BACK-TO-BACK BANKERS UP! SO THAT’S 20 OUT OF 24: Two winning maximum-stakes bankers in two days, with Wonderful Charm (WON 8-11) yesterday, following Milan Bound (WON 1-2), gave Daqman 20 from 24 over the year for an 83% strike rate and 155 points profit. November’s winning bankers:

WON 8-11 UXIZANDRE
WON 1-5 DOCTOR HARPER
WON 1-2 MILAN BOUND
WON 8-11 WONDERFUL CHARM

DAQMAN AIMS AT HENNESSY BULL AS HE LEADS PRICEWISE 3-0: Daqman is on the oche against Pricewise today, having already aimed his win-50 Bull’s-Eye Bet at the Hennessy with 11.0 Lord Windermere. He adds two more bets today, 3-0 up since the start of his challenge with:

WON 6-1 GEVREY CHAMBERTIN (9.0 on BETDAQ)
WON 5-1 SYDNEY PAGET (7.2 on BETDAQ)
WON 3-1 MORE OF THAT (4.3 on BETDAQ)

11 LAYS UP OUT OF 12: Daqman is 11 lays up out of 12, having been pipped a neck this week for a straight dozen. Now here are his race-by-race Saturday assessments:


1.05 Newcastle I’m taking a punt against the odds-on Oscar Rock, with Tony McCoy on another improver, Ballyalton, who will do even better for the step up in trip on the good ground he loves.

I can get 4.9 Ballyalton on BETDAQ in a two-horse race, with a nervous trainer of Oscar Rock saying after his Wetherby win: ‘We’ll probably go for a slightly better race. The softer the ground the better.’

1.20 Newbury (Fulke Walwyn Trophy) Recent winners Handy Andy and Carrigmorna King are no value at the front of the market, neither of them with solid form, capable of putting back-to-back success together under Rules.

They may be good enough in a race lacking in quality but, if Paul Nicholls still trained Tatenen, he’d be with them in single-figure offers, plummeting from Graded races to this class-3 handicap, 22lb lower than he was hiked after his last success a class higher than today.

DAQMAN’S VERDICT: At 19.0, Tatenen is my Outsider Of The Day, though we need all of that, as his fitness has to be taken on trust. But, if it’s a case of ‘another day’, we should get our money back then, as long as they keep him to this lower level and don’t overface him again.

1.50 and 2.25 Newbury This race produced At Fishers Cross last year, and that one now bids for stardom in the Long Distance Hurdle (2.25) but with Tony McCoy at Newcastle for My Tent Or Yours.

In this 1.50, The Bear Trap, from the same yard, has a chance if it’s deeper than the official ‘soft’ but won first run back last season.

Alan King is talking up Batonnier, progressive at a rate of knots until injured, and 10.5 on BETDAQ this morning is a fair offer about one that can win when fresh.

Gibb River was in similar straits on his recent return but let the side down at Ascot, though he did run well – the moral, giving weight to the winner – when second at Newbury in 2012.

Shotavodkha also likes the course but was too easy to back this morning. Mischeivous Milly ran well behind Fighting Fifth contender Cockney Sparrow.

DAQMAN’S VERDICT: An open race, 8.4 the field on BETDAQ as I rate. With Alan King bullish, and Pricewise also in his camp, the 10.5 Batonnier won’t last. Bet and lay?

At Fishers Cross could well win the Long Distance Hurdle but I’ve always thought that the McCoy partnership was vital, though this race usually goes to the market leader (9 times out of 10 at SP), while they get turned over in the Fighting Fifth.

2.05 Newcastle (Fighting Fifth Hurdle) Is My Tent Or Yours fit enough? Nicky Henderson is already making excuses, after a spate of losing favourites in this race, among them, notoriously, his own Binocular.

But Binocular was no bull of a horse, and he spent most of his career, as an in-and-out performer in small-field races – 12 of his last 14 starts had six or fewer runners – and the last three years of the Fighting Fifth put the whole race into question, with only four or five runners.

This season, it has bounced back with potential for a true-run race from the eight starters, albeit with no natural front-runner.

My Tent Or Yours has been working ‘exuberantly’, has never been out of the first two and never been beaten first run back before, the type of horse to tank his way past good horses, like a two-mile Big Buck’s.

Melodic Rendezvous is a bit old for this (7 out of 9 winners have been under seven) and Cockney Sparrow a bit too young. ‘Rendezvous’ looked strong in his Elite Hurdle defeat of Triumph runner-up, Far West, but that one has let the form down since.

