30-POINT SCOOP FROM PRESENTING PERCY BET: Daqman landed his seventh winning bet in three days when he insisted yesterday ‘Galmoy Presented To Percy,’ arguing that connections just had to run Presenting Percy in the Galmoy Hurdle at Gowran Park under the conditions of the race. Result: Percy WON 9-4 to a 12-point win-30 bet.
5.2 VALUE NAP ON BETDAQ AT MORNING OFFERS: Today Daqman backs Enable (no, not in a race; she’s already won four times for him). And he follows the market at Doncaster and Huntingdon but still manages a 5.2 value nap on BETDAQ.
ENABLE ROBBED OF RACING OSCAR
Perhaps there should be an equine Me-Too. The ‘girls’ have certainly been misused and had to suffer blatant inequality in racing’s World Rankings.
The Top Races Worldwide had two from Europe listed highest of the hot six: the Arc de Triomphe and the King George, well clear of the Breeders Cup and Dubai World Cup and two leading Australian events.
So the ‘Oscar’ was a certainty then for the ‘horse’ that won BOTH King George AND Arc? Not so.
The filly Enable who won six consecutive races, four Oaks as well as King George and Arc, was not champion in ANY World’s Best Racehorse rankings.
Overall champion was, for the second year running – so emulating Frankel – the American colt Arrogate, and champion three year old, which Arrogate won last year, went to Cracksman.
The Racing Post’s verdict is contradictory. Cracksman ‘clearly’ deserves to be recognised as the leading performer in Europe last year ahead of his stablemate Enable, ‘although’ the ratings suggest there would be ‘very little between the pair were they to meet.’
The official figures have 2lb between them which is Enable’s sex allowance, which would ‘swing the vote in her favour.’
In fact, ‘it can be argued that the Arc had more strength in depth,’ but Cracksman ‘looked exceptional’ on British Champions Day.
So. Substitute one ‘exceptional’ result for a King George and Arc double, though they are the world’s top races, and drop the winner of those two a couple of pounds behind because of her sex allowance.
Even Catherine Deneuve would accept this groping for excuses is hardly playing the game, such ‘evidence’ being compiled by the same ‘experts’ who trumpeted Frankel to the top of the tree, a colt who never even ran in Derby or King George.
Frankel spent most of his career beating the same two horses, Excelebration and Farrh. They were scared to race him beyond 1m 2f, so making him a mere quarterhorse compared with such as Cracksman and Enable.
Would that either, or both, could have the chance of a test of the generations against him over the championship distance of 1m 4f.
How on earth do you create the world’s best races at a mile and a half, King George and Arc, honour them as such, and then keep on demoting them in your assessments? Reckon it’s all a bit crazy? Me, too.
Yes, I know the Oscar is for the leading male actor on the world stage. But you see racing doesn’t even have an award for fillies and mares. Reckon that’s also crazy? Me, too.
And, to be fair to the Racing Post, they explain and complain: ‘Winx and Enable dominated the turf last year but they don’t dominate the World’s Best Racehorse Rankings.
‘The flaw in the current rankings is that the on-track success of fillies and mares is not reflected in the rankings because of a weight allowance they receive when they run against the males.’
If the allowance was removed by raising the ratings of fillies and mares by the same amount at the end of each season, the adjustment would have Winx top, Arrogate second, then Enable as champion of Europe.
RIGHT TIME FOR AMBER GAMBLE
3.05 Doncaster Ian Williams has been going great guns and seems to have Amber Gambler – four times a winner at this time last year – back to form: 5.2 on BETDAQ. Green light.
3.40 Doncaster They’ve dived in for Lord County on his handicap debut, from 10-1 overnight to 9-2 this morning but, as ever, value on BETDAQ at 7.8.
Peppay Le Pugh is a long-standing maiden (0-16) so the alternative has to be Does It In Style (4.3), who did well in first-time cheekpieces on the last day. In fact, there’s such value on BETDAQ, we can back both.
3.50 Huntingdon That vicious wielder of weight, the handicapper, has punished Cloth Cap with an 11lb penalty for winning here in December.
I shall take Cloth Cap on with the two market movers this morning, Natter Jack Croak (oh, please!) and First Assignment, both 7.4 on BETDAQ, both with their futures before them, as they say.
DAQMAN’S BETS (each staked to win 20)
BET 4.75pts win (nap) AMBER GAMBLER (3.05 Doncaster)
BET 6pts win DOES IT IN STYLE and 3pts win LORD COUNTY (3.40 Doncaster)
BET 3pts win on each FIRST ASSIGNMENT and NATTER JACK CROAK (3.50 Huntingdon)
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