MORE BIG BETDAQ VALUE IN DAQMAN’S HORDE OF WINNERS: After winners at 8-1 and 12-1 on Wednesday and Thursday, Daqman struck again yesterday with 17-2 and 5-1 hits, again involving a big-value find on BETDAQ. He’s left Pricewise standing with a lead of 295 points and a 13-3 overall score on winners they have selected. Yesterday’s success:
WON 17-2 FANNY LOGAN (from 11.5 on BETDAQ)
WON 5-1 GOLDEN HORDE (from 6.7 on BETDAQ)
WON 6-4 ART POWER (from 3.2 on BETDAQ)
Ascot Final Day Headlines
🔹 FORM CLOUDY: GROUND DRIES OUT!
🔹 COUNT ON OISIN MURPHY AT 35.0
🔹 THERE’S JOY IN 24.0 TIME MACHINE
🔹 GOSDEN PLAYING TWO WILD CARDS
🔹 THEY’VE IGNORED THE WICHITA LINE
🔹 ANGEL’S DRAW LOOKS HEAVEN SENT
FORM CLOUDY: GROUND DRIES OUT!
⚠️ HEADS UP: TODAY’S GOING: Good on the straight course; good to soft on the round course; drying weather. Partly cloudy. DRAW: High on the straight course.
LEADING ASCOT TRAINERS (5 years + this week’s update): John Gosden 45, Aidan O’Brien 33, Charlie Appleby 23, Mark Johnston 21, Sir Michael Stoute 20.
JOCKEYS (5 years +update): Ryan Moore 44, Frankie Dettori 35, William Buick 32, James Doyle 25, Adam Kirby 20.
WINNERS THIS WEEK: TRAINERS: John Gosden 5, Roger Varian 4; Aidan O’Brien 4; Charles Hills 2, Alan King 2; one each Andrew Balding, Michael Bell, Paul and Oliver Cole, Karl Burke, Owen Burrows, Clive Cox, Tim Easterby, Charlie Fellowes, Richard Hannon, William Knight, William Muir, Oisin Murphy.
JOCKEYS: Jim Crowley 6; Ryan Moore 4; James Doyle 3; Frankie Dettori 3; one each Andrea Atzeni, William Buick, Ben Curtis, Hollie Doyle, Martin Dwyer, Thore Hammer Hansen, Adam Kirby, Oisin Murphy, Rossa Ryan, Silvestre de Sousa, Hayley Turner.
COUNT ON OISIN MURPHY AT 35.0
👑 12.40 Ascot (Silver Wokingham Handicap) STATS: First running today; but the Wokingham itself usually goes to outsiders, aged four or five (8-10); drawn high. Tim Easterby has four live candidates today.
FORM: William Haggas has picked up three winners at minor meetings during Ascot but has been missing strike badly there, with returns this week including 222344.
It suggests that the overnight gamble Aplomb (and Nahaarr) might run well in this opener but is likely to be a painful near miss from stall 13. Aplomb’s Ascot form in the last 13 months is similar: 22.
Also punted is the quirky Swindler, with Ascot figures of 11. He had a good run back, and the drying ground helps. But he is drawn 2.
Louie De Palma, who was behind him here at Ascot last July, is better off at the weights, with a record on the course of 10013.
Count d’Orsay (stall 16) – from Art Power’s yard – has a good run back and has Oisin Murphy booked. No winning form beyond 5f but hasn’t really explored that option and bags of stamina in the pedigree: 35.0 on BETDAQ.
Stablemate Hyperfocus has a chance, drawn 23; unlucky when pipped a neck in October’s Coral Sprint on soft off today’s mark but the ground may have dried up on him.
It often pays to back horses with some 7f form in a race like this but the snag with Blue Mist is that he has 7f and 1m form only; none over 6f. Ditto: Chiefofchiefs.
Embour, sixth in the Portland, fifth in the Ayr Gold Cup, has failed to win in nine races rated 95 to 98, but has Ascot Stakes winning rider, Thore Hammer Hansen, claiming 5lb. Trainer Richard Hannon had a winner here on Tuesday but is 1-40 since. The BETDAQ 16.5 helps.
