Category: DAQMAN

LOOK OUT FOR A DAQMAN DERBY OUTSIDER TOMORROW: Daqman today delves into the debate about team tactics and jockeys’ instructions, and finds that Aidan O’Brien and Ryan Moore are likely to be ordering the champagne after Epsom tomorrow. Or is that the version they want you to think? Whether or not it satisfies the conspiracy theorists, Daqman will have an outsider against the field tomorrow. Watch this space.

WHY SUNDAY’S CORAL-ECLIPSE LOOKS TRICKY: Enable is back on Sunday but is it the Enable of 13 wins in 15 starts? Daqman looks ahead to a tricky Coral-Eclipse, with words of warning from John Gosden. It’s all part of a library of form and facts on the big weekend races prepared for punters free in this column.

BACK-TO-BACK DAQMAN NAPS UP BUT OUTSIDER NOSED OUT AT 16-1: Daqman landed back-to-back naps with a winner at Doncaster yesterday which he feared would be odds on, but there was evens available on BETDAQ in the morning and the SP was 5-6. But luck had been against him earlier when Indie Angel (2ND 16-1) was a winner on the nod before the line and again after it but Notforalongtime had his head down where it mattered and won by a nose. Daqman won’t get over that, not for a long time!

AND THE DAQMAN WINNERS WENT IN TWO BY TWO.. It’s Derby week and Daqman landed two winning bets for the second day running yesterday for a profit each day and an overall 30.35 on the two days:

STRONG DOUBLE FOR DAQMAN GIVES HIM A PROFIT ON THE DAY: Daqman made a profit on the day yesterday with two winners, one each at the Curragh and at Windsor. Today he starts the week with three bets and takes on two favourites.

COUNTDOWN STARTS TOMORROW TO ANOTHER O’BRIEN DERBY? All who dared oppose Aidan O’Brien were out for the count last night (1-2-3-4!) as Ballydoyle took the first four places in the Irish Derby. Tomorrow another countdown begins, as Daqman checks out the chances of O’Brien being beaten in the Epsom Derby next weekend.

O’BRIEN TRIES TO HIT THE IRISH DERBY FOR SIX: It’s Derby Day at last but, in a Classic twist, it’s at a wet and closed-door Curragh not at Epsom; that one comes next week. So the strength of today’s race is in doubt, though the strength, numerically, of Aidan O’Brien’s squad of six could take him to a 14th victory. Daqman prefers a win and place on an opponent already with Classic form.

WHAT IS THE ‘UNUSUAL’ IRISH DERBY THREAT TO SANTIAGO? Aidan O’Brien yesterday declared his number one for tomorrow’s Irish Derby: Queen’s Vase winner Santiago, the choice of Seamie Heffernan, but he hinted at a possible shock when he added: ‘It’s an unusual season and unusual things could happen.’ Daqman’s analysis of the runners in BETDAQ Tips tomorrow will search for an ‘unusual’ result from the best outsider.

9-4 NAP STRIKES AS DAQMAN WINS THE DEBATE: It was not quite midnight but the end of a long day nevertheless when Daqman’s reasoned arguments paid off twice in 25 minutes yesterday, opposing beaten 5-4 favourite, Vitare, at Windsor, and then napping a big-value Midnights Legacy (WON 9-4) at Haydock. There were no excuses for Vitare’s previous defeat and Midnight’s Legacy could defy a penalty for the step up in trip with his stable in cracking form. Bang on the button twice.

ANTE-POST CAR CRASH OF ‘UNKNOWNS’ IN THE IRISH DERBY: The ante-post book for the Irish Derby goes out of the window as, with one or two exceptions, a squad of unknowns is declared for Saturday’s Classic which this year comes before the Epsom Derby. Thereby hangs a tale, says Daqman. A new market was formed last night.

YESTERDAY’S WINNER: Daqman landed his nap, A Star Above (WON 5-6) at Thirsk yesterday. Three bets today including a Beverley NAP.