11 UP! DAQMAN LOVES WINNERS AND THEY KEEP ON COMING IN: Daqman bettered his winner-a-day week of 10 strikes up to January 24 when he completed eight consecutive February days with 11 winners when It’s A Love Thing scored yesterday. There have been four winning naps and a win-50 bull’s-eye bet at 15.0 (WON 10-1) in this second spell of daily hits.
WON 9-4 IT’S A LOVE THING Tuesday
WON 10-3 SECRET VICTORY Monday
WON 1-3 APPRECIATE IT Sunday nap
WON 10-1 OFF YOU GO from BETDAQ 15.0 Sunday
WON 10-11 HONEYSUCKLE Saturday nap
WON 8-13 ROYAUME UNI Friday nap
WON 4-1 QUICK WAVE from BETDAQ 6.8 Friday
WON 85-40 EASY AS THAT Friday
WON 5-4 LUCKY ONE Thursday
WON 13-8 ANNIE Mc Wednesday nap
WON 3-1 BRIAN THE SNAIL Tuesday
HEADS UP FOR A DERBY AND A DAILY HIT NINE DAYS IN A ROW: Daqman starts the day with a heads up on an Irish raid being planned for the Winter Derby. Then we have to stay with AW at Wolverhampton, with everything else called off, not a nice scenario to continue the winner-a-day streak. But Daqman has to be where the racing is; there’s nowhere else to go.
MUCH ADO ABOUT THE WINTER DERBY
Let’s talk about a Derby for a change. This one is the preserve of John Gosden and Frankie Dettori, going for a hat-trick at Lingfield on February 27.
Their recent winners of the Winter Derby – Wisahickon and Dubai Warrior – were both tipped in this column, with Wisahickon the earliest Flat-season Fortune Cookie on record.
Not hard to see Global Giant making it three for the team. Two out of three on AW and a Listed winner at Newbury, now on a mark of 113.
Just a pound in front for top spot in the ratings is Extra Elusive but he was beaten a length by Global Giant in that Newbury Listed.
And planning to get ready early and pinch the £30,000 pot from under Gosden’s nose is Dublin trainer, Ado McGuinness, who gives himself two big chances:
Saltonstall (rated 111) Won the Mile at the Galway Festival two years running 2019-20 and landed a hat-trick last autumn in the Munster Mile at Limerick, a Naas Listed and on the Dundalk polytrack in November when he had the Irish 2,000 Guineas winner of 2018, Romanised, back in third.
Bowerman (106) Looks handy for this, having scored four times after a break, and with six Dundalk wins under his belt.
He started last summer by winning a late renewal of the Irish Lincolnshire before completing back-to-back wins at Dundalk over the distance of the Lingfield Derby.
His second success at Dundalk was the Group-3 Diamond Stakes. Granted Group races on AW are regarded as lesser contests than on turf, his stablemate, Saltonstall, tried Group 3 twice on turf and got no nearer than 12 lengths off the winner.
FASHION SHOW LIKELY AFTER SWITCH
⭕ 5.45 Wolverhampton Clive Cox has scored with three three-year-olds this year, two of them at Wolverhampton. The grey Impressions Dream could be another.
But there is nothing in her form or her pedigree to suggest that stepping up a furlong could be the answer on this handicap debut.
Say It As It Is represents David Evans, who has had eight three-year-old winners already in 2021, including last night’s Daqman tip ,It’s A Love Thing.
The ‘but’ this time is that his top-weight has raced in three Wolver handicaps at odds that suggest ‘no chance’ and getting bigger all the time: 33-1, 50-1 and 150-1.
Stablemate Almost An Angel has Tom Queally booked but it all looks a bit desperate with first-time visor after a gelding op. Now Almost An Angel is almost a horse and, if a fab filly passes by, he can’t see her anyway!
One filly who could pass by is Fashion (BETDAQ 7.8), bred in the purple. She’s switched stables to Sir Mark Prescott, who landed a gamble, with Ryan Tate the rider, at Lingfield on Saturday.
⭕ 6.15 Wolverhampton This class 2 has an obvious favourite, Tranchee, who is 122123321, still standing, in a six-month spell that has hiked him 26lb up the handicap.
He could be said to be improving if you are prepared to equate soft ground at York (second to Gulliver in the Coral Sprint in receipt of 10lb) with standard-to-slow at Kempton when he beat Gulliver at level weights the last day.
Beat Le Bon’s peak form was on firm ground (hat-trick in 2019) and his one AW run was an all-the-way win at Lingfield last March. Gelded since runner-up in a Group 3 at Salisbury in August.
You have to go back two years to find winning form for Keyser Soze. The old-timer Sir Maximilian has scored three times since then.
Revolutionise has been a slow improver but in good form this month and the question-mark is whether he will continue to do well, switched from Polytrack to Tapeta.
The surface suits Lord Of The Lodge, arguably the class horse of the race and a winner at Newcastle this time last year, after running second in the Gimcrack and attempting the July Cup and the Jersey Stakes. He was 7.4 on the BETDAQ BETTING EXCHANGE this morning.
Lord Of The Lodge had a run round Wolver on Boxing Day, following a long break and wind surgery. Karl Burke’s stable is in form and he has a huge strike rate in handicaps on this course.
⭕ 7.15 Wolverhampton Maybe Mellys Flyer can take after her ‘mum’, who won second time out over today’s trip.
Time Frame is a danger, reverting to this surface after a poor run on fibresand, and Ronan Accuser could get a flyer from the one stall.
But the obvious danger, though a stable cast-off, is Declaring Lover, placed three times on turf before changing stables.
DAQMAN’S BETS
5.45 Wolverhampton (win 10)
BET 1.5pts win FASHION
6.15 Wolverhampton (win 20 nap)
BET 3pts win LORD OF THE LODGE
7.15 Wolverhampton (win 10)
BET 2.6pts win MELLYS FLYER
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