THERE’S JOY IN 24.0 TIME MACHINE
👑 1.15 Ascot (Queen Mary Stakes) STATS: Last seven winners of this by stall: 16, 12, 20, 14, 20, 16, 25. Wesley Ward 3, Mark Johnston 2, Mick Channon 2.
FORM: It’s sad to see the Wesley Ward flying machines wobble in the last 100 yards this week. The one draw means that Campanelle is likely to wobble long before then.
Dickiedooda (drawn 9) was impressive on the debut, as was More Beautiful, who has a golden gate in 18, but this is not a race Aidan O’Brien wins. Mark Johnston does.
I like the look of his granddaughter of Kitten’s Joy (Kameko, Roaring Lion) out of an Oasis Dream mare, name of Sands Of Time (stall 12). BETDAQ 24.0.
👑 1.50 Ascot (Coventry Stakes): STATS: This is more like an Aidan O’Brien race! He’s won it nine times, including last year with Arizona.
FORM: Admiral Nelson (BETDAQ 3.55 from stall 10) today was ‘deeply impressive’ at The Curragh, say racereaders, and the big and beautiful son of Kingman seems to have Dark Lion (out of 15) to fear most. Roger Varian is in splendid form.
GOSDEN PLAYING TWO WILD CARDS
👑 2.25 Ascot (Coronation Stakes) STATS: John Gosden (two this century) is the only English trainer with a stable today to have won this in the decade. Aidan O’Brien has trained three since 2002.
FORM: In the 1,000 Guineas, O’Brien’s Love turned around the Fillies Mile form with Quadrilateral. Needed to settle; needed further. Those were excuses she must eradicate here if she is to win at 1m.
O’Brien runs So Wonderful, who was also behind Love in the Moyglare and third to stablemate Peaceful in the Irish 1,000 Guineas.
Form from both Guineas has looked rocky and Gosden’s Run Wild could make nonsense of it, if she does what she did in a Listed at Newmarket (1m 2f), blitzing them from the front. Late developer, or what!
Alpine Star with Frankie Dettori? Well, Jessica Harrington’s second-season fillies have been disappointing, including Millisle yesterday, and I’m backing only those from her two-year-olds’ yard at this time. Jessica had 33 losers before a Gowran Park winner yesterday.
It’s doubtful that the Breeders Cup (firm) winner Sharing will appreciate the Ascot turf; he needs to hear his feet rattle. I’ll take 6.5 James Doyle for a Wild finish.
THEY’VE IGNORED THE WICHITA LINE
👑 3.00 Ascot (St James’s Palace Stakes) STATS: Gleneagles, Dawn Approach, Frankel…this is usually a repeat of the Newmarket Guineas.
FORM: We only have the Guineas placed horses, Wichita and Pinatubo, here this afternoon, plus one I thought was badly in need of the run that day, Royal Dornoch. Arizona was even further out of the back door.
John Gosden plays another – even bigger – wild card in Palace Pier, who has to make a funicular leap from handicapping.
This, and the lemmings’ continued belief in Pinatubo, has blinded the market, leaving Wichita a big price at 3.6.
👑 3.35 Ascot (Diamond Jubilee) STATS Four and five year olds 9-10.
FORM: They raved about one sprinter, Art Power, and they were right. But does Sceptical warrant even bigger hype?
He bolted up at Naas over a 100 horse, but had to, and now meets six rivals rated 114-118, including Dream Of Dreams, a head second to Blue Point in the race last year, and with a trainer who improves older horses.
Hello Youmzain, placed in the Commonwealth Cup last year, then beat The Tin Man in the Haydock Sprint, but the going may have turned against him.
Any cut in the ground will help but the drying day means it’s certainly not soft enough for One Master, the Foret (7f) winner, second in the British Champions Sprint here at Ascot on heavy.
The one the good ground brings into the race is Khaadem, getting confident words from Charles Hills and with the week’s leading jockey, Jim Crowley, to do the steering. Huge at 9.3 on BETDAQ.
