DAQMAN LANDS TOUCH FOR A HAT-TRICK OF NAPS: Go for a Touch! said Daqman in this column yesterday, as he primed a third successive winning nap. It was close for Touch Kick (WON 7-4), who landed a gamble at Taunton, with not so much a tap-in more a nutmeg, as he allowed the runner-up to overtake, then came again and ‘did him’ on the line. Daqman took close to 3-1 on BETDAQ.
WON 7-4 TOUCH KICK (Monday nap)
WON 13-8 SIR EREC (Sunday nap)
WON 11-10 LE RICHEBOURG (Saturday supernap)
JANUARY ACCOUNT AND FEBRUARY BY NUMBERS: TODAY Daqman celebrates a January of hot naps sequences and shows that February is a wicked month for winners. TOMORROW: The Bull’s-Eye Nap explained. THURSDAY: Fortune Cookies update.
JANUARY ACCOUNT
NEW AGE OF 50-POINT NAPS
It was a cracking find! January, 2019, was the month Daqman introduced Bull’s-Eye Naps, best bets staked to win 50 points.
There were just two of them and both won: Tedham (WON 4-1) and Cracking Find (WON 9-2), one of them in naps sequences at the start of the month, the other towards the end of the month in another run of winning best bets.
JANUARY 9: supernap sequence
WON 5-4 LET RIP
WON 8-13 APPLE’S JADE
WON 10-11 REETH
WON 1-1 GIVEN CHOICE
WON 5-6 RIBBLE VALLEY
JANUARY 9: naps sequence
WON 10-11 REETH
WON 4-1 TEDHAM (bull’s-eye)
WON 11-8 THE TWO AMIGOS
WON 1-1 GIVEN CHOICE
WON 5-6 RIBBLE VALLEY
JANUARY 30: naps five days running
WON 13-8 NESTOR PARK
WON 8-13 PYM (supernap)
WON 4-9 ESPOIR D’ALLEN (supernap)
WON 6-4 HONEYSUCKLE (supernap)
WON 9-2 CRACKING FIND (bull’s-eye)
FEBRUARY BY NUMBERS
Amazing month for naps. February has started well with back-to-back Daqman naps at the Dublin Festival, and the hat-trick completed yesterday.
But there’s a long way to go to match February 2017, when he had a 68% naps strike rate and 10 supernaps out of 15. He’d done it before with a 64% strike rate in 2013. February by numbers:
- 19 (Daqman 2017) He gave 19 winning February naps (68% strike rate); 10 winning bankers out of 15 (a strike rate of 66%).
- 14 (Daqman 2015) 14 wins in one day; seven bankers in a row.
- 16 (Daqman 2014) Grand National trial winner at 16-1
- 18 (Daqman 2013) Daqman has 18 naps up (64% strike rate)
- 14 (Daqman 2012) Value-bet Bourne wins BF Hurdle at 14-1
BIG-RACE DATES THIS MONTH: Saturday, BF Hurdle; Sunday, Punchestown Grand National Trial; Saturday 16, Haydock Park Grand National Trial and Ascot Chase; Saturday 23, Winter Derby, Lingfield.
COULD BE A BACHELOR PARTY
1.50 Market Rasen Success bred success for past winners of this. All were penalised (and all of them 5-4 or shorter at SP), so the stats are for Nicky Henderson’s Lisheen Castle.
But Irish raider Bachelor was making a race of it with subsequent Dublin festival winner, Sir Erec, when he fell at the last at the Leopardstown Christmas meeting.
He’s notionally 10lb in front of Lisheen Castle on form yet receives 6lb. Is he a good thing? Or was he flattered in the Sir Erec race? Decisions, decisions.
2.55 Market Rasen Not another Henderson winner! Very likely as Clarendon Street (‘a big, strong horse; chasing will be his game’) won as he liked on the last day after running up to a stablemate who then won a Grade-2 for novices.
Another last-day winner, Garretstown came 30 lengths clear of the field with his runner-up when he made all here at Market Rasen last month.
This is a specialists track but, stepping up in trip on Garretstown, it’s debatable whether Richard Johnson will want to operate similar tactics. The market says he will and that he’s not going to last out (18.5 BETDAQ this morning).
Senior Citizen has the same rating as Clarendon Street but Muratello is a half-stone better horse and a year younger. So says the handicapper, without even seeing him win a race in England.
Muratello is yet another magic migrant from the south-west France academy of Guillaume Macaire. Has winning form at Auteuil but gets his rating for a Grade-2 third at Haydock.
That race told us he had class and that he needed today’s step up in trip, but the winner that day was trained by none other than Nicky Henderson.
So it is that Clarendon Street has the edge on Muratello in the market in his chosen race of three this week, because he prefers a right-handed track.
It’s a really solid contest and you’d do well to watch with the future in mind. As for a bet, I’ll take Muratello, assuming that strong traveller Clarendon Street and front-runner Garrettstown set it up for him. But not a good day to try to extend a naps sequence.
DAQMAN’S BETS
1.50 Market Rasen (win 10)
BET 5pts win BACHELOR
2.55 Market Rasen (win 20)
BET 10pts win (nap) MURATELLO
6.15 Newcastle (win 10)
BET 5pts win REY LOOPY
DAQ MULTIPLES
4 x 2pt win doubles (Market Rasen)
LISHEEN CASTLE and BACHELOR (1.50)
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CLARENDON STREET and MURATELLO (2.55)
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