DARYZ TO BEAT OMBUDSMAN: Daqman naps Arc winner, Daryz, to beat Ombudsman in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes today (4.20) after a day-one bull’s-eye bet hit the wire when Rayevka – taken at 9.5 on BETDAQ to win 50 points – was caught in the final stride for the Group-1 sprint. Bow Echo beat Gstaad a shorthead in the battle of the 2,000 Guineas winners.
Royal Ascot Day 2 headlines
🔹 VICTORIOUS? IT’S IN DISPUTE
🔹 KEEPING ‘PORT’ ON RIGHT SIDE
🔹 CLAP THUNDER AT BETDAQ 37.0
VICTORIOUS? IT’S IN DISPUTE
🎩 2.30 Royal Ascot (Queen Mary Stakes): The monotony of ‘winner trained Aidan O’Brien’ went within a head of being broken by France, with Australia third, in a truly international King Charles 111 Sprint yesterday.
Today American, French, Irish and Aussie raiders make another sprint, the Queen Mary, a world’s-best test of top two-year-old fillies, won last year by O’Brien with True Love.
George Weaver, former assistant to States-side greats, D Wayne Lucas and Todd Pletcher, won with Crimson Advocate in 2023.
Now New York based Tom Morley, one-time assistant to Jeremy Noseda, wants More Champagne from Crimson Advocate’s jockey Johnny Velazquez, who also scored in 2009 for Wesley Ward, winner again and again in 2015 and 16, and 2022.
Ward books England’s champion, Oisin Murphy, for Shining Moments, but she was slammed more than six lengths by More Champagne at Keeneland, and Ward’s number-one today, Ruiva, clocked a hot time at Keeneland but on dirt, described as ‘sloppy.’
Best guide to US fillies is the Royal Palm at Gulfstream, won by Crimson Advocate and last month dominated by Celtic Dispute for Patrick Biancone, dual Arc-winning trainer now based in Florida, who had the Queen Mary third last year.
Betdaq Betting Exchange Celtic Dispute (Christophe Soumillon) 33.0 to win a head to head with the O’Brien favourite Victorious (Ryan Moore) 6.0, More Champagne 12.5 in third.
KEEPING ‘PORT’ ON RIGHT SIDE
🎩 3.05 Royal Ascot (Queens’ Vase): It’s been a great week already for the sire St Mark’s Basilica, whose daughter, Diamond Necklace, completed the French Guineas and Oaks double.
You could forgive Aidan O’Brien for training Port Of Spain along those lines but the dam’s sire, Duke Of Marmalade, got Gold Cup winner Big Orange.
And Port Of Spain, who was less than two lengths behind Derby winner Christmas Day when they met as two-year-olds, could come into his own today, stepped up to 1m 6f.
Aidan has won this race six times in 13 seasons and chooses to run Port Of Spain from five left in at the declaration stage.
It’s a tough call for twice-raced pair, Galiyan and Point Of Law, who have not long broken their maiden.
Limestone won a 1m 5f Navan Listed (from Asakir) and swerves the Irish Derby for this, looking more like Curragh Cup and Irish St Leger material for Joseph O’Brien, as the son creeps ever closer to the father in plotting the lucrative Group races. Port of Spain is the better drawn.
Betdaq Betting Exchange 4.6 Limestone, 9.6 Port Of Spain
CLAP THUNDER AT BETDAQ 37.0
🎩 5.00 Royal Ascot (Royal Hunt Cup): LAYS LOGIC: only two clear favourites have won in 30 years!
DRAW: We have on record for this Hunt Cup that stalls 4 to 11 have won six times; 20 and above seven.
And yesterday, on the first day, winners by stall from 5f to a mile were: 8, 3, 24, 2, so again rewards on either side and nothing from the middle.
Indalo, La Botte, Scoville and Mister Winston are short-listed in the low numbers, with Classic, Shout and Thunder Run likely lads in the high stalls.
Roger Varian’s grey Indalo (gate 8) is now 7lb higher than when beaten a nose in the Cambridgeshire but went down only a neck (hooded) to Classic over the Newbury mile in May, won the previous year by My Cloud, who went on to take this Hunt Cup for the same Varian stable.
La Botte (5) was an unlucky runner-up in the Britannia at the royal meeting last year but was a long way behind the Cambridgeshire form at Ascot and Goodwood last month.
Mister Winston (10) Down the field in the Cambridgeshire but 2-3 this season after being gelded, both strikes for Oisin Murphy, who remains faithful today.
Shout (26) is one of those who puts punters into two camps: either ‘he’s a trier’ or ‘he’s trying my patience.’ Fourth in the Balmoral in October, when going for an Ascot double. Claimed off today.
Thunder Run (28) returned to form with a big-field second at the Dante meeting in a 1m 2f+ race he’d won the year before but is three times a winner over a mile.
Betdaq Betting Exchange 14.0 Indalo, 29.0 Mister Winston, 37 Thunder Run
DAQMAN’S BETS
on Betdaq Betting Exchange
2.30 Royal Ascot (win-50 bull’s-eye bets)
BET 4.25pts win MORE CHAMPAGNE
BET 1.5pts win and place CELTIC DISPUTE
BET 4pts to win 20 VICTORIOUS
3.05 Royal Ascot (win-50 bull’s-eye bet)
BET 5.75pts win PORT OF SPAIN
BET 4pts (to win 15) LIMESTONE
★ 4.20 Royal Ascot (win 30 nap)
BET 12pts win DARYZ
5.00 Royal Ascot (win-50 bull’s-eye bets)
BET 3.75pts win INDALO
BET 1.75pts win and place MISTER WINSTON
BET 1.35pts win and place THUNDER RUN
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