15-2 DAY-ONE DAQMAN WINNER: Daqman made 14.25 points profit on the opening day of Doncaster with a one-two in the £300,000 Sales race, giving him nine winners in six days, including four naps.
WON 15-2 HALLASON (Thursday; Camille Pissarro 2nd 11-4)
WON Evens DESERT FLOWER (Thursday)
WON 9-4 WHOOP WHOOP (Wednesday nap)
WON 8-13 KALAMUNDA (Tuesday nap)
WON 7-2 MARIS ANGEL BETDAQ 6.0 taken Monday
WON 6-4 INVESTMENT MANAGER BETDAQ 3.0 Monday
WON 1-2 OMBUDSMAN (Sunday supernap)
WON 11-2 EPIC POET (Saturday Fortune Cookie)
WON 1-1 KALPANA (Saturday nap) BETDAQ 2.92
DONCASTER DAY 2: THANKYOU, SIR! Daqman says thankyou to Sir Michael Stoute on his retirement for many winners over the years; hopefully another one to land the nap today.
DONCASTER CUP: SUPERIOR STABLE: The Doncaster Cup also has the flavour of old-timers: which elder statesman among the runners can beat the rest? His answer is down to another trainer extraordinary, Andrew Balding, who saddled his 2,000th winner in Britain in July.
COLTRANE CAN RETRIEVE CUP
⭕ 3.35 Doncaster Cup (2m 2f) Times were slow yesterday and it rained during the afternoon. The earlier races today will help you decide, but the going seems destined to be more than ‘easy’ again.
COLTRANE: ‘Good to soft’ was the going return when Coltrane twice won the Sagaro Stakes at Ascot and when he won the Doncaster Cup of 2022 from Trueshan.
Champion trainer in England numerically with 135, his handler Andrew Balding has had 16 winners in 14 days, four of the last five ridden by champion-elect Oisin Murphy.
Murphy flies to Woodbine after today’s card at Doncaster, and his last rides for Balding at this Leger meeting are Subsequent (1.50), Tropical Storm (3.00), Coltrane (3.35) and Kameko’s sister, Kingsclere (4.45), named after Balding’s base in Hampshire.
TRUESHAN:But on deeper ground, Coltrane was well beaten in the Cesarewitch of 2020 and by Trueshan in today’s race last year, though excuses were made and he was routine tested. ‘He’s in superb health today,’ quote unquote the trainer.
SWEET WILLIAM: Lazy-horse Sweet William was beaten just a length and half by Trueshan last year but beat him six lengths in receipt of 7lb at Sandown in the Spring, after finishing third behind Coltrane in the Sagaro.
GREGORY: Gregory looks one paced tackling a trip; his best form (the 2023 Queen’s Vase) was over shorter and on top of the ground.
POINT LONSDALE: They said ‘any going and any race including the Gold Cup’ would suit Point Lonsdale after his Ormonde win (‘good’ ground at Chester in May).
But he’s only ever won in the Spring since his 2yo days and the Doncaster Cup hasn’t been on Aidan O’Brien’s mantelshelf since 2008.
Betdaq Betting Exchange Coltrane 8.8
MALLARD: DON’T DUCK DANCE
⭕ 1.50 Doncaster (Mallard Handicap, 1m 6f+) Favourites have a poor record; so does anything over the age of five.
Subsequent has been progressive on firm and soft but didn’t make the frame in class 2 at Goodwood, and this is a stronger race.
Shadow Dance has been out of the first two only once in the last year; that was at Royal Ascot and Roger Varian acknowledges that the grey wasn’t right that day and rates highly for an autumn campaign.
Don’t let his 10st 2lb frighten you off; he was always doing enough to score at York, giving weight all round, including 18lb to a hot three-year-old.
East India Dock Road was eased down to beat the Ascot Stakes runner-up when they met at Goodwood and is the big danger.
BETDAQ value: 4.1 Shadow Dance
IT’S CHECKMATE FOR JONQUIL
⭕ 2.25 Doncaster (Flying Scotsman Stakes) Everyone who knows the man, and many who don’t but simply recognise his genius, will be ‘on’ Sir Michael Stoute’s runners from now until the end of this, his retirement, season and none will deny the emotional content of their choice.
Sir Michael trained a charity horse for me in the same year that I used to visit Desert Orchid’s stable after ‘buying up’ the horse for my newspaper column!
I put it that way because I would have been an even bigger laughing stock to say that I was paying for exclusive information from Dessie’s trainer, David Elsworth.
‘Elzy’ would invite me to watch the gallops but would only grudgingly tell me which horses we were watching, never mind anything about them.
Elsworth and Stoute were similar chess-players who had a rare something in common. They could ‘see’ early on which horses had a ‘future’ in the racing game, and what kind of future. The rest was patience and more patience.
You left their presence knowing that you had to be patient, too, knowing you could rely on them to make those chess moves in the right place and at the right time until that future happened.
BETDAQ value 2.28 Jonquil: Son of a Derby winner, Jonquil impressed under Ryan Moore in his maiden, after giving himself a lot to do from a bad start.
Sir Michael Stoute’s assistant, James Savage, told the Racing Post: ‘He’s got that steely inner mentality.’ I think he was talking about the horse but it could have been the trainer.
DAQMAN’S BETS
1.50 Doncaster (win 12)
BET 4pts win SHADOW DANCE
2.25 Doncaster (win 12 nap)
BET 5.25pts win JONQUIL
3.35 Doncaster (win 30)
BET 3.75pts win COLTRANE
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