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HEAD-TO-HEAD
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06 May 2011 Football Conference play-off Fleetwood Town 0-2 AFC Wimbledon
05 Feb 2011 Conference Premier AFC Wimbledon 1-0 Fleetwood Town           
18 Jan 2011 Conference Premier Fleetwood Town 1-1 AFC Wimbledon
 
PREVIEW
AFC Wimbledon head into the second leg tie in an excellent position to reach the Blue Square Premier play-off final. A goal either side of half-time at Highbury Stadium means that the job is almost complete, but manager Terry Brown will be reminding his side not to lose focus.

Should Wimbledon reach the final, the side will only be one victory from being a single league apart from their huge rivals MK Dons. The head-to-head record is firmly in the host’s favour and they have conceded just once in three meetings against tonight’s opponents.

The home side come into this clash undefeated in six games and during that impressive run they have won five of those matches. With that, it’s not too difficult to see why Wimbledon are trading as short as 1.83 on the ‘Daq’. 

Fleetwood are not exactly in bad form as they have lost only once in their past six outings. The telling factor here though is that their away results have not been consistent enough. The past six away contests have accumulated eight points from a possible 18.

Even at a short price I’m still inclined to go for a home win, but I also expect there to be goals in this tie. Fleetwood have to go for it from the first whistle and that should make for an open game, it’ll be worth backing over 2.5 goals at around 2.05.

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Back AFC Wimbledon at 1.83: 4 points
Back over 2.5 goals at 2.05: 3 points

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Tuesday’s Return: +6.93 points
 

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Tuesday 26 April

DAQMAN

THE FORGOTTEN HORSES OF THE GUINEAS: Daqman has 20.0 Pathfork, second favourite for Saturday’s 2,000 Guineas. That puts him in a value position but what are the dangers to Pathfork and the favourite, Frankel. Today he looks for the best outsider among the ‘forgotten’ horses.
 
ABC BIG-RACE GUIDES: Look out on Thursday and Friday for his unique ABC guides to all the runners in the 1,000 and the 2,000 Guineas.
 
LAY AFTER LAY FOR DAQMAN: Daqman’s lays sequence continued yesterday when another market leader bit the dust: Carrie’s Magic (3rd 3-1 favourite). There’s another one today.

CASAMENTO (14-1 and 16-1 with bookmakers but 23.0 on Betdaq) This colt is more or less the equal of Pathfork on form and even better than that, according to his former trainer.

It was always on the cards that Godolphin would want him if he shaped up, since his sire, Shamardal, was trained for them by Saeed Bin Suroor to win the French Guineas and Chantilly Derby.

Shape up he certainly did, with his two-year-old-season trainer, Mick Halford, convinced he would still be unbeaten had he been experienced enough when he took on Pathfork in the National Stakes at The Curragh.

Casamento had won on the debut on fast ground but was still ‘a big raw colt’, trying to make all against Pathfork, who had two wins under his belt including the Curragh Futurity over Glor Na Mara and Samuel Morse, who were also in the National Stakes field.

Joining them in the line-up was Zoffany, who had set up a hat-trick of home wins, his only defeat in six starts being sixth in the Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Pathfork went to the front just over two furlongs out on a soft surface for the National Stakes but Casamento came back at him and was closing on the winner with every stride towards the finish.

The pair had drawn clear, with Zoffany five lengths back, followed closely by Samuel Morse but with Glor Na Mara now another five-and-a-half-lengths in arrears.

So it was that the Marble Hill winner, Samuel Morse, was further behind Pathfork than in the Futurity, and Zoffany improved on his Phoenix Stakes form with Glor Na Mara but finished a remote third. The implication was that the front two had improved no end.

That was Pathfork’s last race of the season but Casamento went on to win the Racing Post Trophy – Native Khan fourth – in the footsteps of St Nicholas Abbey, who had then become all the rage for the 2009 Guineas and Derby.

That would mean Casamento topping the markets for this year’s Classics, then? Not a bit of it. He’s nearly three times Pathfork’s price for the Guineas and is quoted in the Derby betting behind Seville, whom he beat threeparts of a length into second in that Racing Post Trophy.

So Casamento hasn’t trained on: is that it? No, that’s not it, if the Derby market can be believed; for, although he’s behind Seville in the betting, he’s prominent at 10-1 and 12-1.

