BRITISH CHAMPIONS DAY GUIDE: Continuing the day-by-day form and facts guide to the five championship races at Ascot on Saturday. Check them out in Daqman as follows:
YESTERDAY: 1.20 Ascot, Saturday, British Champions Long Distance Cup
TODAY: 1.55 Ascot, Saturday, British Champions Sprint
TOMORROW: 2.35 Ascot, Saturday, British Champions Fillies And Mares
THURSDAY: 3.15 Ascot, Saturday, British Champions Mile.
FRIDAY: 3.55 Ascot, Saturday, Champion Stakes, Middle Distance
ROSSA RYAN ON THE NAP: Rossa Ryan rates the Betdaq Betting Exchange nap at Yarmouth on a filly that loves the track and improved for a longer trip the last day.
KINROSS IS BACK FOR MORE
⭕ 1.55 Ascot, Saturday (British Champions Sprint, 6f) Most winners in the decade had been Group 3 players at best until Kinross (pictured below) raised the bar in 2022 after taking the Group-1 Foret (7f) at Longchamp.
Last year, after 6f defeats in the Jubilee at Royal Ascot and then the July Cup, he came back to form with a 7f double at Goodwood and York but in the 2023 running of this Ascot race, in the last few yards to a 40-1 winner.
Just two clear favourites have scored in the decade and, surprise surprise, they were Group-1 winners Muhaarar and Kinross. Muhaarar was also a 7f winner in the Greenham trial.
117 KINROSS Now 7, has won only Group-2 races since 2022, and his rivals on Saturday could include:
117 MILL STREAM Beat Swingalong in the July Cup but four-lengths 5th in the Maurice De Gheest behind Lazzat, Exxtra, Beauvatier and Flora Of Bermuda
115 MONTASSIB A 7f winner last year; well beaten by Mill Stream in the Spring but beat Kinross at Newcastle and won the Haydock Sprint Cup, giving 2lb to 114-rated Kind Of Blue, with 109 Unequal Love (rec 3lb) a further length back third.
111 SPYCATCHER Won the Meautry (very soft) at Deauville in August from James’s Delight and Beauvatier, both in receipt of 3lb.
110 ART POWER Last year’s winner but seven now and behind in races won by Mill Stream (twice) and Montassib, finishing last of 16 at Haydock.
STAY AFLOAT WITH ROSSA
⭕ 4.15 Yarmouth today (1m 4f soft) Afloat has form here at Yarmouth of 1131, picking up a 5lb penalty when she went clear the last day.
But that was her first try this year beyond 10 furlongs and it was compensation for her bad luck in the previous race, beaten a neck when the rider lost his irons in the closing stages.
Talk about trying to strike while the iron’s hot today. Her style of running for that success only eight days ago has Rossa Ryan written all over it.
She is now a class-4, maybe even class 3, yet able to remain at this class-5 level and on the same track! I think that’s her luck turned.
⭕ 4.58 Newcastle (1m 2f Tapeta) After he was bumped out of it (as can often happen at Goodwood) in August, they found out how to ride Celtic Warrior and he was beaten only a neck at Epsom.
He was backed again for the third successive time at Chester last month, but he got bogged down in heavy ground.
⭕ 5.03 Leicester (7f class-3 heavy) Mahato, a winner on soft ground on his debut, struggled to get on himself on terms over 6f after a lay-off on the hell-for-leather Kempton AW track. This should suit.
Spirit Genie has a welter burden but returned to form and won a class 3 on heavy at Haydock in September; you can’t get a surface heavier than that, except here at Leicester!
DAQMAN’S BETS
4.15 Yarmouth (win 10, nap)
BET 8.3pts win AFLOAT
4.58 Newcastle (win 20)
BET 4.4pts win CELTIC WARRIOR
5.03 Leicester (both win 20)
BET 2pts win MAHATO
BET 5.7pts win SPIRIT GENIE
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