John Quinn tries to do a Countrywide Flame with Cockney Sparrow – ‘Flame’ was the first four-year-old to win this since 1985 – but he still has nearly a stone to find (12lb, in fact), despite his 7lb allowance here.

The forgotten horse of the race is Grumeti, third to Countrywide Flame in the 2012 Triumph and in front of him at Aintree. He had minor injury problems last year but has had a trouble-free run, aimed at today’s race and is big at 14.0 on BETDAQ this morning in a marvelous 102% orange.

DAQMAN’S VERDICT: Alan King has been taking Grumeti to Newbury with the intention of getting him up to attack today, while others have the Christmas Hurdle as the true target. An excellent win-and-place bet at the morning BETDAQ offers.

The way the Press pans this out, My Tent Or Yours could start evens or better, in which case he is a solid saver, despite all reports, and becomes a bet at odds against.

2.40 Newcastle (Rehearsal Chase) Vintage Star is the obvious horse here, as one who keeps his form well and is not penalized for a graduation-chase success over the smart Buddy Bolero.

The likely punt of the race, Baile Anrai has his ground but has lost his way since his novice days and it’ a question of whether blinkers work on him.

Six times out of eight, younger horses win this, but Hey Big Spender – from the Cue Card stable – has slid 16lb down the handicap this year, and has twice won second run back, including this race in 2011, when 10lb higher.

Nicky Richards has won this twice in six seasons but Mister Marker simply doesn’t have the form in the book, 8lb higher for success at Ayr in a class-lower race.

One of Master Of The Hall, Tarquinius and Mister Moss could bounce back but you can’t bet on it, while Ultimate is unlikely to get all his own way over the extra trip and up 8lb.

DAQMAN’S VERDICT: Vintage Star acts on all sorts of ground, and snuffed out Buddy Bolero’s Hennessy hopes at Carlisle last month. Hey Big Spender will have been got up for this bid to repeat his 2011 success off 10lb lower. At around 4.6 each in a 103% BETDAQ orange, I’m backing both.

3.00 Newbury (Hennessy Gold Cup, See ABC Guide, Archive Tuesday) After Grumeti and Batonnier, another Alan King ‘crock’ could make an impact here, but Invictus has been very short, his form based entirely on his 2012 Reynoldstown win over Bob’s Worth and Silviniaco Conti in a poor time for the ground conditions.

This year’s Reynoldstown winner and second, Rocky Creek and Houblon des Obeaux, renew rivalry with ‘Houblon’ having beaten Merry King and Triolo d’Alene at Ascot yet 36.0 to Rocky’s 10.5 this morning, though only 3lb worse off.

That was a big step up by Merry King, who had hitherto won in class 4, but Triolo d’Alene, too fresh at Ascot and better off at the weights today, won the Topham over the National fences and was eased down to win at Huntingdon, despite a penalty.. Up again here but still only six.

This wasn’t his target but he keeps on surprising Nicky Henderson and may still be on the upgrade: 21.0 on BETDAQ, as I write.

Katenko (up 10lb) and Prince Du Beauchene (he’s 10 now) may need mud but Our Father has to be feared, as yet another well placed in the handicap for Team Pipe, which has made a great start to the season.

DAQMAN’S VERDICT: This column is on Lord Windermere from my ABC preview, backed to win 50 points at 11.0. With 103% list of offers in the BETDAQ orange this morning, I can take 10.5 Rocky Creek and 21.0 Triolo d’Alene to make up Team Daqman.

DAQMAN’S BETS (staked to win 30 points except Bull’s-Eye Bets).
BET 7.6pts win (nap) BALLYALTON (1.05 Newcastle)
BET 1.6pts win and place (Outsider of the Day) TATENEN (1.20 Newbury)
BET 3.1pts win BATONNIER (1.50 Newbury)
BET 2.3pts win and place GRUMETI, and 5pts win (stakes saver) MY TENT OR YOURS (2.05 Newbury)
BET 3.5pts win KALANN (2.30 Fairyhouse)
BET 8.3pts win on each VINTAGE STAR and HEY BIG SPENDER (2.40 Newcastle)
BET 3.1pts win ROCKY CREEK and 1.5pts win and place TRIOLO D’ALENE with, ante-post, win-50 Bull’s-Eye Bet: 5pts win LORD WINDERMERE at 11.0 and loss of 1pt win Buddy Bolero (3.00 Newbury)


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