BIG BETDAQ VALUE ALL THE WAY ON SUPER SATURDAY: Super Saturday is a truly hot day’s racing at Ascot, Newmarket and York, and Daqman spots superb BETDAQ offers for the John Smith’s trophies, the Bunbury Cup and the July Stakes at 5.5, 5.6, 5.9, 6.5, 8.4, 9.0, 9.8, 10.0 (twice) 13.0, 20.0 and 29.0, a feast of value betting. Headlines:
🔹 ALWAYS A PRINCE FIRST TIME OUT
🔹 PEROTTO’S BRITANNIA GETS BOOST
🔹 DAWAAM IN THE ROUGH AND TUMBLE
🔹 20.0 SUPREMACY BIG BETDAQ VALUE
DAQMAN IN POLE POSITION 39-19 UP ON PRICEWISE: Daqman successfully laid a favourite but couldn’t get a winner yesterday, leaving him 20 winning bets ahead of Pricewise. He’s striking at better than 70% on supernaps and logical lays but there will be nothing so short on a day of big fields all round.
DAQMAN 39, PRICEWISE 19 (Daqman + 165.14, Pricewise – 366.50)
SUPERNAPS 8-11 (72%)
LAYS LOGIC 10-14 (71%)
FORTUNE COOKIES 4-10 (40%)
ALWAYS A PRINCE FIRST TIME OUT
⭕ 2.20 York (John Smiths Silver Cup) Ilaraab beats Quickthorn on a line through Raymond Tusk; has the stamina in his pedigree and – hopefully – is without the soft ground that cost him his chance at Royal Ascot.
Hukum was third in the Ascot race behind Wonderful Tonight and the recent Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud winner, Broome. Wears a tongue-tie first time today.
The Ebor winner here, Fujaira Prince, has been laid out to come to this fresh. He is a winner after a break four times in a row. Can he still do the job at age seven?
BETDAQ BETTING EXCHANGE VALUE 5.6 Fujaira Prince, 6.6 Ilaraab
⭕ 3.00 Ascot (Summer Mile) A 5.9 offer this morning, Tilsit, who goes with the pace, should enjoy this drop back in trip on the softened ground; he was narrowly headed in the Prix d’Ispahan (good t o soft) by Skalleti, who was landing a hat-trick after taking the Exbury and the Harcourt in the Spring.
⭕ 3.35 Ascot This cavalry charge will see two or three groups, with Significantly (drawn 8) leading the low numbers, in which Showalong (4) gets her ground.
On the other side, Tis Marvellous (17) has won the race before, and Boundless Power (18) has been marked up by racereaders as a powerful sort likely to step up in grade.
BETDAQ value 9.0 Showalong, 10 Boundless Power
PEROTTO’S BRITANNIA GETS BOOST
⭕ 3.50 Newmarket (Bunbury Cup) High numbers on the far side have won the last five from, successively, stalls 14, 19, 16, 14 and 14.
In fact, low stalls haven’t made headlines when a big field has split since an amazing run by Brae Hill (out of 2), who raced alone on the Stands rail in 2011.
Motakhayyel, winner last year from stall 14, travelled strongly all the way, and it will be interesting to see what Frankie Dettori does with him out of gate 3 off 4lb higher than a year ago.
Fundamental (stall 14) and Perotto (11) get in 6lb and 5lb, respectively, below their future ratings. Ametist – out of the one stall – has a 6lb penalty but is due to go down 3lb, despite completing a four-timer when he won here on the last day.
Perotto’s Britannia win was boosted yesterday by Dubai Honour, who had ‘won’ the race on the other side at Ascot. Fundamental was fifth in the Group-3 Jersey Stakes and is obviously highly regarded but has never won on turf. Maybe this switch to handicapping will do the trick.
Symbolize is 1-12 on turf; National League is on a losing run of 14, and Kimifive hasn’t scored for two years. Karibana was drawn on the wrong side in the Buckingham Palace Stakes at Ascot .
BETDAQ value 5.5 Perotto, 8.4 Fundamental
DAWAAM IN THE ROUGH AND TUMBLE
⭕ 4.05 York (John Smith’s Cup) My fancies, Dawaam, Lucander and Al Zaraqaan, are all drawn in double figures. Market leaders, Astro King, Surrey Pride and Aaddeey are also in high stalls.
Conclusion: this could be a right rough and tumble, with half the field trying to get across early, so they don’t give contrøl of the race to three of the four pace horses who are in low stalls on the far rail: Bright Start, Victory Chime, Winter Reprise
Al Zaraqaan is highly regarded: favourite four times in his last five starts, winning three in a row but unable to cope with 1m 4f in Group 2 nor afterwards with soft ground at Goodwood.
He’s been gelded – and wears cheekpieces first time to hide his blushes – for a race William Haggas has won three times in the decade.
Lucander was second in the Cambridgeshire in the autumn, and prefers York and soft ground. York form on soft: 11. Well below par in the Royal Hunt Cup (firm) when Astro King (always thereabouts in these races) ran second.
Dawaam gets in under the radar, due to go up 8lb, not disgraced in the Wolferton at Royal Ascot. One of many fancied horses drawn wide and needing to get across early.
Andrew Balding, who also runs AW ace Johnny Drama, claims off Good Birthday, putting him 7lb better in than for last year’s race when he was unplaced.
BETDAQ value 9.8 Dawaam, 13.0 Lucander, 29.0 Al Zaraqaan
20.0 SUPREMACY BIG BETDAQ VALUE
⭕ 4.25 Newmarket (July Cup) Back to yesterday’s question: are the three-year-olds good enough to surge past the older horses, with up to 6lb allowance?
The answer cannot be found in the results by stall of this race in the decade: it’s a 5-5 draw! But second-season fillies filled all three places in the Falmouth yesterday .
Roger Teal’s older-horse winner of this last year, Oxted, recent star of the Kings Stand Stakes (Extravagant Kid third), is back for more – now aged 5 – from a high stall in 16.
Starman (stall 4) had to miss Ascot but is four in a row if you delete his bad run on the soft at the same venue in the autumn. Oxted (3rd), Summerghand (4th) and Art Power (6th) can’t beat him on York form at the Dante meeting.
Dragon Symbol (6) was also four in a row until Rohaan pipped him by a nose on heavy ground at Haydock and, again on heavy, Campanelle was awarded the Commonwealth Cup against him in the stewards’ room. The Dragon has never won on turf over 6f.
Rohaan had the odds-on Supremacy last of seven behind him in the April trial for that race at Ascot.
He is now rated 21lb higher for a hat-trick completed in the Wokingham at the royal meeting. That’s a measure of superb improvement and he looks well drawn in 18.
Supremacy is right next door in 19, with Clive Cox confident of putting him back on top of the tree after a long rest.
BETDAQ value 10.0 Rohaan, 20 Supremacy
DAQMAN’S BETS
2.20 York (win 20)
BET 4.25pts win FUJAIRA PRINCE
BET 3.5pts win ILARAAB
3.00 Ascot (win 30 nap)
BET 6pts win TILSIT
3.35 Ascot (win 20)
BET 2.5pts win SHOWALONG
BET 2pts win BOUNDLESS POWER
3.50 Newmarket (win 20)
BET 4.75pts win PEROTTO
BET 2.75pts win FUNDAMENTAL
4.05 York (win 50 bull’s-eye bets)
BET 5.75pts win DAWAAM
BET 4pts win LUCANDER
BET 1.75pts win AL ZARAQAN
4.25 Newmarket (win 50 bull’s-eye bets, place win 10)
BET 5pts win ROHAAN
BET 2.5pts win and place SUPREMACY
