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DAQMAN on Thursday

Thursday 8 April DAQMAN? DARING DAQMAN IN JACKPOT MOOD FOR AINTREE: Daqman dares three jackpot bets on the opening day at Aintree but is not in such a hurry as some to lay the short-priced favourites. 16 FESTIVAL LAYS IN A ROW: The man who laid 16 consecutive losing favourites at Cheltenham Festivals is planning five lays this week to bring his total to 500 since the column began. There’s one today, and he wants them all to count to maintain his overall strike-rate of 76%. 120 POINTS PROFIT: ? After a winning streak of 120 points profit from Easter week, Daqman marks your card for every Aintree race at the three-day meeting. Remember the invincibles at Cheltenham? Both got ‘beat’! Now, for Dunguib and Kauto Star at the Festival, we could read Big Buck’s and Imperial Commander at Aintree today. But it’s never that simple, is it, or the layers would all retire with fortunes as big as a banker’s bonus

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Apr 15, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

DAQMAN on Saturday

Saturday 10 April DAQMAN? DAQMAN FINDS THE DRAMA IN THE NATIONAL: There’s a boys’-own story and a triumph over adversity all in one in Daqman’s Grand National winner, just the sort of drama the big race throws up year after year. HE’S DONE IT AGAIN WITH THREE HOT LAYS IN A ROW: Daqman is gunning for two more favourites, which will bring his total to 500 lays since the column began at an amazing 76% success rate. He has three in a row at Aintree this week: Sanctuaire (3rd 13-8), Menorah (2nd 7-4) and Forpadydeplasterer (2nd 4-1). Now, to cap his 500, he’s trying to dispose of joint favourites in the same race!? 9-1 WINNER FOR A PROFIT ON THE DAY: He made a profit on the second day at Aintree of 18 points, with six returns, including Wayward Prince (won 9-1). How to pick the Grand National winner? It’s easy: just try to spot a dramatic story in advance. It has one every year

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Apr 10, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Timeform 1-2-3: April 4th

Having posted a 7 point profit to Betfair SP from just 3 selections on Saturday the Timeform Free Form Service offer three of the best for Easter Sunday’s action. Although open, this race is nowhere near as competitive as Newbury, and Lord Singer is also able to race off a 2 lb lower mark At Plumpton, the progressive Lord Singer (3.30) can prove music to punters’ ears. He has done really well for Gary Moore since arriving from France, winning at this track and at Fontwell, and running creditably when upped in grade at Newbury last week.

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Apr 04, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Can Paul Nicholls finally win the Grand National at Aintree?

Whilst much focus will be on Tony McCoy’s fifteenth attempt to win the Grand National, another who will have to share some of that particular unwanted limelight is Paul Nicholls, who has yet to saddle a winner of the Aintree showpiece from forty-four runners. “Minnehoma in 1994 for Martin (Pipe), followed fourteen years later by son David’s Comply Or Die, makes it ‘Pond House 2-0 Manor Farm’, a scoreline Nicholls will surely be desperate to make inroads into.” There’s been an unmistakable shifting of the sands in the last five seasons as regards the dominant force in National Hunt racing. Where once Team Pipe carried all before them, both numerically and in terms of prize-money, Paul Nicholls now very much sets the benchmarks . What’s more, the strength in depth at Ditcheat is increasing seemingly year on year; last season’s Trainer’s Championship was Nicholls’ fourth on the bounce, and his most clear-cut yet, finishing over £1.3 million clear of nearest pursuer Nicky Henderson. Nicholls’ credentials don’t end with those statistics, either. Four Cheltenham Gold Cups (See More Business, Denman and dual-winner Kauto Star) accompany three Queen Mother Champion Chases (Call Equiname and Master Minded twice) and two World Hurdles (Big Buck’s), not to mention numerous other Grade 1 prizes on both sides of the Irish Sea

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Apr 01, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Horseracing Betting Briefing March 28 to April 3: First of the classic trials

The flat season has begun and with the Guineas meeting at Newmarket just over a month away, some Classic hopefuls will be getting a run out this week.

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Mar 27, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Pattern Race Focus: Newbury Mares Finals Day

One of the racing highlights in the lull between Cheltenham and Aintree, especially if you happen to be a small breeder, is the Newbury card which features the finals of the Mares’ EBF Series over both hurdles and fences. Rory Delargy analyses both races. “ Over Sixty is another to have gone through her short chase career unbeaten to date and there are reasons to believe the handicapper hasn’t got a hold of her yet as she has qualified for this event by winning three ordinary events in quick succession.” This meeting has been helped greatly by the fact that both mares’ races are now handicaps and take place on the same card, although that has been to the detriment of the once excellent Uttoxeter raceday immediately after the Cheltenham Festival. Northern Racing’s loss is Newbury’s gain however. The European Breeders’ Fund/Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association Mares’ Novices’ Chase Final at 13:45 looks a pretty decent renewal in which the majority of the field have shown a preference to race prominently so it looks likely to be run at a decent pace and should produce a true result in consequence. The likely favourite is Nicky Henderson’s Carole’s Legacy who finished an excellent runner-up in the David Nicholson Mares race at the Festival, albeit over the smaller obstacles

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Mar 27, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Newbury Placepot: Friday 26th March

Once bitten, twice shy! Having ended up on the wrong side of the old ‘take one, or take all?’ conundrum in Ludlow’s four-runner novice chase yesterday, a slightly more conservative approach is adopted at Newbury today in the hope of getting back this week’s losses. “ Sir Kezbaah looks tight enough in the market for win purposes, though he’s ideal for a ‘pot’ given his front-running style lends itself to a ‘hands and heels’ race.” 1.50 – Only Pendower has the ability to get close to Anquetta , but the latter has the benefit of experience and recent action, so banking on the Henderson runner looks the way to go. 2.20 – Hardly any of these look sure to show their form, but Wee Robbie and Carlitos have more to recommend them than most and at least one of them should feature, the former well handicapped and a possible win play for what it’s worth.

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Mar 26, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
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