So maybe his stable is badly out of form? That’s another ‘no.’ Mahmood Al Zarooni, who took over from Mick Halford, staged an impressive start to the season, with six winners from 11 runners between April 13 and 24.

No, the answer seems to be that Casamento is reckoned a Derby horse. Yet past markets would have considered his two-year-old form made him favourite for the Guineas, and his sire was capable of winning both Guineas and Derby, albeit in France.

FURY (14-1 and 16-1 with bookmakers but 24.0 on Betdaq): My editor says Fury is hardly a ‘forgotten horse’, since he’s raced only twice and is officially rated just 103 against Frankel’s 126.

But he’s certainly forgotten by punters in this Guineas market, and perhaps they have forgotten that his trainer, William Haggas, produced Shaamit in similar circumstances to win the Derby first time out in 1996.

Shammit, too, had run just twice, in fact in class 4 and 5 maidens, compared with Fury’s class-2 conditions race win in the Tattersalls Millions Trophy last October. The second and third had already won two each, the third, Formosina, having run Samuel Morse to a short-head at The Curragh.

Fourth, fifth and sixth were Measuring Time, Questioning and Auld Burns, who filled the first three in another Tattersalls Millions at Newmarket earlier this month, with Measuring Time and Auld Burns subsequently second and third in the Sandown Classic Trial on Saturday.

Fury is potentially in the Classic swim, if needing to improve. Look back, you’ll see that I put him in my horses-to-follow list (the trainer thinks he’s a Jersey Stakes horse) and he seems certain to repay your interest through the season.

But the verdict on the Guineas has to be that Casamento is wrongly priced today for the first colts’ Classic and, with my 20.0 Pathfork now in to 9.2, the book of offers on Betdaq is underround for me, and I can afford a supplementary entry into my betting log: Casamento at 23.0.

DAQMAN’S BETS
BET 6.8pts win MOONE’S MY NAME (2.40 Yarmouth)
BET 7.4pts win MISS MIRACLE (3.50 Exeter)
BET 3.2pts win MATA KERANJANG and 2.7pts win (saver) ASRAAB (4.10 Yarmouth)
LAY to win 10pts MOTIRANI and BET 10pts win CORR POINT (5.10 Yarmouth)
BET 2.4pts win and place COOL BARANCA (6.10 Sedgefield)
ANTE-POST: BET 1.3pts win CASAMENTO at 23.0 (2,000 Guineas, Newmarket, Saturday).

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20 Nov 2010 Premier League Arsenal 2-3 Tottenham
21 Sep 2010 Carling Cup Tottenham 1-4 Arsenal
14 Apr 2010 Premier League Tottenham 2-1 Arsenal
31 Oct 2009 Premier League Arsenal 3-0 Tottenham
08 Feb 2009 Premier League Tottenham 0-0 Arsenal
29 Oct 2008 Premier League Arsenal 4-4 Tottenham
22 Jan 2008 Carling Cup Tottenham 5-1 Arsenal
09 Jan 2008 Carling Cup Arsenal 1-1 Tottenham
22 Dec 2007 Premier League Arsenal 2-1 Tottenham
15 Sep 2007 Premier League Tottenham 1-3 Arsenal
 
PREVIEW
Having had their feet up at the weekend, Spurs will be well-rested when they welcome Arsenal to White Hart Lane. And it is a game they can look forward to with confidence after their remarkable triumph at the Emirates back in November last year.

That result means Spurs are on the verge of a first league double over their fierce rivals since the inaugural season of the Premier League era back in 1992/93 and they look good to get it, despite being underdogs for this mouthwatering clash.

Arsenal might arrive in N17 with the best away record in the division, but morale will have been dented by Liverpool’s late, late equaliser on Sunday. Even though last night’s result at St James’s Park has improved their title chances, the Gunners are still seven points behind Manchester United and as long as 9.4 on the Daq in the Premier League outright market.

The hosts won this fixture last season and need another triumph to keep alive ambitions of a top-four finish. Spurs look better value at 2.96 on Betdaq than Arsenal at 2.58.

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Spurs at around 2.96: 4 points

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Tuesday’s Return: -6.00 points
 

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