YES, FIVE WINNING DAYS IN A ROW: Daqman landed back-to-back naps yesterday when he followed up Galileo Gold (WON 10-11) with a banker on Tamadhor (WON 9-10) to make it five winning days on the trot. An update on his bankers is recorded in his column.

85 POINTS PROFIT: NOW FOR 100: His two winners from three bets yesterday – the other one Express Himself (WON 11-8) – takes him to 85 points profit in the five days, and today could top the 100. His winners since Saturday included:

WON 10-1 Un Temps Pour Tout
WON 9-1 Dawn’s Early Light
WON 7-1 Postulation
WON 7-2 Stravagante
WON 13-8 Golden Horn (gold banker)
WON 10-11 Galileo Gold (nap)
WON 11-8 Express Himself
WON 9-10 Tamadhor (banker)

LOOK OUT AT ASCOT: Daqman has some more wise words about Royal Ascot as the big meeting gets ever closer. His nap today is at Newbury, where he also picks a 17.0 outsider.


SEVEN WINNING BANKERS LANDED OUT OF 10

KEY TO THE STAKES: For the sake of clarity before Royal Ascot, bankers are now divided into 10-point stakes (like yesterday’s); then silver is 20 points, gold 30 and diamond 40 points win. These are the last 10 bankers.

WON 8-13 Telescope (gold)
WON 8-13 Soapy Aitken (silver)
WON 4-5 Yorkidding (silver)
WON 2-5 Gleneagles (diamond)
2ND 1-1 Giovanni Canaletto (silver)
WON 11-10 Leaderene (silver)
2ND 1-1 Limato (silver)
4TH 4-7 Mexican Gold
WON 13-8 Golden Horn (gold)
WON 9-10 Tamadhor


DON’T BE TEMPTED TOO EARLY IN HUNT CUP

ROYAL ASCOT HANDICAPS

ROYAL HUNT CUP: Hold your horses, and wait for BETDAQ offers! Ante-post betting with the bookies on this, one of the top Flat handicaps of the season, is a lottery until we have a better idea of Wednesdays’ runners.

I marked one down long ago – and so did her trainer, Roger Charlton, it seems –as unbeaten at Ascot over the straight mile and perfectly placed in the handicap on 8st 12lb.

Snag is that Temptress is number 43 where only 28 can run, so it’s Roger and out, unless we get a bevy of defections.

Temptress is a four-year-old, and that age group won five Hunt Cups in a row (2007-11), only to lose the plot since, with older horses winning the last three.

Those three winners were rated 97, 100 and 101, so it could still happen for Temptress, who races off 98. Abseil (99) is also in the 97-101 parameter but all others at the top of the current bookmaker markets are rated higher.

All that is, except Lightning Spear, who is 12-1 joint second favourite in one big firm’s list. Yet he is number 54 in the field, so needs almost half the current probables to drop out. Now what was I saying about holding your horses.

WOKINGHAM STAKES: By the time Saturday’s Ascot finale is run, we should have plenty of information about the effects of the draw during the week. And don’t we need it!

The race goes to horses aged four and five (they’ve won 15-2 in the last 17 years), and the winning stables reads like a who’s-who of the cunningmost, winningmost handicap trainers in the business: Balding, Fahey, Fanshawe, Haggas, Morrison, Noseda. How can we lose!

Answer: ignore the draw at your peril. If, as often happens, there’s a high-stall bias, you could get results like the last two years, and again wish you had waited before plunging ante-post.

The 2014 result by stall was: 27, 18, 12, 25, 20, 29, 31. And the matching first seven the year before was: 22, 18, 15, 29, 19, 21, 30.


JOURNEY TRAVELING IN THE BETDAQ MARKET

2.20 Newbury Team Hannon has played a pair of aces to land this two-year-old maiden in the last three seasons: Toronado and Estidhkaar.

But the sires of Papa Luigi (first foal of his dam) and Madrinho haven’t been all that successful, and none in the entire field has big-race entries.

Mithqaal (7.8 on BETDAQ as I write) takes the eye on breeding and his Barry Hills stable is in cracking form.

2.50 Newbury John Gosden has won divisions of this three times in four years, and the gallant Journey’s 7.4 (some small liquidity on BETDAQ this morning) was much too big, with La Boheme seeking a handicap mark for next time and Gold Sands failing to see out this trip on the last day, albeit in Listed company.

Journey went down only narrowly at Goodwood last month to Speedy Boarding (pair six lengths clear). Since Speedy Boarding is disputing favouritism for the Listed Ballymacoll (next race), Journey must be a standout in this.

Even as I write, Journey is in to 4.5 but in a 108% orange, which spells value for the discerning punter who can expect around 117% Total SP.

3.25 Newbury (Ballymacoll Stakes) Encore l’Amour, Speedy Boarding and Namhroodah are the only ones backed. The Oaks result might help.

Encore l’Amour was a little over three lengths behind Oaks third Lady of Dubai at Goodwood. Namroodah was earlier well beaten by Oaks fifth, Jazzi Top.

Speedy Boarding would be a wee bit boosted if Journey won the first but I have to leave a modicum win and place on Victoria Pollard (17.0 on BETDAQ early mouse), talked up to me so strongly early on that I had a pound on her for the 1,000 Guineas before she flopped in her Chester trial. Last-chance saloon.

5.35 Newbury Automotive’s two recent runs should have primed him to land the hat-trick in this gentleman’s race, yet I could take 5.0 in the orange.

6.50 Haydock (Betdaq.com Serious About Horses Apprentice Training Series Handicap) Callum Shepherd, who has a near-30% strike rate on AW, can have his first success on turf tonight with last year’s winner, Nolecce, 6.8 offers taken.


BIG BOOKIES BOWLED OUT BY CHINAMAN

How to bet and win? Ron Pollard seemed master of his own luck and strategy. Ladbrokes’ Man so often had a different answer, whether he was laying the odds on the birth of twins, the Booker Prize, the General Election or the Boat Race.

As an eager journalist, I tried to learn more about his secret. But Ron’s straight and genuine response floored me, and – like his odds predictions – gave me a new and instant respect for the man.

Acting on a tip off, I began to steer the conversation round to spiritual matters. ‘Oh, I know what you want to know,’ he said.

‘Well, the fact is I always consult. I have a Chinaman just over my left shoulder who always puts me right.’ He was deadly serious.

Ever after that, when I called Ron up on a story, say about the Derby betting, I would ask him: ‘What does the Chinaman think about the Derby?”

Ron would turn the whole thing on its head: ‘I’ve no need to ask him,’ he’d say. If it had been this year’s race, he would have prompted me directly, without hedging: ‘Golden Horn will win; no problem.’

That will be Ron’s last Derby. At 89, he had a good innings. Not many of the other top men among the other big bookies survived long enough to remember the Chinaman who clean bowled them with his odds.

DAQMAN’S BETS (staked 1 to 9)
BET 5pts win MITHQAAL (2.20 Newbury)
BET 8pts win (nap) JOURNEY (2.50 Newbury)
BET 7pts win ENCORE L’AMOUR, and 1pt win and place VICTORIA POLLARD (3.25 Newbury)
BET 5pts win AUTOMOTIVE (5.35 Newbury)
BET 4pts win NOLECCE (6.50 (Haydock)


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