since winning a simple affair at Fontwell last Christmas.
Even further back was Minstrels Gallery, who is not out of it today. Since winning at Fakenham in January, he was hiked to class 2 until that reappearance at Lingfield, which he badly needed and is now 9lb better off with the winner.
Trainer Sue Gardner goes for a hat-trick (still standing) via Sirop de Menthe, and the stone he gets from Rock of Leon could swing it.
3.00 Lingfield Rocky Bender is best caught fresh on heavy ground. He not only has these conditions today but gets a minimum of a stone from everything else, 23lb from the top weight.
Fourovakind’s stable is also in form and he also likes the mud but has never won on his reappearance and has struggled in his two races since a 9lb rise for scoring at Chepstow in January. This is his prep run for the Welsh National.
Wilton Manila is dropped in grade and the handicapper has given him a chance today, with Team Skelton doing well.
One of the younger horses could carry the weight but it’s a fair bet (in fact, very fair at 5.2 on BETDAQ) that Rocky Bender can go in first time.
3.10 Southwell I’m tempted to open a tack shop! Every one of the 11 runners in this class-6 handicap is wearing headgear. It’s tongue-ties 4, visors 4, blinkers 2, cheekpieces 2, hood 1.
Meebo is my best guess for the race, dropped back from 6f to the scene of two successes at the minimum trip, and with Joe Fanning booked: 23.0 on BETDAQ this morning.
DAQMAN’S BETS
BET 5pts win JESSBER’S DREAM (1.00 Lingfield)
BET 5pts win WABANAKI (2.00 Lingfield)
BET 6pts win SIROP DE MENTHE (2.30 Lingfield)
BET 7pts win (nap) ROCKY BENDER (3.00 Lingfield)
BET 1pt win and place MEEBO (3.10 Southwell)
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