7-2 AND 5-2 IN NAPS HAT-TRICK: Daqman landed his third successive winning nap yesterday when the sun shone as he forecast in yet another winning headline. The ‘sun’ was Sun Cloud (WON 5-2) at Sedgefield, following on Saturday’s 7-2 best bet. The trio of naps was:
WON 2-5 (banker) Minella Rocco
WON 7-2 Sound Investment
WON 5-2 Sun Cloud
66 POINTS WEEKEND PROFIT: Daqman continued in devastating form with three more winning bets out of four, for a profit of more than 23 points, after 42 points on Saturday. Total just short of 66 points over the weekend. Yesterday’s winning bets were:
WON 11-8 Lanceur (seven lengths)
3rd 9-1 (from 23.0 on BETDAQ) Flemensforth (win and place)
WON 5-2 Sun Cloud (nap, five lengths)
HOW HE STARTS HIS CHELTENHAM COUNTDOWN: Daqman starts the week before Cheltenham (countdown from tomorrow) in terrific form with:
Bankers: 111111132121311U
Naps: 111
Lays: 11111111111
Big-race challenge: 11113
(Daqman 21, Pricewise 12)
CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL SECRETS REVEALED
I’m running the festival a week early. Starting tomorrow, and for the next four days, I shall check out some of the stats and facts which might lead you to winning conclusions for the Cheltenham Festival.
TOMORROW (for next Tuesday): Which are the best races for punters on the opening day at Cheltenham? What’s the secret ingredient of the first big handicap?
WEDNESDAY: The race with 109 entries but only 13 have the right credentials. The big handicap for stayers which Paul Nicholls and Willie Mullins have sussed out year on year.
THURSDAY: Every season the winner has ratings in a range of only 3lb! Which hurdle am I talking about? Every year this chase is within a ratings range of just 5lb. Which one is that?
FRIDAY: Six of the last eight winners had already scored at Cheltenham. The last 10 winners all came from the first three in the market. Which races are these?
THE McCOY ARTIFICE SHOULD LAND THE NAP
Winners are somewhere lying in wait. As the Aussies say, every race has a winner, and it’s your job to find it. They wouldn’t run the races otherwise!
Turning up Sun Cloud at Sedgefield yesterday was a particular pleasure. It was just a question of waiting for Malcolm Jefferson to strike some form after a luckless season.
But I thought it would be a grinder. I thought Sun Cloud would have to show his stamina and try to boss the field.
In fact, he lay out of his ground; came smoothly through, and strode well clear, albeit with the perennial bridesmaid, Astigos, the one chasing him home.
Sun Cloud has raced – and won – over much further than yesterday’s 2m 6f, and he’s tried Listed company. Versatile then.
Time and again, I tell you how difficult it is for winners of low-class races to score again, but there are exceptions and, if I were connections , I’d want to try a quick follow-up with Sun Cloud before the handicapper cries: ‘Hidden horse; I’ve got to stop him.’
FAKENHAM: The quality is from bad yesterday to worse today, with Fakenham blaming travel costs for the low turn-out.
That doesn’t stop Peter Bowen crossing the country from Welsh Wales with Sandynow (4.30) on a 600-mile round trip.
The beast hasn’t won for three years but was much better class than this field in his day, has had a long holiday and seems poised for success off his much lower mark after making a local comeback at Ffos Las.
Aviador ran well last week at Plumpton but it’s four years since he won a race and his best results are on soft-heavy. Today’s drying ground may not suit.
Aviador was the ‘moral’ that day at Plumpton, beaten only a nose, giving 9lb to Flemi Two Toes. Whether either one will enjoy this quick return is debatable.
Tony McCoy rides two for Steve Gollings but his best chance may be for Lucy Wadham, who landed Lanceur for this column yesterday.
Artifice Sivola (4.00), a Dom Alco grey, has shown enough to suggest that he is well up to winning on his handicap debut here, still only five. He owes connections after being beaten favourite twice running. Answer: call in McCoy.
Johnnys Legacy, Morestead and Stafford Charlie are all keen-going quirky sorts who should set up the race for the champion to coast round, conserving his mount’s energy, and then attack.
SOUTHWELL: David Bridgwater is looking for a training double across the cards, with De Kerry Man (3.00 Fakenham) and Nomadic Storm (2.15) here at Southwell, where his main rival, Got The Nac, is making his chasing debut for a stable in form.
Like Our Phylli Vera (3.30 Fakenham), Tarabela (2.50 Southwell) let me down on the last day, and I’m swerving the issue of revenge and going – strange one for me – to an amateur-riders’ race (4.50) on this Ladbrokes card.
Don’t Call Me Oscar sets the standard but has to give a lump of weight to Zero Visibility, who is a willing horse (there are not many of those around today).
With form figures of 112 over hurdles this winter, he made an encouraging chase debut but came up against a hot horse that day at Bangor called Bobbits Way.
Now Bobbits Way had quite a scrap in an earlier race this year at Pliumpton with one giving him 5lb, and survived it only two lengths. That runner-up was the ‘moral’ winner then, wasn’t it. Name of Artifice Sivola. So I’ve got to nap him today.
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked 1 to 9; 10 is a banker)
BET 8pts win (nap) ARTIFICE SIVOLA (4.00 Fakenham)
BET 5pts win SANDYNOW (4.30 Fakenham)
BET 4pts win ZERO VISIBILITY and 2pts win (stakes saver) DON’T CALL ME OSCAR (4.50 Southwell)
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