DAQMAN KEEPS ON WINNING, FULL STOP: Winner-a-day Daqman had the Oxford Comma in his list yesterday after the weekend Fortune Cookies double of Goliath and Charyn.
Monday: 4 winners in a long weekend
WON 6-5 OXFORD COMMA
Sunday at Longchamp
WON 6-5 GOLIATH (FORTUNE COOKIE)
Saturday at Ascot
WON 13-8 CHARYN (FORTUNE COOKIE)
WON 8-11 KYPRIOS (supernap)
TODAY’S STORY: Fingers crossed for the final two-year-old tests of the season on soft ground. Daqman checks out the leading sires before publishing his Three-Year-Olds of 2025.
TODAY’S BETS: Best race of the day is the Group 3 for fillies at the Curragh but Aidan O’Brien’s Giselle is priced prohibitively. Daqman opts for bets at Yarmouth, Exeter and Newcastle (Perth abandoned).
HE’S THE DADDY OF THEM ALL..
⭕ 2.40 Doncaster, Saturday (Futurity Trophy, Doncaster): We read almost daily about super-sires Frankel, Dubawi, Justify and Lope De Vega delivering the cream of the crop this season.
But, in fact, Wootton Bassett could be top sire of the juveniles with £2m in juvenile earnings after Saturday’s Futurity at Doncaster provides a breeders’ classic.
Apples And Bananas and Tennessee Stud, both with Joseph O’Brien, plus Serengeti (Aidan O’Brien), Detain (for Team Gosden) and Benevento are all sons of Wootton Bassett.
Matauri Bay (Ralph Beckett), Mississippi River (Aidan O’Brien) and Royal Playwright (Andrew Balding) represent Lope De Vega.
Delacroix (Aidan O’Brien) and Trinity College (both Aidan O’Brien) and Nebras (Gosden) are Dubawi; Isambard Brunel (Aidan O’Brien) is a lone justification for Justify, whose son, City of Troy, tops the 2024 earnings with £2m.
Likely favourite in the Futurity is Wimbledon Hawkeye, the James Owen stable’s winner of the Royal Lodge who represents top-line form as the Kameko colt who also came second to The Lion In Winter at York.
⭕ 3.10 Newbury, Saturday (Horris Hill Stakes) Sole player for Charlie Appleby and Godolphin, the unbeaten Anno Domini, a son of New Bay, is also engaged in the Futurity
In the Horris Hill, he could clash with another unbeaten colt, Ollie Sangster’s Bob Mali (Sands Of Mali), who loves heavy ground.
ANOTHER WIN FOR ‘BAD FORM’ NICHOLLS
⭕ 2.43 Exeter today Paul Nicholls was very defensive in a TV interview yesterday when quizzed about his ‘quiet start to the season’.
Quite rightly, in my opinion, he brushed it aside saying he was running a lot of ‘babies’ and in any event his current form isn’t THAT bad. How many trainers would complain about a current strike-rate of three winners from their last seven runners?
The maestro jumps trainer should continue to build on that ‘bad form’ with Sorceleur who makes his hurdling debut.
He had useful bumper form. Making all and storming 15 lengths clear to win at Taunton and having the rest of the field well strung out. He then ran with credit when a four length fifth in the Grade 2 bumper at Aintree and this looks a very realistic starting point for the next phase of his career.
The Skeltons run Pony Soprano who shaped well on debut at Sandown when third to Sixmilebridge who was then sent to the Cheltenham Champion Bumper but disappointed back in 17th.
‘MILLY’ ANOTHER FOR FANSHAWE
⭕ 3.40 Yarmouth This 10 furlong handicap looks one of the more competitive races of the day, even with the deflection of forecast favourite Inappropriate.
James Fanshawe had a huge winner on Saturday with Kind Of Blue in the Champions Day Sprint which continued the good recent form of the stable.
His last runner here at Yarmouth was also a winner and he can strike again here with Milliterries who comes into this on the back of an excellent effort, in better class, at Newmarket when fourth to outsider Mrs Twig.
She’s a previous winner on the all-weather and her ability to handle the softer ground today has to be taken on trust – but there’s certainly nothing in her pedigree to suggest she won’t handle (or hopefully improve) for the more testing conditions.
Royal Dream with form figures this season of 9181333523 is proving remarkably consistent for Ed Dunlop but might just need some relief from the handicapper now. He is another one with a ground question mark given he has yet to try soft and his four career wins have all come on the all-weather.
SAINT TOON
⭕ 7.25 Newcastle a bumper nine race card on the Toon and I’ve spotted a bit of value in the seven furlong handicap with No Saint who I’ll play for a WIN 20 return on Betdaq Betting Exchange.
Sam England’s runner was a course and distance runner-up last time out and appeals more than the penalised course and distance winner Barnaby and the maiden Retraction who is dropped back in trip.
DAQMAN’S BETS
2.43 Exeter (win 10, nap)
BET 14.2pts win SORCELEUR
3.40 Yarmouth (win 10)
BET 3.7pts win MILLITERRIES
7.25 Newcastle (win 20)
BET 3.7pts win NO SAINT
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