DAQMAN NAPS A CLASSIC NEWCOMER: Daqman has seldom if ever napped a newcomer before but it brought him a 20-point haul from Chantilly Lace at Salisbury yesterday, a two-year-old filly against the colts. By Lope De Vega, whose son, Look de Vega, is one of the favourites for the Arc, she cruised clear after getting company from the same yard’s grey colt Brize Norton.
Chantilly Lace will target the Fred Darling trial next Spring with the Classics in mind. Look out for Daqman’s top two-year-olds following the Arc meeting, with a final revision after Champions Day.
TWO WINNERS OUT OF THREE BETS: Daqman doubled up in the very next race, music to his ears when Bob Mali brought his profit on the day to 28 points from two winners out of three bets.
WON 6-4 CHANTILLY LACE (nap)
WON 11-10 BOB MALI
IRISH TRIO NOT WELL DRAWN
⚠️ UPDATE Daqman has saved the Irish contingent until last. Get your teeth into his Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Arc de Triomphe stats and form guide for tlhe Betdaq Betting Exchange action.
But Aidan O‘Brien hasn’t got the better ground for Auguste Rodin, so he’s out.
And the draw is a negative for the remainder of the Irish team. Best drawn of the fancied horses in the betting are Bluestocking, Aventure, Sosie and Look De Vega.
The contest between the countries lines up as France 9, Ireland 3, England 2, Germany 1, Japan 1. Sixteen runners.
AL RIFFA 9 stall (Joseph O‘Brien, 4) Sire: Wootton Bassett out of a Galileo mare. Gold Cup stamina in the pedigree. Won the National Stakes (soft) as a 2yo; 2nd Eclipse in July on soft and won the Berlin grand prix.
LOS ANGELES 10 (Aidan O’Brien, 3) Sire: Camelot. Third in the Epsom Derby; won the Irish Derby; a 2yo winner on soft.
CONTINUOUS 14 (Aidan O’Brien, 4) Sire: Heart’s Cry out of a Galileo mare. Won 2023 Great Voltigeur and St Leger (soft) and 5th in the Arc.
🇫🇷 ARC DE TRIOMPHE: DRAW
♦️ ARC winners by stall (2012-2023): 2, 6, 15, 3, 14, 12, 2, 6, 3, 4, 1, 6, 8. Two of the three high-stall wins came on good ground when it was easier to travel round the pack. Fantastic Moon (2), Bluestocking (3) and Survie (6) are in the winningmost stalls, 2, 3 and 6.
♦️ DRAW/HORSE/JOCKEY/WINNERS in European countries this season
1 ZARAKEM Cristian Demuro 114
2 FANTASTIC MOON Rene Piechulek
3 BLUESTOCKING Rossa Ryan 167
4 AVENTURE Stephane Pasquier 61
5 SOSIE Maxime Guyon 199
6 SURVIE Tom Marquand 114
7 DELIUS Ioritz Mendizabal
8 LOOK DE VEGA Ronan Thomas 32
9 AL RIFFA Yutaka Take
10 LOS ANGELES Ryan Moore 117
11 SHIN EMPEROR Ryusei Sakai
12 SEVENNA’S KNIGHT Mickael Barzalona 162
13 HAYA ZARK William Buick 92
14 CONTINUOUS Christophe Soumillon 61
15 SUNWAY Oisin Murphy 192
16 MQSE DE SEVIGNE Alexis Pouchin 126
♦️ AUGUSTE RODIN withdrawn
THE SO-VERSATILE EAGLE
⭕ 2.47 Ascot A gloomy, cloudy day forecast and the Frankel gelding Hutchence has run twice on soft or heavy and failed to reach the first four.
Firm ground and blinkers first time helped him bag back-to-back wins in the summer but put him up 13lb and he is the only three-year-old in the race.
Maxident won first time out but in 10 races since has failed to trouble the judge and he seems stuck on a handicap mark that’s just beyond him. Can Oisin Murphy change his luck or, indeed, his temperament?
Wonderful Eagle has won three on the soft in Germany for Henk Grewe and five over hurdles, one on heavy, for Philip Hobbs. Success has ranged from 1m 2f to 2m 5.5f and he has recently scored back to back, Flat and hurdles.
True Legend has run in the Brown Jack Stakes at Ascot, the Northumberland Plate at Newcastle and he Summer Handicap at Goodwood.
BECKETT AND RYAN AGAIN
⭕ 3.57 Ascot (Noel Murless Stakes) Ralph Beckett and Rossa Ryan again, so good with fillies, climbing the ratings 22lb with Allonsy and now asking her to step up by a quarter of a mile.
She’s also up two grades to Listed level and has never won on the soft, though she did score at Epsom on good to soft in a class-5 handicap.
It’s asking a lot, but confidence in her has always been there, favourite seven races in succession.
Another who has been climbing the ranks is Subsequent, 13lb higher now after scoring at this trip on the July Course and not getting the pace he needs, going down narrowly in the class-2 Mallard at Doncaster.
Tabletalk was 10th in the Derby. Other than that he has no experience of cut in the ground and it was firm when he won the Melrose at York.
Go Daddy has been third at this sort of trip, including in the German Derby and the Geoffrey Freer Stakes at Newbury, and is a winner on soft ground.
CRYSTAL CLEAR
⭕ 8.00 Newcastle Rebecca Menzies has her yard in cracking form at the moment with five winners from the last 22 runners – three from her last four runners at Newcastle have also won with the other one refusing to race.
I think her mare here Kyber Crystal has an outstanding chance of boosting the stats even further. She makes a quick reappearance (off the same mark) after finishing second at Musselburgh on Wednesday when she looked a little unlucky having struggled for room.
We can debate whether she is a moral ‘winner without a penalty’ but undoubtedly remains well handicapped off her current mark.
She’s mainly been kept to the turf but ran well on her only previous start here when fourth last month.
Danny Tudhope rode a four-timer here last night boosting his sensational run of current form to 11111161185.
His ride here Musical Diva might be the danger. She has paid the handicapping price after winning back to back races in January but is edging down the weights.
DAQMAN’S BETS
2.47 Ascot (win 12, nap)
BET 2.1pts win WONDERFUL EAGLE
3.57 Ascot (win 12 each)
BET 6pts win SUBSEQUENT
BET 1.5pts win ALLONSY
8.00 Newcastle (win 10)
BET 5.7pts win KYBER CRYSTAL
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