60 POINTS PROFIT AS DAQMAN GOES 50 UP AGAINST PRICEWISE: Fifty up! Daqman won three feature races yesterday – north, south and over the water in Ireland – two of them in the value challenge to Pricewise of the Racing Post. They took him into a 50-24 lead for winning returns this Flat season, with Daqman 409 points clear of his archrival to 10-point stakes. He made 60.70 points profit on the day from all bets.
WON 17-2 WITHHOLD (Newbury Marsh Cup)
WON 5-1 CASABLANCA MIX (Market Rasen Summer Plate bull’s-eye bet)
WON 7-2 STAR CATCHER (Curragh Irish Oaks)
THE STATE OF PLAY
Daqman 50 Pricewise 24 (Daqman 409 points clear to 10 stakes)
Bull’s-eye naps (6-11) 269 points up to recommended stakes
Supernaps (15-20) 126 points up to 20 point stakes
TODAY’S HEADLINES
🔹 GET SET FOR KING GEORGE SPECIAL
🔹 PRAYING FOR RAIN IN HOT CONTEST
🔹 ALI KNOCKOUT! NUNTHORPE’S NEXT
🔹 SOLDIER THE CALL IN THE SAPPHIRE
🔹 RED FOR GO! DONNACHA’S CUP OF TEA
GET SET FOR KING GEORGE SPECIAL
⚠️ HEADS UP It’s King George week next week and Daqman will be checking out the opposition to super mare Enable in his stats-and-facts ABC guide which yesterday had Star Catcher (WON 7-2) on top for the Irish Oaks.
On the opening day, the Friday at Ascot, the maiden stakes (2.25) for two-year-olds is set to unveil two potential stamina stars.
So, over the 6f, it would normally be a watching brief for Ethic (William Haggas) and No Show (Richard Hannon), related to Doncaster Cup and Irish Derby winners respectively, but Ethic has already been placed so seems to have inherited the mix of speed and stamina that breeders strive for!
⚠️ HEADS UP Dark Regard shaped really well, not punished on the soft ground, after the gamble, Byline, went away from her at Hamilton on Friday. Daqman spotted her on the day and, like connections, was very happy with her attitude.
⚠️ HEADS UP Daqman continues to check out the two-year-olds next week. In a two-day stint, he researches where the 2020 Classic winners are likely to be seen. He checks out the juvenile ratings and follows their paths to glory.
PRAYING FOR RAIN IN HOT CONTEST
2.00 The Curragh Blissful has been running green: just needs the penny to drop, and that’s any time now. She’s a full sister to Gustav Klimt, who got off the mark in the colts equivalent of today’s race in 2017.
Irish Guineas winner Misty For Me and Yorkshire Oaks scorer Tapestry were both winners of this fillies’ maiden for Aidan O’Brien.
Blissful, French Rain, Lady Maura, Sable Camp and Tasalka are all entered in the Moyglare. Na Bilanta Beo, daughter of English and Irish 1,000 winner, Finsceal Beo, is entered in everything!
This is a race to watch more than once. Keep looking for another ‘living legend’ as the form unfolds.
French Rain’s sire Siyouni won first time on a racecourse; so did the dam’s sire, Raven’s Pass. Worth a fun pound or a euro at 5.6 on BETDAQ this morning, with Ger Lyons team flying and Colin Keane doing the steering.
ALI KNOCKOUT! NUNTHORPE’S NEXT
2.50 Deauville (Prix Robert Papin) Still with two-year-olds, the Robert Papin has gone to England five years out of six but there’s been nothing of the calibre of Christiane Head’s filly, Special Duty, who won in 2009 and went on to take both English and French 1,000 Guineas.
The form of Simon Crisford’s Norfolk Stakes winner, A’Ali, has been boosted and Frankie Dettori, who again takes the ride, has been instrumental in pointing Ali at the Nunthorpe at York next month.
Consistent and with a better draw, Jolie is the obvious danger, having run Wesley Ward’s Maven (swerved Ascot) to a head at Chantilly, but she probably needs rain to make an impression on A’Ali.
SOLDIER THE CALL IN THE SAPPHIRE
3.10 The Curragh (Sapphire Stakes) English trainers are going for a five-timer in this and are eight out of 10 in the decade.
They saddle the market leaders here, with Archie Watson’s Soldier’s Call attempting back-to-back wins for the three-year-olds from stall 10. He’ll need to conserve his energy behind the pace of El Astronaute, who is likely to hit the gate running from 8.
El Astronaute made all in the Rockingham Handicap over CD three weeks ago, dragging the high numbers along with him, including Rapid Reaction (third) who now meets his conqueror 18lb worse off, as this is a conditions race.
The question is could El Astronaute the handicapper have finished less than three lengths off Blue Point in the Kings Stand, as did Soldier’s Call (when Equilateral was seventh)?
Soldier’s Call, around 2-1 today, was earlier third to Garrus at York but now has a handy 5lb with which to overturn a half-length defeat. It seems to be his race for the taking.
RED FOR GO! DONNACHA’S CUP OF TEA
3.45 The Curragh Another Group 2 which the Irish have kept at home for the past four seasons, three of the winners trained A P O’Brien.
Last year he saddled Magical, who immediately stepped up to Group 1 and won the British Champions Fillies and Mares in October, twice running Enable to less than a length.
Magical came to this race off 111 and only William Haggas’s raider, Move Swiftly (112), could match that. But the rain which threatens my 95.0 Shane Lowry at Portrush has failed to reach The Curragh, so the move was swiftly to remove her from the scratch sheet.
Move Swiftly had stepped up from a class-5 novice winner at Wolverhampton to Duke Of Cambridge Group 2 conqueror of Rawdaa and I Can Fly at Royal Ascot.
Three-year-olds are 5-4 up in this race in nine seasons, but Aidan O’Brien’s trio of Goddess, Coral Beach and Chablis, have little to recommend them, though
Chablis (Donnacha O’Brien) and Goddess were third and fourth in the Naas Oaks Trial.
Donnacha now prefers 3.8 offer Red Tea for brother Joseph. She was well in rear of Move Swiftly on soft ground at Royal Ascot but had been third here at the Curragh to Beshaayir, just a long neck off I Can Fly on firm ground, so the form ties in and she would have given Move Swiftly plenty to do had they clashed.
DAQMAN’S BETS
2.00 The Curragh (win 10)
BET 2pts win FRENCH RAIN
2.50 Deauville (supernap)
BET 20pts win A’ALI
2.55 Redcar (win 10)
BET 3pts win MINA VAGANTE
3.10 The Curragh (win 10)
BET 5pts win SOLDIER’S CALL
3.45 The Curragh (win 10)
BET 3.5pts win RED TEA
5.15 Redcar (win 20)
BET 2pts win and place ROYAL PROSPECT
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