ANGEL’S DRAW LOOKS HEAVEN SENT
👑 4.10 Ascot (Wokingham Stakes) Outsiders usually win this 6f cavalry-charge, aged four or five (8-10); drawn high; trained by the usual suspects among handicap trainers but none has won it twice since Jack Berry (1997-8).
FORM: The winner every time, or nearly so, Bielsa, has improved a stone in three races but is faced with a far-rails ride from stall 3.
The loser every time, or nearly so, Summerghand (1-19 in 22 months; six times placed without winning on turf in that time) is sure to be tipped yet again by one or more of the 200 experts. If he wins, I am happy to applaud; 18-1 on, he loses. Best drawn appear to be:
Hey Jonesy (10) Dropped 7lb since 9th in this race last year – beaten just under 4lengths – from stall 18. Often flatters (previously fifth in the Commonwealth Cup) and 1-18 on turf.
Tinto (11) Ascot winner, scored at Newmarket 15 days ago at a huge price. Now off highest ever mark.
Danzeno (12) Leading 2020 jockey Ben Curtis had a winner here yesterday, and Danzeno has Ascot form of 230140033, including 5th/17th/3rd in the Wokingham. Nine now.
No Nonsense (13) Hidden horse. Strapping animal, won twice as a 2yo, before tackling the Greenham, Commonwealth Cup Trial here (second) and two other races in the Pattern. Could be anything and nothing. He’s 50.0 on BETDAQ.
Summerghand (14) Fifth last year from the adjacent stall 15. Last won 6lb lower on the July Course in August 2018 (6f soft).
Bella Fever (15) Uruguyan; winner at Meydan (7f) for S African trainer; never raced in UK..
Konchek (16) Has won only his maiden, always a bad sign (1-11)
Highland Dress (17), an unexposed Shamardal, going for a hat-trick. Trainer in form. Backed down to 10-1.
Soldier’s Minute (18) Top-of-the-ground horse; does well at York; high in the handicap now.
Spanish City (19) Winner 5f-7f; kept to sound surface. Andrea Atzeni booked by in-form yard. Ran well at Ascot in September, leading at today’s trip.
Gulliver (20) Third in the Ayr Gold Cup, won the Coral Sprint on the soft last autumn but not so good since and 9lb higher now.
Air Raid (21) Landed a hat-trick at Hamilton last summer, two of them on soft.
Lethal Lunch (22) Great to see Adam Kirby and Clive Cox win the Commonwealth Cup yesterday. Lethal Lunch not won on turf for two years but in fine form on AW; stays 7f which helps; tongue-tie first time: BETDAQ 25.0
Angel Alexander (23) Ayr Gold Cup win and Group-3 placed at Maisons-Laffitte on heavy; has wintered at Meydan. Trainer and jockey in form. Same weight as last year’s winner but 2lb lower mark. Super value 22.0.
Teruntum Star (24) Not scored this high in the handicap since October, 2017; heavy-ground win in the autumn after change of stable. Eight now.
DAQMAN’S BETS
12.40 Ascot (win 50)
BULL’S-EYE BET: 1.5pts win COUNT D’ORSAY
BULL’S-EYE BET: 3.25pts win EMBOUR
1.15 Ascot (win 50, win 10)
BULL’S-EYE BET 2.5pts win and place SANDS OF TIME
1.50 Ascot (win 30)
BET 12pts win ADMIRAL NELSON
2.25 Ascot (win 30)
BET 5.5pts win RUN WILD
3.00 Ascot (win 30, nap)
BET 12pts win WICHITA
3.35 Ascot (win 50)
BULL’S-EYE BET: 6pts win KHAADEM
4.10 Ascot (win 50, place 10)
BULL’S-EYE BET: 2.5pts win ANGEL ALEXANDER
BULL’S-EYE BET: 2pts win LETHAL LUNCH
BULL’S-EYE BET: 1pt win and place NO NONSENSE
4.40 Ascot (win 10)
BET 9pts win WHO DARES WINS
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