12-1 STRIKE! SO NOW IT’S FIVE WINNING DAYS FOR DAQMAN: Knock, knock! Who’s there? Daqman, of course, with FIVE winning days in a row and his biggest winner of the week so far, Royal Dornoch (WON 12-1), who swooped late on the rails yesterday to pip Shamrock’s 9-4 nap at Leopardstown. It’s the old one-two from BETDAQ TIPS daily pickers; the forecast paid 37.65 with Ladbrokes and Corals. This could start a trend!
YESTERDAY: Profit on the day: 8.25 points
✔️ WON 12-1 ROYAL DORNOCH
WEDNESDAY: Profit on the day: 18.30 points
✔️ WON 100-30 BILLIAN
✔️ WON evens TASAAMUH (nap)
TUESDAY: Profit on the day: 8.20 points
✔️ WON 13-2 ROYAL DYNASTY (w/p 10.0 on BETDAQ)
MONDAY: Profit on the day: 13.25 points
✔️ WON 5-2 MYSTERY SMILES (nap)
SUNDAY: Profit on the day: 9.70 points
✔️ WON 7-1 REGAL REALITY (win 50 at BETDAQ 10.0)
VALUE AT THE CURRAGH TODAY AND IN SATURDAY CLASH: Daqman concentrates on Ireland again today. After his 12-1 winner at Leopardstown, he wants an 11.5 shot to score at the Curragh. Look out tomorrow for the value clash between Daqman and Pricewise, with Daqman leading 27-12.
KAMEKO INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE
Eclipse eclipsed? Connections of Enable’s Coral-Eclipse conqueror, Ghaiyyath, woke to a surprise challenge this morning which could make the York International next Wednesday race of the year.
The Ian Balding camp of the 2,000 Guineas winner, Kameko, have thrown down the gauntlet to Ghaiyyath for the 1m 2f race.
Kameko has been beaten in the Derby (1m 4f) and the Sussex Stakes (1m) and now swerves Sunday’s Prix Jacques Le Marois match with Circus Maximus at Deauville to try to establish himself as the 10-furlong king.
If they don’t frighten everything away from the International, Lord North could be among the opposition, but he prefers a fair-sized field.
Kameko’s proposed defection from the Deauville big race is good news for Jessica Harrington, who could run Alpine Star against Circus Maximus.
The Maximus stable of Aidan O’Brien today switches Armory from the International to the Curragh this afternoon, where he rates the nap in the Royal Whip.
MONUMENTAL CHANCE FOR O’BRIEN
⭕ 2.30 The Curragh (Irish St Leger Trial) Aidan O’Brien has won this six times in a row, including a hat-trick with Order Of St George (2015-17), who went on to finish first, second and first again in the Curragh St Leger itself and ultimately become British Long-Distance Champion at Ascot.
Should Delphi win or go close today, his target is said to be the Doncaster St Leger; we’ll see.
Order Of St George won today’s trial off ratings of 112, 124 then 120, and O’Brien’s other three-year-old winner of the race, Flag Of Honour (2018), went to post off 109. Delphi can bring only 104 to the table today and it’s his first try at the trip.
He has to face last year’s Irish St Leger winner, Search For A Song (rated 115), who stayed on well in the Tattersalls Gold Cup here the last day, though that was the filly’s second successive defeat in a hood.
Master Of Reality (113), fifth in this trial last year, was also third in the Ascot Gold Cup and fourth in the Melbourne Cup. Won immediately after being gelded 15 months ago.
Willie Mullins is striking at 32% and Micro Manage (rated 107), who romped away here last June, could be anything but has had so little racing, it’s hard to bet on potential.
The one that catches my eye is another O’Brien three-year-old, Monument Valley, second in Serpentine’s maiden here and not off the mark until stepped up to something closer to today’s distance the last day.
Half-brother to £2m-in-prizemoney winner Main Sequence, Monument Valley runs here instead of in the Great Voltigeur at York next week, clearly thought to need the longer trip today.
Since both are trained O’Brien, and Monument Valley (BETDAQ 11.5) is officially 12lb his inferior, I am obliged to back the stable and include Delphi (at 3.3) in the equation.
JOUSKA JUST WHAT HENRY ORDERED
⭕ 2.50 Pontefract Six winners in the decade have come out of stalls 1, 2, 3, where I find Henry Candy’s Jouska (in the one stall), third in the Cornwallis last autumn, and apple of Henry’s eye.
Henry has had only six winners the whole year, and there must be a ‘hidden horse’ or two at Kingston Warren, for the remainder of this season or next!
Mr Patience and Mr Laid Back are just two epithets applied to the 76-year-old, who in the Eighties, trained Time Charter, the Enable of her day as winner of the Epsom Oaks, Champion Stakes and King George.
Exceptional (stall 2) shot up 12lb without winning in the early part of the summer, but the firm ground is a worry.
Shades Of Blue (BETDAQ 4.00) was runner-up in this race last year, and drops from Group company but Jouska looks big at 11.0.
ARMORY PUTS THEM TO THE SWORD
⭕ 3.00 The Curragh (Royal Whip) Aidan O’Brien has won this in recent years with two from the very top of the tree.
Fame And Glory (2010) went on to win the Ascot Gold Cup and the British Long-Distance Championship, while Found (2025) won an Arc!
Armory, seemingly heading for glory after a juvenile hat-trick which included the Futurity, came up short against Pinatubo in the National Stakes.
But he has stuck with it in Group 1 until now, and his Irish Guineas fourth to Siskin and then, at today’s trip, fourth to Magical in the Tattersalls Gold Cup, look good enough here.
Sinawann, sixth in the Guineas, couldn’t be that far behind Armory. Wrong, says the handicapper, his rating is 8lb inferior and he takes a penalty into the race, giving him a total of 11lb to make up.
Numerian was well behind Leo De Fury in the Mooresbridge but, if Leo was unlucky, as they say, in the Tattersalls Gold Cup, I didn’t see it, and he’s worse off here, giving 13lb to Armory, who rates the nap at BETDAQ 3.0 as I write.
DAQMAN’S BETS
2.30 The Curragh (win 20, win 10)
BET 2pts win MONUMENT VALLEY
BET 4.25pts win DELPHI
2.50 Pontefract (win 20, win 10)
BET 2pts win JOUSKA
BET 3.25pts win SHADES OF BLUE
3.00 The Curragh (nap to win 20)
BET 10pts win ARMORY
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