44.0 HUNT CUP WINNER! WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF DAQMAN: One-two, one-two! Daqman punched home first and second in two big races at Royal Ascot yesterday, including the Royal Hunt Cup, which he won with the 44.0 BETDAQ offer Real World (WON 18-1 SP). His results in five races were 11211 from nine tips, bringing his winning bets to eight in 14 races over the first two days, including places. Profit on the day yesterday 119.75:
WON 8-1 QUICK SUZY w/p at 11.0 BETDAQ
WON 15-2 KEMARI (2nd Wordsworth 10-3) at 10.0 BETDAQ
WON 11-10 LOVE (nap)
WON 18-1 REAL WORLD (2nd Astro King 11-2) w/p at 44.0 BETDAQ
HE LEADS PRICEWISE 33-17 IN WINNING BETS FOR THE SEASON: Daqman’s winning spree sent him more than 248 points up on Pricewise of the Racing Post to level stakes with successful bets now 33-17. Love was his third consecutive winning nap after Tregony (WON 7-4 Monday) and Palace Pier (supernap WON 2-7 Tuesday).
DAQMAN 33, PRICEWISE 17
(Daqman +235.14 Pricewise -13.50)
SUPERNAPS 8-10 (profit 123.55)
LAYS LOGIC 9-12
FORTUNE COOKIES 1-3
NAPS (this week) 3-3
‘LUCKY’ ASCOT GOING STILL ON THE FIRM SIDE: First reports this morning were that rain around the country had luckily missed Ascot: in warning of thunderstorms today, the forecast included ‘10% chance of precipitation’. The going was still on the firm side of good. Headlines:
👑 LUCCI LOOKS HOME FOR THE MONEY
👑 THIS IS DERBY DAY FOR MOHAAFETH
👑 THIS IS OAKS DAY FOR NOON STAR
👑 STRADIVARIUS: ‘SUBJECT’ CLOSED
👑 LOTTERY SO USE YOUR HOROSCOPE
👑 ACT OF WISDOM OR A 40.0 FOLLY?
👑 CAMPARI ULTIMATE HIDDEN HORSE
LUCCI LOOKS HOME FOR THE MONEY
🎩 2.30 Royal Ascot (Norfolk Stakes)
STATS: Not one winning favourite going back 12 years; not a one! Yet six winners were between 4-1 and 6-1. Wesley Ward and Aidan O’Brien have each won it twice in the last eight seasons.
FORM: The Ward runners this week have all failed to last that final 100 yards or so but Lucci won his maiden on turf at Belmont just a second outside the track record. The word ‘lucci’ is slang for money (derived from ‘lucre’ and pronounced lew-chi).
Ward books Coventry winner Oisin Murphy for Nakatomi, who beat a dual winner in his maiden but that was on Dirt.
Punters will be looking to the rail on either side after sprint strikes yesterday from gate 22 and from the one stall.
A couple of stalls away from Nakatomi (in 4) is Cadamosto (Aidan O’Brien in 2) who travels really well and is by No Nay Never, winner of this race in 2013.
Navello (3) was beaten by the soft ground when third to Coventry fifth Ebro River at Sandown. They were split by Little Earl, who comes out of gate 12 today, next door to Lucci (11).
Project Dante (16) beat Korker at York but the Bryan Smart stable is currently 0-14. Andreas Vesalius (14) won at Naas on the soft and is by a soft-ground sire.
With trainer William Haggas striking at 36%, Second Wind could be the one for a blind bet before the ground is known for sure; the Kodiac colt has won twice, once on soft, once on firm.
Ironically, if Lucci splits to the near side, the middle could be outrun by the rail and Second Wind – from gate 15 – could benefit
BETDAQ BETTING EXCHANGE value 9.0 Lucci, 14.5 Second Wind
THIS IS DERBY DAY FOR MOHAAFETH
🎩 3.05 Royal Ascot (Hampton Court Stakes)
FORM: Who is the One Ruler? Aidan O’Brien scored last year with Russian Emperor and now tries Roman Empire, front-running fourth in the Dante.
But my Fortune Cookie, Mohaafeth (2.96 this morning), has landed a hat-trick this year for William Haggas, and was strongly fancied for the Derby only to be withdrawn because of the soft ground, so needs the rain to stay away.
One Ruler has disappointed in both Guineas and Derby but drops two grades here; rain would help the Futurity runner-up to Mac Swiney on heavy.
Movin Time and The Rosstafarian are lightly raced and could improve on what we’ve seen. Compare with Frankie Dettori’s mount, Snapraeterea, who is having his 13th start.
Movin Time (BETDAQ 4.6) walked all over yesterday’s Queens Vase winner, Kemari, in their maiden at Newmarket last month and ‘could be anything.’
THIS IS OAKS DAY FOR NOON STAR
🎩 3.40 Royal Ascot (Ribblesdale Stakes)
STATS: The ‘Ascot Oaks’ invariably goes to fillies from the top yards: John Gosden 3, Aidan O’Brien 3 in seven seasons. Sir Michael Stoute has also won it three times but has not scored since 2003.
FORM: Stoute’s biggest earners this year include the fillies Lights On and Queen Power, and Noon Star is favourite (at 3.35 this morning) to overtake them by winning this after her Musidora second to Snowfall, the subsequent Oaks heroine, with Divinely (O’Brien) a well-beaten third and Dubai Fountain a poor 12th.
