BAD LUCK SPIKE SERVES ONLY TO SPUR DAQMAN ON AT RIPON: Daqman’s day started well yesterday with Urban Artist (WON 7-2) an all-the-way winner at Goodwood but then Scardura unseated rider at the first fence at Perth and Chairmanoftheboard reared in the stalls, losing many lengths. Woven (2nd 12-1) and Soft Light (2nd 78-10) just served to rub it in!
Today is one of the big meetings of the year in the North, and Daqman naps in the Ripon Rowels, named after the old-fashioned spiked-wheel spurs.
Bank Holiday headlines
🔹 CROWLEY JOINS THE JOCKEY ELITE
🔹 CROWNTHORPE ONE FOR THE BOYS
🔹 PRIDE OF PLACE FROM STALL ONE
🔹 MEGAN IS RELYING ON GAMESTERS
🔹 MAC MIGHT STALL AT EVENS BUT..
🔹 .. MURPHY CAN POWER HOME POY
CROWLEY JOINS THE JOCKEY ELITE
⚠️ HEADS UP Jim Crowley joined the likes of Ryan Moore and Frankie Dettori when he landed his 2000th winner at Goodwood yesterday. His big-money rides in the season have netted over £500,000: Battaash and Mohaather.
For Crowley, whose 2,000 came up with Modmin for Marcus Tregoning, it’s back to business today with seven booked rides on Sandown’s nine-race card and 23 more before the weekend.
CROWNTHORPE ONE FOR THE BOYS
⭕ 1.20 Ripon (Ripon Rowels) Not well drawn, has only ever won fresh and has never raced beyond 7f. Three black marks, so Danyah looks a favourite to oppose in the market for this famous mile.
Hortzador has won a similar CD mile race on the soft but has never been able to climb out of class 3.
Hesslewood is a nearly horse here (Ripon form 342) and hasn’t won on Flat turf since his maiden 15 races back, always a bad sign.
In fact, Hesslewood and Hortzader were second and third to Just Hiss over the CD (good to soft) a fortnight ago, and revised weights provide for a triple dead-heat. No way.
The 9.0 BETDAQ offer Crownthorpe is another CD winner who has won his last three races under apprentice jockeys. He had Hortzador more than five lengths behind at York (soft) last backend.
Al Erayg is 1-25 on turf; Rousayan has only ever won on a sound surface; Tukhoom is unlikely to get the mile on soft; Al Mukhtar Star has never raced in England; Dalgarno never over a trip as short as a mile.
PRIDE OF PLACE FROM STALL ONE
⭕ 1.50 Ripon (Champion Two-year-Olds Trophy) Eight winners out of 10 have come from the low four draw, with six of them out of the one stall.
That puts Bahrain Pride on the spot, sired by the world-record holder for two-year-old winners, Kodiac, and out of a Sea The Stars mare.
By coincidence, Bahrain Pride (BETDAQ 4.0 taken) has run just the one race, when he was also drawn one – at Windsor – and won on the soft, striding through the pack impressively.
Out of gate 4, Albadri is also a Windsor winner, also on the soft, and in a similar (slowish) time.
The coincidences continue in that, out of stalls 2 and 3 are fillies: a daughter of Dandy Man, Terrichang, runner-up at Chester, and The Flying Ginger, a winner at Chester.
Queen Of Rio is a Ripon winner and her nose defeat at York over 5f in first-time blinkers, was in a Listed race but the run belied her 50-1 odds.
Internationaldream has bags of experience and, before his win in the Ripon Hornblower the last day, he was third in the Group 3 Molecomb at York, with the subsequent Ballyhane winner, Chief Little Hawk, fourth.
MEGAN IS RELYING ON GAMESTERS
⭕ 2.20 Ripon (Billy Nevett Memorial Handicap) Named after the northern jockey who rode to Dante to win the Derby, it has James Doyle looking for a double after Bahrain Pride.
His mount, Sarvan, landed a gamble at Pontefract over today’s trip, but ran too freely over further at Goodwood.
Back to the right trip today but has no experience of soft ground, whereas – at double the price this morning – Hats Off To Larry is a winner on soft and was beaten only a length over the Ripon CD in June off today’s mark.
But the mudlark in this is Gamesters Icon, four wins in a row last autumn on soft-heavy, including for today’s rider, Megan Nicholls.
Is the mare ready now after just one recent run since November? It’s Megan’s only ride of the day, and 9.0 BETDAQ offers were tempting. If the ground dries significantly, save on Sarvan.
MAC MIGHT STALL AT EVENS BUT..
⭕ 4.10 Sandown Huddleton Mac had winners behind when second at Ascot but even money in a field of 14 unknowns, drawn wide on soft ground at Sandown doesn’t invite a bet.
I’ve opposed favourites Danyah and Sarvan – too big to lay – but taking on Huddleton Mac won’t be too costly at evens or so (2.12 in the BETDAQ green).
My lays record this season is 4-5, in profit by 18.85 points, so I won’t be swapping caviar for a Big Mac if I’m wrong about this one.
..MURPHY CAN POWER HOME POY
⭕ 5.15 Sandown Hughie Morrison, who trains Huddleton Mac, is in fabulous form. His weekend hat-trick, included Telecaster in yesterday’s £67,000 Grand Prix de Deauville.
Here he’s booked Oisin Murphy again for Mr Poy, who threw the race away at Lingfield in June, subject of a gamble after third under Murphy at Kempton.
The word is that a gelding op has ironed out Mr Poy’s quirks and the money was only lent.
Murphy knows all about the main opposition, having ridden the filly Arabic Charm at Windsor last month. I took 5.7 Mr Poy.
DAQMAN’S BETS
1.20 Ripon (win 50)
BULL’S-EYE BET 6.25pts win CROWNTHORPE
1.50 Ripon (win 20)
BACK 6pts win BAHRAIN PRIDE
2.20 Ripon (win 20)
BACK 2.5pts win GAMESTERS ICON
4.10 Sandown (win 10)
LAY 10pts HUDDLETON MAC
5.15 Sandown (win 20 nap)
BACK 4.25pts win MR POY
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