10-1 HIT, SUPERNAP & DOUBLE WHAMMY IN ONE DAY: Daqman is a past master of picking winners and making a profit and the horse of that name was one of four successful bets of all descriptions for a 60-point bonanza yesterday, including his supernap and a double whammy, in which he picked the winner and laid the favourite in the same race.
WON 10-1 FONDEST
WON 11-10 PAST MASTER (supernap)
WON 4-1 MJJACK
WON (lay) SO BELOVED (3RD 11-10)
33-1 CAMBRIDGESHIRE BET MUST WIN IN THE MUD: Daqman is already on a 33-1 shot for the Cambridgeshire which runs for the Queen today in a depleted field for the 4.45 Haydock, where rain has turned the ground soft, heavy in places. So it is that Daqman concentrates on Ascot, where there are entirely different conditions (good to firm ground, weather forecast sunny).
WELCOME TO 4.0 OFFERS ON BETDAQ
2.40 Ascot With last year’s winner Great Hall out, What A Welcome – winner of six out of seven handicaps – is top weight. The worry is not the weight but that his sole defeat was here at Ascot: 4.0 offers on BETDAQ help.
Ryan Moore was superb on my nap yesterday, judging a front-running ride to perfection, and may elect to try the same trick on You’re Hired.
The worries this time is that the five-year-old hasn’t won for two years, and that trainer Amanda Perrett is missing strike with form figures of 23232 among nine runners this month, four of them losing favourites, two at odds on.
Three-year-olds (represented today by Bartholomew Dias and Pirate King) don’t win this race.
Manjaam might bounce back, returned to his winning trip, but Emenem is best on AW and Lustrous Light needs rain.
SEXTANT SURELY HAS THE MEASURE
3.15 Ascot The royal runner, Sextant, goes right back down the distaff side to a mare in the Eighties (and beyond?) bred by the Queen, the same line as Frontispiece (4.45 Haydock), her Cambridgeshire hope.
Sextant’s odds prohibit a singles bet but the son of Sea The Stars out of Hypotenuse (another brilliant name, ma’am, grovel grovel) is a hub for your Daq Multiples.
SIR HAMILTON LOOKS BIG AT 16.5
3.50 Ascot Three-year-olds have beaten older horses in this every year but seem not strongly represented this time around.
However, as we saw with Fondest yesterday, they can suddenly take a leap forward against their elders and/or confirm home hopes as a ‘hidden horse.’
Blinkers first time, and Ryan Moore need to make a big difference to Bullingdon, beaten favourite the last twice he’s run.
A small trainer can be forgiven for getting a bit carried away with Sir Hamilton (2-2 after his debut) and pitching him into the Craven Stakes. His two comeback efforts in handicaps in July give him every chance here.
Yorkshire handler Nigel Tinkler, who had a winner down at Goodwood on Tuesday, tries another southern raid with Kaeso, who goes well for Lewis Edmunds.
Graphite Storm has taken on some tough tasks but I’d fancy him more after a few showers of rain.
I’ll take a chance on the second-season runners: I took 6.0 Bullingdon and 16.5 Sir Hamilton win and place (pity the field is reduced to two places only).
HE’S THE REAL McCOY UNDER RYAN
4.20 Ascot Silvestre de Sousa switches from his dual winner Gurkha Friend to Poet’s Society but Shady McCoy – now under Ryan Moore – has beaten Poet’s Society twice in three recent meetings and might have done so again but for being denied a clear run at Goodwood.
Fire Brigade and Zwayyan both come into it, on form when Shady was just shaded out of it half a length on the round course here in August, but both could do with some rain.
The Frankel grey Silver Quartz ran well in the wide open spaces of the July Course (Poet’s Society behind) but has scored just the once and I’ve yet to see that he wants to win again.
BOOKS OPEN AT 33-1 FRONTISPIECE
4.45 Haydock I have already given a mench to the 33-1 Frontispiece in the Cambridgeshire (this column takes 100-3).
Frontispiece, owned by the Queen and trained by Sir Michael Stoute, who has never won the first leg of the autumn double, is reappearing after 104 days off.
The colt was bred by the Queen from her mare Free Verse, who was out of Fictitious, whom she also owned and bred, and was in turn from her mare Trying For Gold, who went to the Royal Stud after being in training with Dick Hern.
We are right back in the late Eighties now, such is the extent of the royal patience and the depth of the royal purse!
Frontispiece (5.7 in the BETDAQ orange for today) won back to back last summer but must take the depleted Haydock race this afternoon, as one around 7lb short of the lowest weight to have won the Cambridgeshire in recent years.
Tom Tate has returned Awake My Soul (9.8 offers) to form at the right time. He’s 5lb higher than when winning this last year but that success was on the soft, so conditions seem to be right for a repeat bid.
TOP JOCKS IN GETTING-OUT DUEL
4.55 Ascot Drama at Ascot as the last two winners of this, Boy In The Bar and Mullionheir, line up for the race again with James Doyle and Silvestre De Sousa booked for a top-jocks duel.
The 5.0 and 11.5 offers respectively on BETDAQ give you the chance to back both for a fun finale.
DAQMAN’S BETS (each staked to win 20 points)
BET 6.25pts win WHAT A WELCOME (2.40 Ascot)
BET 4pts win BULLINGDON, and 1.25pts win and place SIR HAMILTON (3.50 Ascot)
BET 7.25pts win (nap) SHADY McCOY (4.20 Ascot)
BET 4.25pts win FRONTISPIECE and 2.25pts win AWAKE MY SOUL (4.45 Haydock)
BET 5pts win BOY IN THE BAR, and 2pts win and place MULLIONHEIR (4.55 Ascot)
DAQ MULTIPLES: 1 x 3pts win treble WHAT A WELCOME (2.40 Ascot), SEXTANT (3.15 Ascot) and SHADY McCOY (4.20 Ascot)
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