RETURN OF QUALITY RACING SEES DAQMAN ROLL OUT HIS TOP BETS: Quality racing returns today with the first day of the Ascot King George meeting, which is followed next week by Galway and Goodwood in tandem for a tremendous week of the sport in all its forms: Flat and jumps. You’re likely to see naps every day, bull’s-eye bets (or naps) and supernaps on the days marked below, plus the continuing challenge to Pricewise of the Racing Post.
TODAY’S HEADLINES
🔹 10 DAYS OF ASCOT: GALWAY: GOODWOOD
🔹 MAX READY MADE FOR THE BROWN JACK
🔹 MOORE SWITCHES TO CHARM OFFENSIVE
🔹 TOM TO WIN SNAKES AND LADDER RACE
10 DAYS OF ASCOT: GALWAY: GOODWOOD
Roll up, roll up for an amazing double bill. The great summer festivals of Goodwood and Galway compete for quality from next Monday to the following Sunday in a week-long galaxy of stars from Flat and Jumps.
Here’s how Daqman’s top earners currently stand and what to expect with likely bets at the major meetings.
Daqman 50 Pricewise 24 (Daqman 409 points clear to 10 stakes)
Bull’s-eye naps (6-11) 269 points up to recommended stakes
Supernaps (16-21) 138 points up to 20 point stakes
TODAY AND TOMORROW: King George weekend at Ascot, featuring the King George itself and the International Stakes, both on Saturday, starts the 10-day-long feature-race session and sets the quality tone.
* Supernap today, with bull’s-eye bets and Pricewise challenge Saturday
SUNDAY: Big-race previews and betting plan for the Galway-Goodwood extravaganza.
MONDAY: Galway launches with a bumper mixed meeting of Flat handicaps, hurdles and an NH Flat race.
TUESDAY: Galway continues with another mixed bag, while the Goodwood Cup is the day’s feature in England, Stradivarius attempting a hat-trick but challenged again by Dee Ex Bee, who was only a length behind, in second, last year.
* Supernap, bull’s-eye bets and Pricewise challenge
WEDNESDAY: The Sussex Stakes at Goodwood in the afternoon makes a unique double with the Galway Plate the same evening.
* Supernap and Pricewise challenge
THURSDAY: Goodwood has the Nassau Stakes. Galway has Ladies’ Day.
* Supernap and Pricewise challenge
FRIDAY: The Golden Mile and King George sprint at Goodwood; the Guinness Handicap at Galway.
* Bull’s-eye bets and Pricewise challenge
SATURDAY: The Goodwood Stewards Cup and the Galway Shopping Centre (Grade B) Handicap Hurdle.
* Supernap, bull’s-eye bets and Pricewise challenge
SUNDAY: Galway closes with the Ahonoora Handicap.
MAX READY MADE FOR THE BROWN JACK
3.00 Ascot (Brown Jack Stakes) Themaxwecan was one of our Fortune Cookies in the Spring but, first glance at the form, he seems to have run with an attitude more like Theminwecan, with five consecutive defeats.
But two of them were behind Anthony Van Dyck in the Lingfield Derby Trial and Dashing Willoughby in the Queen’s Vase, and ‘Max’ only just failed to get up at Doncaster on the first day of June, giving 13lb to the winner, who has scored again since.
Now here he is, first time over 2m, getting just over a stone from the likely hot favourite, Crystal King, a Frankel who is also stepping up in trip and has to improve and stay a good deal better than his sire.
Crystal King beat Sleeping Lion less than two lengths at Wolverhampton in April when in receipt of 6lb. He’s giving 3lb today, so there’s a 9lb turnaround against him here, and a further drop of 12lb to Themaxwecan (4.3 early mouse on BETDAQ).
Despite his six starts this season, ‘Max’ is a hidden horse, unexposed at today’s trip and with past career challenges which he won’t get today, not only having had to tackle the Derby winner in his trial and the Queen’s Vase company at Royal Ascot but also running up to the Sandown Classic Trial second, who was subsequent winner of a Listed two grades higher than this race today.
I said that Crystal King had to improve, and he’s with the right trainer to do so in Sir Michael Stoute but, in fact, he and The Maxwecan have the same 93 rating so, at a difference of 15lb, he is giving a whole lot more than weight for age.
MOORE SWITCHES TO CHARM OFFENSIVE
3.35 Ascot (Valiant Stakes) The Classic generation is 6-4 up on the four-year-olds in this fillies’ and mares’ Listed. William Haggas has won it with both.
His 2017 winner, On Her Toes, had run well to be eighth in the big-field Sandringham Handicap at Royal Ascot. Today’s Haggas hopeful, Magnetic Charm, was beaten only a neck, second in the same race, after twice having to be switched, and giving a stone and a half to the winner (Main Edition in rear).
James Doyle sits the race out, Ryan Moore taking over on Magnetic Charm, with a couple of pounds in hand of his lowest riding weight. Doyle is too heavy, closer to the 8st 13lb required for The Maxwecan in the previous race.
Anna Nerium has won a Group 3 on firm, and John Gosden steps up low-level handicap winners, Duneflower and Jadeerah, who have that ‘could be anything’ look but, in theory, they will need to learn more if they are to win a Charm offensive.
TOM TO WIN SNAKES AND LADDER RACE
7.30 York A fascinating clash of Kirstenbosch, 2-2 for James Fanshaw at a low level, so three or four steps up the ladder to Listed today, versus Frankellina, who drops down three levels from her Oaks sixth.
Ignore her run in the Ribblesdale on soft, and this becomes a perfect opportunity, returning to York where she was unlucky (dwelt at the start) to be beaten a neck, dead-heating for second in the Musidora.
She will be ridden by the much underrated Tom Marquand, who seized the Young Stayers Handicap at Sandown on Just Hubert yesterday, after my selection, Summer Moon, broke down.
Though Kirstenbosch ‘could be anything’, it may also be the case that she’s making a price here for a bet on a Group filly who is clearly well placed to redeem herself.
Encapsulation has had two chances at this Listed level, one for Noel Meade – a solid second to Epsom Oaks runner-up and Curragh Oaks third Pink Dogwood and one for her new trainer, Andrew Balding – which puts her third best in here on the ratings but with the worry that she (and Pink Dogwood) have developed bridesmaid tendencies from the same line of form.
DAQMAN’S BETS
3.00 Ascot (win 30)
BET 10pts win THE MAXWECAN
3.35 Ascot (supernap)
BET 20pts win MAGNETIC CHARM
4.55 Uttoxeter (win 20)
BET 3pts win SILK RUN
5.45 Chepstow (win 20)
BET 2.5pts win FRECKLES
7.10 Newmarket (win 10)
BET 2.85pts win BABA GHANOUJ
7.30 York (win 30)
BET 12pts win FRANKELLINA
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