NOW IT’S SIX NAPS UP OUT OF 10: Daqman gave a confident vote to Landscape (WON 11-8) yesterday, bringing his naps sequence to 10 out of 11 placed, containing six winners in the last 10. The sequence is 31121013131.
BETDAQ RACING AT KEMPTON TONIGHT: Kempton tonight congratulates Richard Hughes on his jockeys’ title. This follows three Betdaq-sponsored races, with Hughes also featured. But which is his value ride?
Rely on Tony McCoy to wake up the Dormouse. The jockey’s form on him is 124 and the horse’s love of Warwick is revealed in his figures of 112 on the course.
Dormouse (12.50), a 20-1 winner of the race last year, won’t be anything like those odds this time around, and I was happy with 5.5 on BETDAQ this morning.
Kings Troop has yet to take to hurdling and his recent Flat win is unreliable because it was an amateurs’ race. Castletown Bridge may be helped by the drop back to the minimum, but the last twice over further he has seemed a bridle horse, finding nothing when the chips are down.
It will be interesting to see what McCoy makes of Cantlow (2.20), a recent J P McManus buy, bred for a Grand National. It’s probably a case of trying to inject some speed into Cantlow, dropping him back to this 2m for his chasing debut.
Hazy Tom had shaded him in the BETDAQ market early doors, closely followed by Shangani, and there was similar close betting elsewhere at the meeting.
McCoy seems to have swerved Cheat The Cheater (1.30) and Amuse Me (2.30) at Chepstow for the Warwick mounts. In the case of Amuse Me, it’s probably on account of the heavy ground.
With Cue Card giving a master class yesterday, his trainer, Colin Tizzard, is the man to be on, and he gives Sew On Target (I took 3.75) a good enough word in his stable tour today.
On the Flat, Harry Dunlop has two runners at Nottingham: I wonder which one of them will go on to win a Melbourne Cup for another trainer?
Harry is said to be ‘delighted’ to see his ‘ex’, Green Moon, do so well, but I remember Paul Nicholls being not so pleased when his cast-off, Silver Birch, won the Grand National for Gordon Elliott. It happens.
King of the nurseries, Richard Hannon, runs Shiatsu (1.10) but Richard Hughes waits for the BETDAQ meeting at Kempton Park tonight.
4.25 Kempton (Win Big With Betdaq Multiples Median Auction Maiden Stakes): Hughes opening mount, Blank Czech, is one of three down the card wearing headgear for the first time, so you know what kind of race you are in. Or rather, what kind of racing I am staying out of.
4.55 Kempton (Back Or Lay at betdaq.com Handicap): This is more like it. Class-4 quality and a teaser through and through. I used to spot one or two of those leaning against the trainers’ bar at Kempton in the old days.
Hughes catches the eye this time. He’s riding Islesman (8.8) for Heather Main, for whom he is 2-3 this season. Islesman won his first race at Kempton off today’s mark, and his last there in September, Hughesie’s only mount on him.
Inthar was the one seriously backed early doors but, though Saeed Bin Suroor’s stable is hot right now, and Godolphin do well at Kempton, and this meeting, this is not the type of race they win.
6.25 Kempton (Betdaq Mobile Apps Handicap) Italian Riviera, first time in a handicap for Sir Mark Prescott, has the others in the shade in the BETDAQ market, as I write.
But 3.8 for some guesswork didn’t appeal to me. I thought the 9.8 Kampai, another Hughes mount, was a bit big for a lightly raced filly who has shaped the last twice as though this trip were needed.
6.55 Kempton (Congratulations Champion Jockey Richard Huighes Stakes): Her Majesty’s Sequence is an appropriate ride for Hughes in this recognition race after his record-equalling seven winners at Windsor last month.
But this is not an easy contest to win or to bet in: it’s the type of race Godolphin take here, and both their runner, Modun, and Gary Moore’s Nebula Storm have been plying their trade in Group company.
Then there’s a proper sequence in this race: Viking Storm’s hat-trick (he’s four from five). Clearly a horse on the upgrade, trained by Harry Dunlop. Melbourne Cup 2013?
DAQMAN’S BETS
BET 4.4pts win (nap) DORMOUSE (12.50 Warwick)
BET 7.2pts win SEW ON TARGET (2.30 Chepstow)
BET 2.5pts win ISLESMAN (4.55 Kempton)
BET 2.2pts win KAMPAI (6.25 Kempton)
* Daqman stakes his bets to win 20 points. You therefore know the offer he took (divide 20 by the stake).
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