ACLAIM FOR DAQMAN NAPS HAT-TRICK: Daqman is the naps king of racing. After landing three super naps – from just three selections – his daily nap bet has also landed the hat-trick, thanks to the aptly named Aclaim (WON 3-1) yesterday.
WON 5-2 LAGOSTOVEGAS (Thursday)
WON 6-4 HEARTACHE (Friday)
WON 3-1 ACLAIM (Saturday)
Aclaim took him further ahead of Pricewise of the Racing Post in their value challenge. The scores are now 75-16 to Daqman, who goes 316 points clear.
BIG-ODDS ANTE-POST ON THE ARC: Daqman is trying to build his own Arc ‘book’, an ante-post situation which will give him an underround on the race. He already has a 10.0 bet and now adds one at 22.0. Look out in the next two days for:
Cambridgeshire gambles
The man who wins the Ayr Gold Cup at 25-1 and 20-1 (twice)
BETDAQ 22.0 CAPRI THE ARC VALUE
More Arc value on BETDAQ. All eyes are on Cracksman, with 10.0 taken by this column on BETDAQ. He arguably should have beaten Capri in the Irish Derby but didn’t have the best of rides and went down a neck.
Now, if you are trying to win this Arc as a race, the new value to bolster your ante-post wallet is to take a bit of Capri, a 22.0 offer despite his massive performance in yesterday’s St Leger.
‘The Lads’ will decide whether he runs, says Aidan O’Brien of Capri’s owners. Capri is as short as 9-1 and 12-1 with some layers.
We were so close in the Leger with Crystal Ocean, who just didn’t have enough lung left at the end of a hell-for-leather final mile, the race dictated all the way by the Ballydoyle brigade. It became a very searching test.
John Gosden will send the Leger third, Stradivarius, back up in trip for the Champions Day two-miler and Coronet (fifth and not disgraced) goes for the Fillies and Mares on the same Champions Day card at Ascot in October.
Forget Defoe’s lack-lustre performance. He didn’t run his race. If I were Roger Varian, I would put him away until next year.
So Ballydoyle were winners again. How they must toast the painting over the fireplace chez O’Brien, with three more of the five English Classics this season now down to progeny of Galileo.
All five are descended from the Sadlers Wells line. If you can just find a seam, goldmining becomes a pleasant pastime.
THE BEAR CAN FLY IN AT FFOS LAS
2.00 Ffos Las It’s been a rough ride to reach a handicap, but Dark Freedom (6.4 on BETDAQ) finally gets the three-runs-and-in start to a nursery campaign.. minus a bit of tackle that would have been vital in years to come!
But there’ll be no stud career for the son of Canford Cliffs, with the excuses (‘ran green’, ‘lost place’, ‘heavy ground’) not convincing enough for Charlie Hills, who has a 40% strike rate with two-year-olds on this course.
Dark Freedom’s nursery debut will also be his first run since the gelding op. It’s his first run, too, with star boy rider Calum Shepherd up. Don’t sulk, Dark Freedom: you still get your (Canadian) oats!
3.30 Ffos Las It’s also handicap debut day for The Bear Can Fly, making the journey from West Sussex for another trainer, David Menuisier, with a 40% strike rate, this time with three-year-olds and upwards. In his favour a high draw in stall 10. Betdaq 3.9 offers.
4.30 Ffos Las Eve Johnson Houghton is leading percentage trainer with runners today, having an amazing run (six winners in nine days) for a small stable, and she could get Pondering back on track here. His in-and-out form (1414) suggests a win is due.
But, if you examine those results more closely, you find you can put down defeats into fourth place to firm ground, which he hates, and Chepstow, which he hates even more. Pondering has several more engagements this week so this placing is significant. Big at 9.4 on BETDAQ
4.45 Bath David Egan is 75% riding for Michael Attwater and 2-2 on the stable’s 6.2 BETDAQ offer Our Lord, who could resume winning ways here with the bottom eight horses out of the handicap.
Showmethewayavrilo is a pound lower than when runner-up in this contest last year but has twice finished behind Our Lord this season. Storm Melody is an offputting 1-19, despite being the win being this race last year.
Storm Melody and Pixieleen) are top-of-the ground horses and Seamster may have lost some speed at the age of 10.
The Attwater-Egan team could be going for a double here if hat-trick seeker Delegate Thjis Lord (3.15) takes t to an easier surface, ut with ‘a few showers’ forecast. Hard to tell.
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked to win 20)
BET 4pts win DARK FREEDOM (2.00 Ffos Las)
BET 7pts win (nap) THE BEAR CAN FLY (3.30 Ffos Las)
BET 2.5pts win PONDERING (4.30 Ffos Las)
BET 4pts win OUR LORD (4.45 Bath)
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