Eshaada and Gloria Mundi were one-two in a trial at Newbury a month back, with Aristia third, Twisted Reality fourth. Annerville won her maiden in fine style.
STRADIVARIUS: ‘SUBJECT’ CLOSED
🎩 4.15 Royal Ascot (Ascot Gold Cup)
STATS: Four-year-olds are six from nine. Yeats (2006-9) holds the record with four wins. Stradivarius (2018-20) so far matches Sagaro’s three.
FORM: Stradivarius is here for a fourth, and he’s 6lb clear in the ratings. He’s beaten Nayef Road three times, two of them at Ascot. Santiago couldn’t get by him in the Goodwood Cup when he was getting 15lb as a three-year-old!
The further he goes the higher the rating achieved by Subjectivist. Won the Prix Royal Oak on heavy (Prix Du Cadran winner Princess Zoe fourth) and the Dubai Gold Cup on good (Spanish Mission fifth). He is just a pound below Stradivarius’ mark at the same age.
The snag is that Mark Johnston’s runners have been well out of the backdoor at Ascot this week. Donnacha O’Brien is not in much form either.
His Emperor Of The Sun drifted alarmingly this morning. In the Levmoss Stakes last month, he just kept stepping on the gas over Melbourne Cup winner Twilight Payment (third) and Amhran Na Bhfiann in fourth.
But, as runner-up, Search For A Song had finished further behind Trueshan when they were one-two in the Long Distance championship in October. Sovereign was fifth; Doncaster Cup winner Spanish Mission seventh.
Trueshan would like some rain and, untried beyond 2m, he and the holder, Stradivarius, will find Subjectivist hard to claw back if he is allowed to get away from them on a fast surface.
BETDAQ value 9.2 Subjectivist
LOTTERY SO USE YOUR HOROSCOPE
🎩 5.00 Royal Ascot (Britannia Handicap)
STATS: Eight winners out of 11 have come from below 9st. Eight out of 10 from double-figure stalls. Only one favourite scored in the decade, and there were winners at 20-1, 25-1 and 28-1. It’s a lottery.
FORM The draw split has Roadobarg (24) and Liffey River (25) seemingly needing it soft, Quintillus (28) first run after gelding, Big Narstie (29) requiring a claimer after a rise without winning.
Tawleed (30) second string to Mithras (leads the middle from 15), Siam Fox (32) and Perotto (19) carrying a penalty.
Of the low numbers Aerion Power (1) and Air To Air (8) are improvers; soft/heavy winner Horoscope (2) will act on top of the ground, says Ryan Moore; Royal Pleasure (3) is a hidden horse from AW; so, too, Royal Air Force (20), and Dubai Honour (10) can also improve on last year’s form. Grid (16), fourth to Bolshoi Ballet as a maiden, looks prpogressive this year.
BETDAQ value 23 Royal Pleasure, 36 Horoscope, 40 Grid, 52 Royal Air Force
ACT OF WISDOM OR A 40.0 FOLLY?
🎩 5.35 Royal Ascot (King George V Handicap)
STATS: No outright favourite has won in the decade; 9 winners out of 11 carried 9st or lower; 8 out of 10 had a double-figure draw.
FORM First Light won his maiden by a Yorkshire mile and Sir Lamorak was one-time Derby favourite.
Between these disparities is a wealth of money plunged this morning, though probably not as much (1,100,000 guineas) as Act Of Wisdom cost as a yearling.
Godolphin will never get their money back; the brother to Line Of Duty has been gelded! But he’s a tasty hidden horse in yet another lottery.
BETDAQ value 5.2 Sir Lamorak, 11.5 First Light, 42 Act of Wisdom
CAMPARI ULTIMATE HIDDEN HORSE
🎩 6.10 Royal Ascot (Buckingham Palace Handicap)
STATS: Winners by stall in the last five years: 29, 11, 32, 29, 26.
FORM: Another Fortune Cookie at a big price, has Lord Campari’s handicap debut been worth waiting for?
A winner at this time last year and asked enormous questions, though raced only five times. By coincidence, his opening maiden and his last run – in the Lockinge – were both against Palace Pier.
The ultimate hidden horse, Lord Campari races from stall 19 and his trainer, Roger Varian, has won the race before in 2012.
BETDAQ value 13.5 Lord Campari
DAQMAN’S BETS
2.30 Royal Ascot (win 20)
BET 2.5pts win LUCCI
BET 1.5pts win SECOND WIND
3.05 Royal Ascot (win 35)
FORTUNE COOKIE and win-10 saver
BET 10pts win MOHAAFETH
BET 2.75pts win MOVIN TIME
3.40 Royal Ascot (win 20 nap)
BET 8pts win NOON STAR
4.15 Royal Ascot (win 30)
BET 3.5pts win SUBJECTIVIST
5.00 Royal Ascot (win-50 bull’s-eye bets)
BET 2.25pts win ROYAL PLEASURE
BET 1.5pts win HOROSCOPE
BET 1.25pts win GRID
BET 1pt win ROYAL AIR FORCE
5.30 Royal Ascot (win-50 place 10, win 20)
BET 1.25pts win and 1.75pts place ACT OF WISDOM
BET 4pts win SIR LAMORAK
BET 2pts win FIRST LIGHT
6.10 Royal Ascot (win 125, place 10)
FORTUNE COOKIE
BET 10pts win, 3pts place LORD CAMPARI
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