150-1 WIN AMONG ASCOT SHOCKS: Punters took another pasting at Royal Ascot yesterday with winners at 18-1, 50-1 and 150-1; just one successful favourite – and a handicapper won the Gold Cup! This follows 20-1, 22-1, 25-1 and two at 10-1 on Wednesday after 14-1, 16-1 and 33-1 on the opening day. The Norfolk Stakes paid a one-two of £5,369!
BIG-VALUE BETDAQ TO THE RESCUE: Such results haven’t change the bookmaker overrounds, which yesterday hit 133%, 135% and 137%, with 77 runners in those three races. But courage mon ami! Six BETDAQ total percentages for morning offers today were 104, 102, 106, 106, 102 and 100%.
COURAGE MON AMI! New for the final two days: the Courage Kicker.
KEANE TO SHOW ALBANY ZING
⭕ 2.30 Royal Ascot (Albany Stakes, 6f) STATS and facts: Daqman last Friday.
Roger Varian knows what it takes to win the Albany (he even got a favourite home among his two strikes in the decade!) and he reckons the stiff six will suit Jabaara, already a winner in the wide open spaces of the Rowley Mile course.
The third horse home followed up with a Goodwood success, and Jabaara in stall 18 will run for us on one side, while in the numbers favoured this week – 5, 6, 7, 8 – on the low side, Porta Fortuna and Navassa Island, one-two at Naas, are neck and neck again.
Navassa Island, half-sister to Cheveley Park winner, Lezoo, was sold for 240,000gns this year to a breeders group called the Zingteam. Ridden by Colin Keane and drawn 3.
Flaccianello is a red wine from Tuscany. Related to Dubai Millenium on the dam’s side. Richard Fahey has some good two-year-olds.. and the jockey in form, Rossa Ryan. Flaccianello drawn 10.
BETDAQ value 5.8 Navassa Island, 8.8 Jabaara Courage Kicker 23.0 Flaccianello
ONLY MAGIC CAN BAR THE BEAR
⭕ 3.05 Royal Ascot (Commonwealth Cup, 6f) STATS and facts: Daqman last Friday.
FORTUNE COOKIE Little Big Bear, the Euro-champion two-year-old, bounced back in the Sandy Lane (good to firm at Haydock).
He comfortably beat Shouldbvebeenaring, and the third, Bradsell, nine lengths behind him, has super-franked the form by beating Highfield Princess in the King’s Stand on Tuesday.
Breeders Cup Juvenile Sprint winner at Keeneland in November, Mischief Magic had earlier been behind The X O and Bradsell here at Ascot but today’s faster ground will be in his favour.
Sakheer, back to the 6f of his Mill Reef win from running in the 2,000 Guineas, is in a similar situation to Lezoo, back to the 6f of her Cheveley Park success, from her 1,000 Guineas bid.
The pair were given equal ratings of 114 but, of course, the filly, Lezoo, gets 3lb from Sakheer.
Noble Style has already tried the very same thing, back to 6f at Newbury from his sixth in the 2,000: he was beaten into third behind Shaquille
Betdaq Betting Exchange 2.06 Little Big Bear Courage Kickers 10 Lezoo, 50 Mischief Magic
AL NAFIR A STRONG TRAVELER
⭕ 3.40 Royal Ascot (Duke Of Edinburgh Stakes, 1m 4f handicap) STATS and facts: Daqman last Friday.
Brother to the brilliant Ghaiyyath, Al Nafir has had his problems but goes well fresh and travels strongly in his races.
The cheekpieces he wore when runner-up in the 2021 Cesarewitch trial (2m 2f firm) after a run back over 1m 6f are back on Live Your Dream; stays that far, yet went with the pace, beaten just half a length in his recent prep at Haydock (1m 4f firm)
BETDAQ value 8.1 Al Nafir Courage Kicker 16 Live Your Dream
REMARQUEE’S SECOND CHANCE
⭕ 4.20 Royal Ascot (Coronation Stakes, 1m) STATS and facts: Daqman last Friday.
FORTUNE COOKIE: Tahiyra is half a stone in front of this field, beaten only half a length in the Newmarket 1,000 Guineas and winner of the Irish version when she cleared away from the pacesetting Meditate.
Comhra, third, was twice short of room that day; otherwise might have nabbed Meditate for second.
Sounds Of Heaven and Queen For You were one-two at the Dante meeting at York, separated a short-head.
They could finish in that order again, with Jessica Harrington having won the Coronation Stakes twice (2018 and 2020).
Fred Darling winner Remarquee flopped in the 1,000 Guineas but is worth a pound first time on a sound surface
Betdaq value Courage Kickers 24 Comhra, 28 Remarquee
VELAZQUEZ IS AMERICA’S ACE
⭕ 5.00 Sandringham Stakes Johnny Murtagh didn’t just rave to ITV about America’s current ace John Velazquez’ amazing ride on Crimson Advocate to win the Queen Mary a nose, he booked him for Clounmacon in this, yet another cavalry-charge mile at Ascot this week.
Clounmacon has followed the same route as Murtagh’s gambled-on winner, Create Belief, in this race in 2021.
Marksman Queen has been backed under Hollie Doyle but the horse that beat her at Kempton, Tamarama, was rubbish yesterday, though admittedly that’s good form for Ascot this week!
Richard Hannon won this last year and his team got a huge boost yesterday when Witch Hunter won at 50-1. Magical Sunset then, dropping from the Pattern, for the low numbers. The impressive Coppice for the high.
BETDAQ value 9.9 Coppice. Courage Kickers 16 Clounmacon, 28 Magical Sunset
STAR CAN SHINE OVER STEEL
⭕ 5.35 Royal Ascot (King Edward V11 Stakes, 1m 4f) STATS and facts: Daqman last Friday.
King Of Steel, Derby runner-up to Auguste Rodin, was well boosted yesterday when the Epsom sixth, Waipiro, 10 lengths behind him, won the Group-3 Hampton Court Stakes.
But Artistic Star, a notable wise-owls’ punt in the Derby (7th), was unsuited by the track, but finishing well. Arrest (10th) had won the Chester Vase on soft ground
Continuous was well beaten in the French Derby but the winner, Ace Impact, was exceptional that day, stringing them right out in course-record time.
BETDAQ value 6.6 Artistic Star, 8.6 Continuous
DAQMAN’S BETS
2.30 Royal Ascot (win 20)
BET 4pts win NAVASSA ISLAND
BET 2.5pts win JABAARA
3.05 FORTUNE COOKIE
BET 20pts win LITTLE BIG BEAR
3.40 Royal Ascot (win 40)
BET 5pts win AL NAFIR
4.20 FORTUNE COOKIE
BET 20pts win TAHIYRA
5.00 Royal Ascot (win 30)
BET 3pts win COPPICE
5.35 Royal Ascot (win 40)
BET 7pts win ARTISTIC STAR
BET 5pts win CONTINUOUS
COURAGE KICKERS
2.30 Royal Ascot (win 50)
BET 2pts w/p FLACCIANELLO
3.05 Royal Ascot (win 50)
BET 5pts win LEZOO
BET 1pt w/p MISCHIEF MAGIC
3.40 Royal Ascot (win 30)
BET 2pts w/p LIVE YOUR DREAM
4.20 Royal Ascot (win 30)
BET 1pt win REMARQUEE
5.00 Royal Ascot (win 50 and win 30)
BET 3.25pts win CLOUNMACON
BET 2pts w/p MAGICAL SUNSET
6.10 Royal Ascot (win 50)
BET 2pts w/p HISPANIC at 25.0
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