25 UP! DOUBLE HIT AT PRICEWISE: Daqman completed the double over Pricewise, with two big-race winners out of two yesterday, Collaboration (WON 9-4) in the opener and Hans Holbein (WON 7-4) in the Vase at Chester, to take his lead to 25-5 in the current Flat season.
THAT TAKES DAQMAN TO 166: Daqman wants to go 100 wins clear of his trade-paper rival by Royal Ascot, but Pricewise tips in just one race today, 2.10 Chester. In the fourth season of the challenge, the score is 166-78. That’s 244 winning feature-race bets by covering both.
MAXIMUM STAKES TWICE TODAY: There’s a Daqman double banker bid at Chester this afternoon in the prestigious Ormonde Stakes and another Classic test, the Dee Stakes.
SMUGGLER’S TO LAND MORE BALLYDOYLE BOOTY
2.10 Chester (Earl Grosvenor Handicap) The low draw – stalls 2 to 6 – have won 11 of the 14 races over all distances at Chester this week so far.
In this race, every single winner was aged four or five in the decade, and seven out of 10 were from stalls 1 to 7.
Three horses get a massive lift from these stats – first-time-blinkered Brazos, plus Newstead Abbey and Colour Blue – but the Brazos stable hasn’t had a winner in 2015, and some of its runners have started 25-1, 33-1 and 80-1 in May, as if known to have no chance.
Newstead Abbey was second at Chester in September but is 10lb higher than his last winning mark, and it’s hard to see him winning.
Colour Blue won only a three-runner race on the last day but was not disgraced in the Irish Lincoln. She has a very good attitude and has been in the frame 11 times from 19 starts.
With five non-runners this morning but an open race (6.6 the field in the BETDAQ orange), the 9.2 Colour Blue stands out.
Of the two at the front of the market, three-times-Chester-winner Marcret, who loves it soft, is preferred to One Word More, whose best win came after an absence. Sure enough, he did his stuff at Thirsk first run back but that’s cost him a 7lb rise.
2.40 Chester (Dee Stakes) Aidan O’Brien, who has won both Cheshire Oaks and Chester Vase this week, tries for a Classic trial clean sweep by taking the Dee Stakes.
Ballydoyle is on a four-timer in the race after a hat-trick which included the subsequent Irish 2,000 Guineas winner Magician in 2013 and the Irish Derby runner-up Kingfisher last year.
Disegno (first-time visor), Prince Gargarin (has won on soft) and Not So Sleepy (first run after being gelded) could yet be ‘anything’, as they say, but don’t bring smart two-year-old form to the table to compare with Smuggler’s Cove’s.
The Ballydoyle colt, third in the Dewhurst, also has the benefit of a run back, and follows on stable pathfinders Diamondsandrubies and Hans Holbein at Chester this week.
TAC TICKS BOXES FOR CLASS IN THE ORMONDE
3.10 Chester (Ormonde Stakes) This race has recently been won by some top animals in Harbinger, St Nicholas Abbey and Brown Panther.
Tac De Boistron won a Listed Cup race over the Chester CD on soft in September, 2013, and launched last year with victory in the Sagaro Stakes (under a penalty) at Ascot in April.
The ground wasn’t easy enough there last month so he’s switched to the Ormonde this time around but must again give weight from a Group-1 (Prix Royal-Oak) penalty.
Big Orange won a £10,000 BETDAQ Listed handicap over today’s CD last summer when he beat the Doncaster Cup runner-up and the Cesarewitch second, but it’s disappointing that trainer Michael Bell is winning only with his maidens so far on turf this year.
St Leger fourth Windshear (visored first time) was only fourth in the John Porter but has form figures on the soft side of good of 111, unbeaten in three starts.
Windshear’s having had a run, getting his ground and 7lb from the favourite, plus the first-time visors, could add up to a first Group success but he’s a very hard horse to put your money on, with just a class-2 victory outside of handicaps.
Only Tac De Boistron can come close to the names of tough genuine stayers of class that win this.
CHARLTON TIPS ONE FOR MAJOR HANDICAPS
6.40 Ascot With Lady Cecil (Distain) out of form and Sir Michael Stoute (Entity) saddling a hooded beast that’s not entered up, the way seems clear for John Gosden, who has a decent pair running.
They are the Sea The Stars filly French Dressing and Nafla, the stable’s second string on jockey bookings, but a surprise favourite in the race this morning.
7.10 Ascot Major Jack, from the family of Al Kazeem, is tempting at 7.4 on BETDAQ early mouse for a trainer in form Roger Charlton who expects this four-year-old to go on to better things.
DAQMAN’S BETS (each staked to win 20 points)
BET 3.5pts win MARCRET, 2.4pts win COLOUR BLUE (2.10 Chester)
BANKER: BET 20pts win SMUGGLER’S COVE (2.40 Chester)
BANKER: BET 20pts win (nap) TAC DE BOISTRON (3.10 Chester)
BET 10pts win NAFLA and 2pts win (stakes saver) FRENCH DRESSING (6.40 Ascot)
BET 3pts win MAJOR JACK (7.10 Ascot)
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