NAPS HAT-TRICK WITH 10-3 SHOT: Daqman completed a hat-trick of naps yesterday, just a few days after a gold banker bet on the Derby winner. Journey (WON 10-3) made virtually all at Newbury, going clear in the final couple of furlongs. The winning best-bets trio was:
WON 10-11 Galileo Gold (nap)
WON 9-10 Tamadhor (banker)
WON 10-3 Journey (nap)
* TODAY: Daqman takes his pick of six meetings in England, as he bids for consecutive winning nap number four today, and to add to the 82 points profit from five winning days out of six. He finds bets at 8.4, 12.5 and 14.0 on BETDAQ.
* TOMORROW: The Daqman v Pricewise challenge returns at Sandown and York, with the score this season Daqman 37, Pricewise 9 (overall 178-82).
* SUNDAY: The latest on Royal Ascot, plus the Cork Derby and Munster Oaks, and from Chantilly, the Prix de Diane (French Oaks).
* MONDAY: The BETDAQ Windsor evening meeting, previewed race by race by Daqman, who already his eye on the maiden race (see below).
* TUESDAY: Royal Ascot Day One. The big meeting starts with the Queen Anne, the Kings Stand and the St James’s Palace Stakes.
BOARDING PASS FOR THE BETDAQ BOAT
You’ve got to keep up! Check on the results as they happen, or you might miss a treat. Like a 7-2 winner.
I warned yesterday that Speedy Boarding (WON 7-2) would be a ‘wee bit boosted’ if my nap, Journey (WON 10-3), could win the previous race at Newbury, the pair having fought out a desperately close finish at Goodwood.
Journey didn’t just win. The filly, ridden by Frankie Dettori, scooted clear by nearly four lengths under hand riding. It wasn’t a wee boost but a massive affirmation of the form.
The Newbury crowd of ostriches didn’t seem to notice and allowed Speedy Boarding to start 7-2 for the Listed stakes race. She looked powerful in slamming the Ribblesdale entry from Ireland, Hot Sauce.
Can that Goodwood maiden complete a hat-trick? The third home behind Speedy Boarding and Journey was Syrdarya, Ralph Beckett’s well-bred sort – by Galileo out of a Selkirk mare – who wasn’t put into the race until the later stages.
If you’re catching the boat along the river to Windsor on Monday night, look out for Syrdarya in the BETDAQ.com £20 Free Bet Maiden Stakes (8.20), one of four BETDAQ-sponsored races that evening.
SMOOTH AS SILK AND MORE JOURNEY FORM
2.40 Sandown The Aussies and the Americans will descend on Royal Ascot next week and envy the sweeping straight and glorious fast turf but, take them off for another day’s racing elsewhere, maybe the hills and dales, or twists and turns of Epsom or Windsor, and they invariably gasp: ‘Your tracks are not normal!’
Royal Silk, Arethusa and Black Cherry – in market order – have something in common which makes life difficult for the backer in this race at Sandown. All won their last heat at Goodwood.
Goodwood form doesn’t always translate to a ‘normal’ track but, then, Sandown has its similarities, both right-handed, both having an uphill finish.
The difference between the three winners is that only Royal Silk has scored over a mile, and she looked very cool in controlling her race that day.
You could argue that Royal Silk is a continuation of the rise and rise of the Journey and Speedy Boating form. The third filly behind her at Goodwood had earlier pipped Journey at Leicester.
The question mark is whether Theydon Bois’ 50-1 defeat of Deep Blue Sea (Frankie Dettori) at Newmarket was a fluke, and whether it amounts to anything.
Dettori will be determined to overturn the nose by which he was put out that day.. or Rosie Jessop on Theydon Bois will rub his nose in it again!
3.15 Sandown Team Hannon is looking for a hat-trick here, after landing two favourites, and the Canford Cliffs colt, Whitecliff Park (5.2 on BETDAQ early mouse), should come on a ton from his Newbury maiden behind the same stable’s very smart King Of Rooks.
But Inherent Vice, a Kodiac, was third in that race, despite being slowly away, and the seeming Hannon second string, Burningfivers (18.0 offers), is by Paco Boy, like Canford Cliffs, a Hannon champion in his day.
EVENTS COULD SHOW 12.5 WAS TOO BIG
3.50 Sandown Chain of Events has already won this for two different stables and will have been quietly ‘got up’ for the race again, which explains his 12.5 on BETDAQ as I write.
Field Of Fame is the likely favourite but didn’t improve at York on his defeat by the same horse, Mahsoob, at Newbury earlier.
My stakes saver is Rembrandt Van Rijn, who’s done his winning anti-clockwise, in lower class, but with some authority, and could still be on the upgrade.
4.20 Sandown Paul Hanagan was complimentary about Muntadab, the way he responded to being switched and making his challenge at Lingfield, and he may have been let off for this handicap debut.
Open The Red was also impressive in handling his field and the cambers of Goodwood and has already won at the trip, whereas the extra quarter-mile is an experiment with Muntadab on breeding.
The one I like is Compton Mill (14.0 on BETDAQ as I write), who gave weight to two winners and beat them over a mile at Chelmsford. His breeding says the further he goes the better he’ll be. There’s just a question mark over the ground.
QUINN TO CONTINUE THE TREND TO SUCCESS
3.40 York David O’Meara, who has saddled the winner of this after two years running, has He’s No Saint (offers of 8.4) having his third start for the stable, 16lb below his rating of a year ago for David Marnane.
Kalk Bay, Regal Dan and Poole Harbour have not won since 2012, and Mehdi since 2011. Sunraider and Rex Imperator have not scored beyond 6f, and Almuheet has won only his maiden.
Excellent Guest is well handicapped again but is probably aimed at a Royal Ascot handicap. He’s only ever won at Ascot and Yarmouth.
4.40 York Looking at the front of the market, Chivers has only ever won with cut in the ground, Ridgeway Storm only ever on a man-made surface, and Saved By The Bell was well adrift of my selection at the York Dante meeting.
That selection, Trendsetter, was only third that day but it was a trip too far, and he is ‘unbeaten’ in three starts over this afternoon’s distance, if you look at it this way .
He won at Redcar in October and was the ‘moral’ first run back on the Flat in April, narrowly beaten, giving weight to the winner, and then scored at Chester, eased down. Trainer John Quinn is in top form.
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked 1 to 9)
BET 6pts win (nap) ROYAL SILK (2.40 Sandown)
BET 4pts win WHITECLIFF PARK, and 1pt win and place BURNINGFIVERS (3.15 Sandown)
BET 3pts win HE’S NO SAINT (3.40 York)
BET 2pts win and place CHAIN OF EVENTS, and 1.5pts win (stakes saver) REMBRANDT VAN RIJN (3.50 Sandown)
BET 2pts win and place COMPTON MILL, and 5pts win (stakes saver) MUNTADAB (4.20 Sandown)
BET 6pts win TRENDSETTER (4.40 York)
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