NINE MORE BIG WINS: 152 POINTS: You can’t win ‘em all! But Daqman went close to doing so yet again yesterday. After earning 237 points from 20 wins Tuesday to Thursday, and with his nap up on Friday, he made 152 points from NINE more winning bets yesterday.
31 SUCCESSFUL BETS IN FIVE DAYS: That brings his total since Tuesday to 31, including seven doubles and two trebles. He won three races out of three in Daq Multiples yesterday, with the treble part of the bet coming to just short of 20-1.
8-1 STRIKE AS PRICEWISE TRAILS AGAIN: He is quickly stretching away from Pricewise of the Racing Post as they match value bets in the feature races, taking him apart again yesterday with 8-1 Ch’TBello. The scores are now 11-4 to Daqman with the season less than a month old, 308-120 overall.
TWO NAPS OUT OF TWO, ONE A BANKER: It was his third 8-1 winner in the five days. Here are yesterday’s scorers, which included two naps out of two, one of them a banker:
WON 8-1 Ch’TBello
WON 11-2 Le Mercurey (from 10.5 on BETDAQ)
WON 3-1 Dartmouth
WON 9-4 Vivaldo Collonges (Jumps nap)
WON 4-7 Tasleet (Flat banker nap)
74 ENTRIES IN MULLINS v NICHOLLS BATTLE
There are 57 champion chances. That’s how many entries Paul Nicholls has up to the moment at Sandown on Saturday evening when the fat lady sings. Willie Mullins has 17.
It’s still an unprecedented assault by Mullins on Perth, Taunton and Warwick, the Wednesday, Thursday, Friday meetings in England he normally wouldn’t consider. But the title is at stake.
The top talent show by two great trainers could go all the way to the wire in the Sandown Gold Cup when Mullins has five possible runners; Nicholls could field nine.
Taking the Scottish National stats at face value in my ABC guide eliminated the trump card, Vicente, that put the champion back in the game. It happens when you have to sift from a dozen likely winners.
Vicente broke all the rules. He is only seven. Had only seven chases on his CD. And he carried more than 11st. So he would have commanded only a dozen words at the bottom of the list.
Four of the first six in the final market fell or were pulled up. And the result was no last-minute Ditcheat reinforcement in the battle for the trainers’ title. Vicente had been laid out for the race all season.
For the fourth time recently, the prep race for the winner was the NH Chase at Cheltenham. Change those stats, Daqman! Don’t forget the half-life of facts as the mad scientists call it; that they are a moveable feast.
2.25 Wincanton The Ditcheat bandwagon starts rolling today with a long-odds-on favourite, Zubayr. But, as we’ve seen, winners are winners, and useful leverage in Daq Multiples.
Nicholls runs only novices at the entire meeting, and the same all day at Newton Abbot tomorrow. Are these among the contingent he has nominated as ‘a strong set of youngsters for next season?’
2.55 Wincanton One day soon Neil Mulholland could be challenging for the trainers’ title. His burgeoning Bath yard hit a flat spot last month but landed a hat-trick midweek.
Five of Ashcott Boy’s wins have come going left-handed and he’s 13lb higher than for his last win in senior company.
The supposed second string, Perfect Timing, goes well fresh and has the senior jockey on board, but has been waiting for a sound surface. Certainly the ground is drying in the morning sunshine, though the forecast goings (‘good to soft’ here) all have to be taken with a pinch of salt. The weather, and poor interpretation of its effect on the ground, is the curse of computer betting.
Nevertheless, Perfect Timing looks huge at 26.0 in the BETDAQ orange as an early position. The ground may be a bit dead for him but he’s sure to be winning soon and first time is the likely day.
3.30 Wincanton Another who goes well fresh, Bennachie, is with Tim Vaughan, one of the leading hurdles trainers on this course – second only to Nicholls –with a 27% strike rate.
Bennachie is 21.0 in a poor field, though we should watch the market in case of support for one of the novices.
4.05 Wincanton Bun Doran is an in-and-out perfomer who runs best in a bog. His front-running style is not suited to this deceptive track.
Emerging Talent needs to go right-handed. He’s has been a bit headstrong, too, but has Bun Doran’s to settle behind, and won’t mind the dying ground. Banker for Nicholls.
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked 1 to 9 for strength; 10 would be a banker)
BET 1pt win and place PERFECT TIMING (2.55 Wincanton)
BET 1pt win and place BENNACHIE (3.30 Wincanton)
BANKER: BET 10pts win (nap) EMERGING TALENT (4.05 Wincanton)
DAQ MULTIPLES: 4 x 1pt win trebles and 1pt acca the three above with Zubayr (2.25 Wincanton)
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