ANGEL CHARGE TO A FORTUNE: After yesterday’s look at value hunting, here’s more of Daqman’s elementary workload that makes a winning punter. First, holding aces in your hand for Group races (Fortune Cookies), complemented by, secondly, your own handicap of high-level three-year-olds. Daqman’s two lists include a new hot ‘cookie’, Easton Angel.
IS IT WORTH PAYING TIPSTERS? Yesterday’s article (Be An Eagle: Swoop On Betdaq Value) prompts Daqman to ask the question. As for Daqman, he stands by his personal credo: ‘The successful punter stands alone; the crowd by definition cannot get rich.’
TOMORROW: Daqman’s famous ABC analysis looks at the Eclipse.
ANGEL JOINS THE FORTUNE-COOKIES CHARGE
Seven winners for a 41% strike-rate. That’s from 17 starts. We can do better and, as a boost, I’ve added Easton Angel for Saturday’s Coral Charge, when we also hope to be represented by one or two in the Eclipse including Found, significantly short with Ladbrokes.
As I predicted, Easton Angel’s trainer, Michael Dods, was back to form yesterday, saddling my tip, Causey Arch (WON 13-8 from 4.7 on BETDAQ).
Then we’ve got Dartmouth, Cotai Glory and Usherette at the July meeting. Here are the results (as form figures) for each horse since it joined the list.
- –3 Awtaad (Kevin Prendergast) target Sussex Stakes, Goodwood, July 27
- –22 Cotai Glory (Charles Hills) July Cup, Newmarket, July 9
- –1 Dannyday (Sir Michael Stoute), no further entries yet.
- — Dartmouth (Sir Michael Stoute), Princess Of Wales’s Stakes, Newmarket, July 7
- INSERT Easton Angel (Michael Dods), Coral Charge, Sandown, Saturday
- –0 Exosphere (Sir Michael Stoute), Eclipse Stakes, Sandown, Saturday, or Princess Of Wales’s Stakes, Newmarket, July 7
- 232 Found (Aidan O’Brien), Eclipse Stakes, Sandown, Saturday
- 211 Minding (Aidan O’Brien) won the Pretty Polly at The Curragh, on Sunday
- DELETE Red Verdon (Ed Dunlop) after one run; few options available.
- –1 So Mi Dar (John Gosden) Irish Oaks, The Curragh, July 16.
- -11 Profitable (Clive Cox), Nunthorpe Stakes, York, August 19
- –2 US Army Ranger (Aidan O’Brien), King George, Ascot, July 23
- –1 Usherette (Andre Fabre), Falmouth Stakes, Newmarket, July 8
HARZAND NEW NUMBER ONE BUT MIND OUT!
Do you remember the article? It was called Your Job As A Racehorse Handicapper. Well, how did you do with your list? How did I do with my own list that day, and what’s next from the Top Six?
On the left is the rating I gave them; at right of their name the rating I reckon on now (if appropriate) and their probable next race.
118 Awtaad (K Prendergast), next Sussex Stakes, Goodwood, July 27.
116 Harzand>123 (D Weld) WON Irish Derby; next King George, July 23
115 Minding>121 (A P O’Brien) WON Pretty Polly Stakes; next Irish Oaks or Nassau Stakes, Goodwood
113 Almanzor (J-C Rouget) next International, York, August 17
113 Galileo Gold>118 (H Palmer) WON St James’s Palace Stakes
113 The Gurkha>115 (A P O’Brien) next Eclipse Stakes, Saturday
THE DON OF VALUE PUNTERS DOWN UNDER
You’ve met ’em! Johnny Know-Alls. The new kids on the block who tell you they’re professional gamblers and have found the winning formula.
Or The Voice in the betting shop (so you can’t even hear the commentary): ‘You haven’t backed that Big Jess, have you! It couldn’t win if they took it round the course on a lorry..’
And, after Big Jess trots up: ‘What did I tell you.. he’s crooked that trainer and that jockey’s so bent he can see round corners in a strait-jacket. I don’t know what they fed that horse; but they could all do with a mug of it in the House Of Commons.’
Seriously, though, folks.. Can you trust adverts for tipsters in the Racing Post? Well, they are rigorously tested and have to obey definite rules (I don’t know about elsewhere).
But the snag is you have to read ‘the form’; that is to say, you have to read between the lines. If the tipster’ ad is still carrying May’s headlines, he probably hasn’t done too well in June!
Why bother with them when you can get BETDAQ TIPS for free. Yours truly, Daqman, is not connected with any on-line site, or tipping service, and I have none of my own.
I mention that today because, in talking of the Legal Eagles yesterday, I did not intend any advertisement for any more recent service of that name.
To set the record straight, the Legal Eagles man of my acquaintance was the late Don Scott, of the Australian syndicate of that name. You can read about him on Google but far better to buy his book, though much rarer than opals in Oz.
He was certainly the don of value hunters Down Under, known as the Professor Of The Punt. Only Murray Dwyer comes close in the age of algorithms. Don and Murray taught me my Pot Of Gold method.
MEET CLOCKER, THE HOARSE WHISPERER..
Clock this for a tipping scam! In the good old bad old days, the London Evening News editionised six times from the Early to the Late Extra.
The same tipster appeared in all editions, often tipping a different horse in the same race! If by the time of the late editions, his nap had lost, he simply picked another one in a later race!
All he had to remember for his blurb the following day was in which edition he had tipped the winner..
But head and shoulders above them all was Clocker. The self-styled time expert on the Greyhound Express also ran a telephone tipping service, based on mail-shots and using the local tobacconist as his dead letter box.
Alongside the daily tipping column under his own name was his own advertisement for ‘Clocker’ which he created himself, a graphic of stop watches and hare-obsessed dogs flying from the traps.
At lunchtime, if you just happened along to buy your cigarettes in the right shop, you would hear a hoarse whisper at the counter: ‘Any mail for Clocker?’
(Clocker later worked for me on one of the Fleet Street papers. I never allowed him to leave his desk at lunchtime!)
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked 1 to 9 for strength; banker today 20)
BANKER BET: 20pts win DAVID’S DUCHESS (4.30 Hamilton)
BET 5pts win BAHAMIAN SUNRISE (5.45 Brighton)
BET 5pts win MEDBURN CUTLER (8.10 Chepstow)
BET 4pts win BERNISDALE (8.40 Chepstow)
£25 IN FREE BETS
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