BRITISH CHAMPIONS DAY GUIDE: Saturday’s races on Champions Day at Ascot are Daqman previewed from today until Thursday as follows;
PREVIEW TODAY:
1.30 Ascot: British Champions Long Distance Cup.
2.05 Ascot: British Champions Sprint
TOMORROW:
2.45 British Champions Fillies And Mares
3.25 Queen Elizabeth 11 Stakes, British Champions Mile.
THURSDAY:
4.05 Saturday, Champion Stakes.
TRAWLERMAN TRUE THREAT
⭕ 1.30 Ascot, Saturday (British Champions Long Distance Cup, 2m) Winner in 2023 and third to Kyprios last year, Trawlerman bids to make this year’s record four in a row.
He beat Sweet William in both the Gold Cup here at Ascot at the royal meeting and the Lonsdale at York.
But biggest feather in his cap would be for him to take this first running of the Long Distance Cup as a Group 1.
Three-year-olds have scored three times in the early part of the century, though not for 15 years.
That hasn’t stopped Aidan O’Brien supplementing the appropriately named Stay True, who followed the Leger route, with just three efforts since a debut success in the Spring.
Runner-up in the Lingfield Derby Trial and fourth in the Great Voltigeur – little more than a length of the winner – he ultimately finished third in the Leger behind stablemate Scandinavia, as Galileo’s last runner in a British Classic.
YOU NEED A 7f SPRINTER
⭕ 2.05 Ascot, Saturday (British Champions Sprint, 6f) Last year’s three-year-old winner of this, Kind Of Blue had never won a Group race and was one of six outsiders to score since 2017 at 10-1 twice, 16-1, 28-1, 33-1 and 40-1.
Most winners in the decade had been Group 3 players at best until Kinross 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, he gave way in the last few yards to 40-1 Art Power, who returned to form the last day at the Curragh.
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.
Summing up that past history, you would be wise to look among the 7f+ winners: Lazzat, Montassib, Inisherin, King Cuan, Quinault, and of course Kind Of Blue again.
13.0 LAKERS DOWN IN CLASS
⭕ 4.44 Leicester, today The specialist trip of 7f seems more and more popular this year, and there are 13 previous distance winners lined up here.
But only two of them have won at Leicester, Kisskodi (class 5 on firm) and It Just Takes Time, as winner of this race last year on heavy ground.
Kisskodi has shot a stone-and-a-half up the handicap with four wins out of six starts since the last day in May. He’s never won in today’s class but he’s certainly earned his place.
Aurora Majesty has progressed well but cheekpieces first time will need to squeeze a bit more from him off 9st 12lb.
David Egan, who won with Lakers on the July Course, gets the mount back again for the first time today. BETDAQ 13.0, dropped in grade.
Crimson Spirit landed a summer hat-trick and his defeat of Bellarchi at Musselburgh in their Royal Gold Cup in August, giving 9lb, got a big boost on the same track yesterday when Bellarchi scored 6lb higher. Betdaq Betting Exchange 29.0 (four places 3.79).
The lightly raced (2-3) Sarab Star could be anything after making all at Kempton but does he deserve the flood of support this morning?
★ NAP OF THE DAY I chose between Stumps Or Slips (2.21 Market Rasen): dropping down in grade to recover his form; the only distance winner in the race.
And Seahouses (3.21 Market Rasen): Ran away from them under Isabelle Ryder here in February when fresh.
Has had another long holiday and 7lb claimer Isabelle is 1121411 in October. BETDAQ 6.6.
DAQMAN’S BETS on Betdaq Betting Exchange
★ 2.21 Market Rasen (win 12, nap)
BET 7pts win STUMPS OR SLIPS
3.21 Market Rasen (win 22)
BET 4pts win SEAHOUSES
4.44 Leicester (win 30 and 4 places)
BET 1pt win and 2pts place CRIMSON SPIRIT
BET 2pts to win 24 LAKERS
BET 6pts to win 10 SARAB STAR
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