EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK IN PROFIT AND FOUR NAPS OUT OF SIX! He’s done it! Daqman completed a dream week yesterday with seven consecutive days in profit (totalling just under 90 points) and four winning naps out of the last six, but not without a hiccup. Overdrive ‘won’ him 20 points only to be disqualified before Dream Of Dreams raced clear to land the nap by a long-looking seven lengths.
SATURDAY: Profit on the day: 9 points
✔️ WON 13-2 OVERDRIVE (BETDAQ 9.8) disqu/placed 2nd
✔️ WON 13-8 DREAM OF DREAMS (nap)
FRIDAY: Profit on the day: 22.75 points
✔️ WON 13-8 ARMORY (nap)
✔️ WON 10-11 DELPHI
THURSDAY: Profit on the day: 8.25 points
✔️ WON 12-1 ROYAL DORNOCH
WEDNESDAY: Profit on the day: 18.30 points
✔️ WON 100-30 BILLIAN
✔️ WON evens TASAAMUH (nap)
TUESDAY: Profit on the day: 8.20 points
✔️ WON 13-2 ROYAL DYNASTY (w/p 10.0 on BETDAQ)
MONDAY: Profit on the day: 13.25 points
✔️ WON 5-2 MYSTERY SMILES (nap)
SUNDAY: Profit on the day: 9.70 points
✔️ WON 7-1 REGAL REALITY (win 50 at BETDAQ 10.0)
DAQMAN 28-12 UP ON PRICEWISE: Dream of Dreams put Daqman 28-12 up on Pricewise, taking him 228 points clear to level stakes, as they go head to head for the Great St Wilfrid Handicap at Ripon this afternoon and the mile race of stars in Deauville.
HE’S KING IN THE FRENCH MUD
Going, going! Two races in England and France today couldn’t be wider apart: a 6f handicap in a Yorkshire market town and a one-mile Group-1 championship at the smart resort of Deauville, where I once paid £2.50 for a glass of water. And that was 30 years ago.
Was it the lemon on top or the lemon drinking out of the glass? Deauville today is epected to be heavy and Ripon faced showers.. after watering! So there seems sure to be plenty of lemons among punters today, searching for value in the mud.
⭕ 2.50 Deauville (Prix Jacques Le Marois) English and Irish raiders have won five of the last eight, including Newmarket’s John Gosden with Kingman (2014).
Gosden and Frankie Dettori carry the flag for England with the unbeaten Palace Pier after the team’s dramatic victory with Mishriff yesterday.
But Ireland goes for a hat-trick in the race with Ken Condon’s stable trying to repeat last year’s Romanised success and Jessica Harrington (Alpine Star) bidding to follow up her 2018 strike with Alpha Centauri. Aidan O’Brien (Circus Maximus) has had just the one previous winner, Excelebration 2012.
The Press are busy this morning comparing speed times from Palace Pier in his winning the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot over Pinatubo and Alpine Stars’ Coronation Stakes triumph on the same course.
In fact, Alpine Star beat nothing well at Ascot and it’s her narrow defeat by Fancy Blue in the French Oaks that puts her in line for this. She only just failed to last out the extra quarter-mile.
Persian King has won seven races out of 10 and never been out of the first two. He stays further: won the Ispahan over nine furlongs recently, was runner-up in the 2019 French Derby; had lengthened well to win their Guineas on heavy.
Circus Maximus, also a winner on heavy, was 110 rated when he won the St James’s Palace last year, Palace Pier 109 this.
Verdict: I want a horse that’s won beyond a mile and has hot form on heavy ground. At this time of year, the gap has narrowed (to just 5lb) between older horses and three-year-old colts and Persian King at 5.5. ticks my boxes.
His trainer Andre Fabre has won the race seven times and jockey Pierre-Charles Boudot has ridden 135 winners this year. A bigger danger than Palace Pier may be the filly Alpine Star, who gets 9lb.
HANDICAP FOCUS ON EASTERBY
⭕ 3.15 Ripon (Great St Wilfrid Handicap) Dakota Gold (stall 15) made all down the nearside last season against a storming finish along the far-side rail by a trio released from gates 5, 1 and 6. That’s a typical result here.
The year before, Gunmetal (out of 19) beat Dakota Gold, giving 6lb. Today Gunmetal will race 15lb lower from stall 9, with David Barron’s horses at last out of the doldrums.
Dakota Gold is 8lb higher than last year and from a middle draw (12), almost adjacent to Citron Major (10), last year’s third from the one stall.
But catching my eye is Tim Easterby’s Staxton, fifth that day but 11lb lower now, despite a CD success last time out, and in one of the plum nearside pozzies from stall 17. Right next door is his stablemate, Golden Apollo.
However, when Staxton won at Ripon just 10 days ago, Gunmetal was third, giving 5lb. Today he’s 11lb better off, including Ray Dawson’s allowance.
Motogally is also a winner on the last day and also has a high number in stall 20 but he’s up 8lb and seems to want a sound surface.
Brian The Snail (gate 19) has a big pull on his Armstrong Memorial conqueror at Ripon two weeks’ back, none other than Citron Major.
In last year’s Consolation race, Hyperfocus led the far side group off 89, and was beaten a neck. Hyperfocus was second in the Coral Sprint at York last October (soft), so is my Easterby pick.
I put the trainer up during the week as a man to follow in this second half of the season.
Verdict: The watered firm ground was good this morning but with showers, some potentially heavy, before the ‘off’. I’m betting blind on the conditions at the time but Gunmetal (10.5) and Hyperfocus (14.5) seem so well handicapped. On the nearside, Brian The Snail (15.5), who has won on soft.
TAKING HOLLIE’S SIDE AT 15.0
⭕ 1.50 Newbury Risk Taker (BETDAQ 4.5) is not a novel choice but seems safe for at least a good run after easily beating two subsequent winners into the minor placings at Haydock on the soft.
The danger is anything we don’t know about which will relish the conditions! Since three-year-olds have landed a hat-trick in the race, I’ll try another one, Gallaside (15.0): gelded, cheekpieces first time and Hollie Doyle booked.
⭕ 3.00 Newbury Course-and-distance winner Enhanced, lightly raced and liking cut in the ground, looks well placed back here by Hughie Morrison after a failed foray at 2m.
Is getting around a stone from most of his contemporaries today and with the two three-year-olds seemingly in poor form. A bull’s-eye nap at 10.0 on BETDAQ.
DAQMAN’S BETS
1.50 Newbury (win 20)
BET 5.5pts win RISK TAKER
BET 1.5pts win GALLASIDE
2.50 Deauville (win 20)
BET 4.5pts win PERSIAN KING
3.00 Newbury (nap to win 50, place cover)
BULL’S-EYE NAP 5pts win and place ENHANCED
3.15 Ripon (two to win 50, win 20)
BULL’S-EYE BET 3.75pts win HYPERFOCUS
BULL’S-EYE BET 3.5pts win BRIAN THE SNAIL
BET 2pts win GUNMETAL
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