15-POINT DAQMAN NAP WINS 10 LENGTHS: Daqman’s high-stakes bets don’t just win. They’re in another county! After banker Telescope’s 24-lengths romp, it was stablemate Waila’s turn by 10 lengths yesterday. Yet Waila WON 5-4 against (15 points win).
10.0 DOUBLE-YOUR-MONEY BETDAQ VALUE: Daqman landed the Super Sprint with Peniaphobia (WON 5-1) at 10.0 morning offers on BETDAQ, and Coffee (2nd 4-1 from 10.0) was another big-race value bet.
16 WINNERS IN EIGHT DAYS: Waila and Peniaphobia continued Daqman’s two-winners-a-day spree, which has now reached 16 in eight days. He’s taken his banker bets to 10 up out of 14.
1.30 Maisons-Laffitte (Prix Robert Papin) This two-year-old classic went to England last year – Clive Cox the winning stable – for the first time since 2002, after a streak of five in a row in the 1990s.
Richard Hannon, who runs Anticipated today, won it in 1995
There wasn’t much between Extortionist (Olly Stevens) and Anticipated when they were first and third in the Windsor Castle Stakes but the draw gave them a big advantage that day.
The problem for punters is that the locals are used to cut in the ground. Fillies have a good record in the race and Vorda’s yard seems confident.
But, after his win (and mine) with Peniaphobia yesterday, I will stick with the sire Dandy Man, who got Extortionist out of an Oasis Dream mare. Speed, speed, speed.
3.35 Tipperary So Young, who needs plenty of cut in the ground, has already had five races this year and stablemate Midnight Game (6.8 on BETDAQ this morning) may be more effective on the sound surface.
3.45 The Curragh The Sir Michael Stoute bandwagon rolls on to the Curragh with Dank. I’ve been on three Stoute winners (Along Again, Telescope, Waila) in four days and no losers.
Can Dank keep up the good work? It’s a field of Group-3 horses in a Group-2 race but Dank was very narrowly beaten at the higher level by Duntle at Royal Ascot, after a mighty battle to beat Chigun at Newmarket.
Chigun holds Aloof and Aloof holds Caponata (needs soft) on a sound surface. But the chain of command seems to have Fiesolana at, or near, the top with Dank.
Fiesolana comes out a long way ahead of Aloof on lines through Along Came Casey and Declaration of War.
Mizzava, Say and Bible Belt (long absence) are dropping back from Group 1 but the form in the book is with Dank and Fiesolana. I’ll try for the Stoute four-timer, with a saver on t’other one.
4.45 The Curragh (Rockingham Handicap) Five-year-olds dominate this race (five out of six) and lightweights rarely get a look-in (four of last five winners carried 9st 2lb to 9st 11lb), suggesting quality sprinters win it.
That isolates Joe Eile as ‘the one most likely to’ on the stats, and his stall 5 won for Bubbly Bellini (15lb higher now, needs cut) in this race last year. Joe Eile dead-heated with Bubbly Bellini at Navan in June but that was 6f and that was soft ground.
In the last eight seasons, there have been three winners from stalls 3 and 5 (two) and four from 13 and 15 (three) but there’s never been as big a field as today’s, which is thought to favour the high stalls.
Edward Lynam tells the Racing Post that the likely favourite, Yulong Baoju, has an ‘ok draw’ (in 21) and (tongue in cheek), ‘an ok jockey’, Johnny Murtagh. The smile fades when you learn that only one three-year-old has ever won this race.
Since that winner was trained by Dermot Weld, I’d be much more interested in Johnny Lynch (stall 17 and 15.0 on BETDAQ this morning) but, having dug out my old records, find that five-year-olds are, even stronger, 8 out of 11.
In fact, In Salutem should beat Yulong Baoju on the book but there second and fourth at Fairyouse was over 6f and in a slow time. In Salutem (13.0), a winner over 7f, drops back to 5f here. Then again, Russian Soul has scored up to 1m.
Despite his welter burden, Russian Soul (10.0 this morning) is the pick of the field, suited by the likely fast pace: he got within half a length of the July Cup third, Slade Power, over today’s CD.
DAQMAN’S BETS (to win 20 points each, except stakes savers)
BET 4.7pts win (Special Bet) EXTORTIONIST (1.30 Maisons-Laffitte)
BET 3.4pts win MIDNIGHT GAME (3.35 Tipperary)
BET 12pts win (nap) DANK and 2.5pts win (stakes saver) FIESOLANA (3.45 The Curragh)
BET 13pts win STRONGLY SUGGESTED (4.00 Stratford)
BET 2.2pts win RUSSIAN SOUL, 1.6pts win IN SALUTEM and 1.4pts win JOHNNY LYNCH (4.45 The Curragh)
BET 1.7pts win on each OFFICIALLY MODERN and (stakes saver) SURF AND TURF (5.00 Stratford)
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