NOW IT’S FIVE! DAQMAN NAPS KEEP ON WINNING Daqman went 102 points up in five days when Ribble Valley (WON 5-6) landed his fifth consecutive nap by five lengths in the bumper at Ayr yesterday. It was also his fifth consecutive supernap.
The last five naps
WON 10-11 REETH
WON 4-1 TEDHAM
WON 11-8 THE TWO AMIGOS
WON 1-1 GIVEN CHOICE
WON 5-6 RIBBLE VALLEY
The last five supernaps
WON 5-4 LET RIP
WON 8-13 APPLE’S JADE
WON 10-11 REETH
WON 1-1 GIVEN CHOICE
WON 5-6 RIBBLE VALLEY
FULL CHELTENHAM HORSES-TO-FOLLOW RACES: Today Daqman reveals the Cheltenham entries for his horses to follow, become Fortune Cookies for the festival and beyond. They have already made more than 500 points profit along the way through the trials. This week is the first acceptance stage and, as we saw in his column yesterday, bookies odds and BETDAQ offers are now worth comparing.
IT’S A QUESTION OF RELYING ON RYAN MOORE: Daqman calls on Ryan Moore to land his sixth consecutive nap but it’s a moderate day, with otherwise low stakes, and his headlines all have question marks!
DAQMAN’S FESTIVAL FORTUNE COOKIES
Daqman’s horses to follow list becomes his Fortune Cookies for the festivals. They have neatly produced 22 engagements at Cheltenham, as follows:
ANGEL’S BREATH (Supreme Novice Hurdle)
CHAMP (Ballymore Novices Hurdle or Albert Bartlett)
CHARBEL (Ryanair Chase) may run Saturday
CLAN DES OBEAUX (Cheltenham Gold Cup)
ELDORADO ALLEN (Supreme Novices Hurdle)
ELEGANT ESCAPE (Cheltenham Gold Cup)
FRODON (Cheltenham Ryanair Chase)
LALOR (Cheltenham Arkle Challenge Trophy)
LAURINA (Champion Hurdle or Mares Hurdle)
LE PREZIEN (Grand Annual)
LOSTINTRANSLATION (JLT Novice Chase)
MIDNIGHT SHADOW (Stayers Hurdle)
NATIVE RIVER (Cheltenham Gold Cup)
POLITOLOGUE (Ryanair Chase or Cheltenham Gold Cup)
PRESENTING PERCY (Cheltenham Gold Cup)
ROCKPOINT (Albert Bartlett Novice Hurdle)
THE WORLD’S END (RSA Novices Chase)
VERDANA BLUE (Cheltenham Champion Hurdle)
Also: BOYHOOD, FIDUX, MISSED APPROACH, PALMERS HILL, ROCK THE KASBAH, RONS DREAM, SHARJAH, WARRIORS TALE
Profit-and-loss audit (on all horses to follow so far, including those deleted from previous lists) to 20-point level stakes: +566.76
START OF THE FIBONACCI SEQUENCE?
2.30 Lingfield John Gosden has had three winners since Boxing Day and Court House, an easy scorer here a year or so ago, has had a recent run and receives weight from his rival.
Narrowly beaten at Newmarket by the ‘Ascot Derby’ winner, Old Persian, and jockey Robert Havlin is currently leading Flat jockey, percentage wise in the last fortnight.
2.45 Doncaster Going back to Misty For Me and Fasliyev on the dam’s side, Fibonacci is a big, strong sort, much better than the bare form, and Alan King has had four winners since the turn of the year.
Class 3 on the Flat (a winner for Hugo Palmer) compared with his stablemate Outofthequestion’s class 5, ‘he’ was not fancied first two runs (at 25-1 and 40-1) after being gelded.
Have a pound on early at around 17.0 on BETDAQ and hope he doesn’t go the Fibonacci way from 17.0 to 17.0 to 27.0, 37.0, 57.00, 87.00 (That’s enough maths – Ed).
WILL STYLE DE GARDE MAKE A FUSS?
2.55 Taunton Horses make fools of men. I remember one of mine, head in his chest first circuit at Market Rasen but virtually pulled up when he was ‘asked’ towards the business end of the race, hanging his off fore like a lame dog when the whip was drawn.
The jockey got off as quickly as he could, thinking the beast had broken something but his mount then proceeded to walk calmly away, as if to say ‘fooled ya!’
Style De Garde didn’t get that far. He decided on a less subtle approach at Hereford, where he’d won the previous month(!): he ducked when the tapes went up and ran out.
He’s usually very keen but so, too, are Gwalia and Totterdown, and the pace dispute between the three could bring out the stamina in Not That Fuisse, who steps up in trip, and gets almost a stone from Style De Garde.
Delete his Cheltenham efforts and his first run back, and his form on conventional tracks is 112 since this time last year.
RYAN MOORE FOR SIXTH SUPERNAP?
3.15 Doncaster The ground is right for Laugharne to attempt a transition to fences, but he’ll larn a lot from the race.
He has to give a stone to established chaser Fifty Shades, who also likes the good ground (and no doubt responds well to the whip!): BETDAQ 4.2 taken. The Christian Williams stable is four from nine in the last fortnight and he is leading trainer at this time of year.
Plantagenet has to carry a penalty and is among several front-runners I fancy catching on the better ground today.
6.15 Kempton While The Lads were making their millions, Mrs Doreen Tabor had a hat-trick at a lower level with Cenotaph.
The sequence was interrupted when Ryan Moore was doing duty elsewhere but he’s back today and the horse goes well fresh.
Corinthia Knight (BETDAQ 3.6) beat Danzan at the late-January Kempton meeting a year ago but has to give weight to him here, though was the only one backed against Cenotaph (1.92).
Both like to lead or race prominently and a duel upfront would make it easier for Cenotaph to wait on them and pounce.
DAQMAN’S BETS
2.45 Doncaster (win 20)
BET 1.25pts win and place FIBONACCI
2.55 Taunton (win 10)
BET 5pts win NOT THAT FUISSE
3.15 Doncaster (win 10)
BET 3pts win FIFTY SHADES
6.15 Kempton (supernap)
BET 20pts win CENOTAPH
DAQ MULTIPLES
BET 8pt win double
COURT HOUSE (2.30 Lingfield)
CENOTAPH (6.15 Kempton)
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