HAT-TRICK HIKES DAQMAN PROFITS TO 93 POINTS: After a naps treble (Monday-Wednesday), Daqman yesterday took his week’s profit to 93.42 points with three winners in a row out of four bets all day, featuring sensational value on BETDAQ, as identified in yesterday’s column.
WON 11-2 LUCHADOR (8.6 taken on BETDAQ)
WON 9-2 JOHNI BOXIT (8.4 taken on BETDAQ)
WON 13-8 ALMURR for three winners in a row
ECLIPSE: HOW THE BIG THREE RATINGS COMPARE: Tomorrow is D-Day in the clash of Masar, Roaring Lion and Saxon Warrior over 1m 2f. It’s the Coral Eclipse, which Daqman has previewed all week. Now the Racing Post has published its ratings. How do they compare with Daqman’s and with the official ratings?
DAQMAN DOWNS WARRIOR
120 MASAR+ but 123 with the Racing Post and 121 on official ratings
119 ALPHA CENTAURI+ 122 with the Racing Post and 122 on official ratings
118 WITHOUT PAROLE+ 121 with the. Racing Post and 119 on official ratings
117 LATROBE+ 117 with the Racing Post and 115 on official ratings
117 ROARING LION 119 with the Racing Post and 118 on official ratings
116 GUSTAV KLIMT 120 with the Racing Post and 118 on official ratings
116 ROMANISED 121 with the Racing Post and 118 on official ratings
115 ROSTROPOVICH 116 with the Racing Post and 108 on official ratings
115 SAXON WARRIOR 123 with the Racing Post and 121 on official ratings
114 DEE EX BEE 120 with the R acing Post and 118 on official ratings
BARBILL LOOKS BIG AT BETDAQ 9.0
1.50 Sandown Royal Ascot losers have been regular winners in the last week and the last three colts successful in this race had been seen in the Norfolk Stakes there.
Well Done Fox, Chapelli, Life Of Riley and Jungle inthebungle all ran in the Windsor Castle Stakes, Country Rose in the Queen Mary and Barbill in the Coventry, which is usually the strongest.
Van Beethoven has already boosted the Windsor Castle by winning a Group 2 and So Perfect the Queen Mary by winning a Group 3.
Just one colt in front of Barbill in the Coventry has run since and won a small race but the Coventry winner, Calyx, is regarded as something very special.
The stats say that fillies don’t win this and t the low draw can be vital, even with small fields, in sprints at Sandown: five of the last seven winners of today’s contest came out of stalls 1 and 2.
Richard Hannon (Well Done Fox) finally got a winner at Newbury last night but is striking at a modest 14%.
So I shall divide my. Stakes bet ween the Mick Channon pair, Jungle inthebungle and Barbill, in stalls 3 and 5 at 6.2 and 9.0 on BETDAQ
MUSTASHRY TO WIN BY A WHISKER
3.30 Sandown Andrew Balding is in better form now than at Royal Ascot but he reaches for cheekpieces to help Morando, whose best work has been on soft-heavy ground.
Today’s surface suits Sir Michael Stoute’s Mustashry, who hasn’t been seen since September and drops back from Group level for this. He’s never won after a break but Sir Michael Stoute is currently 4-7.
On a line through Frest Ranger, there’s almost a stone between Mustashry and Euginio, and again the current curse of Hannon may not help that one.
Euginio improved to be runner-up in the Wolferton at Royal Ascot in first-time blinkers but will they have the same effect again?
When a stable is in form, blinkers serve to sharpen up the horse. When it’s out of form, it can be desperation, a supercharger in a one-off situation.
Spark Plug won this race last season and was second the year before and has gradually slipped down the ratings because nothing else to boast about.
He is now weighted for revenge on First Sitting, who is conceding weight all round but I’ll risk Mustashry, backed in to 3.4 and challenging Euginio for the favourite’s spot as I write.
I’M SAVING UP TO BACK CUMANI
3.45 and 4.20 Doncaster The Racing Post paper favourite for the 3.45 was 6-5 on Asoof but the actual market profoundly disagrees, with Asoof out to 3.0 in the BETDAQ orange, as Saving Grace challenges at 3.6.
What did Asood beat in his only success to date? He was allowed to make all over Fabulous Red, who was unable to shine on fast ground.
Saving Grace’s Luca Cumani stable is 3-3 in this contest and this is his handicap debut (Cumani 22% for such debutants and 24% at Doncaster).
Like Cumani, Roger Charlton runs just the one at Doncaster: Polish (4.20), who should turn over Bombyx, not so far a lover of fast ground.
PIVOINE SHOULD POUNCE AGAIN
4.05 Sandown Never many runners but the low draw is still paramount. Eight of the last nine winners came from the low five stalls. Which one houses the winner?
Once again I can’t have the Hannon (Bathsheba Bay) with his strike rate suggesting that odds are at least 7-1 against everything he runs.
Note that he again reaches for the aids: this time, a tongue tie. In fact, the Bay’s form suggests he needs rain.
Three-year-olds have won five of the last eight in this but, with 0-20, Ed Dunlop (Alternative Fact) is in even worse shape that Hannon.
Not So Sleepy, festooned with headgear, is not so lively; he’s won once in 20 starts and trainer Hughie Morrison is also currently in the doldrums.,
The horse that 4.3 offer Pivoine beat six lengths over today’s CD three weeks back has won since, which suggests that the handicapper was right to smack a 10lb penalty on him.
Alfarris also beat a subsequent winner on the last day, though the favourite in the race was hampered in his run. He is 211 over the trip now and must be the main danger, though I see they’ve come for Melting Dew this morning.
THE SECRETS OUT IN FRONT..
4.40 Sandown Dark Pearl should have won over today’s Sandown CD three weeks ago, dropped in class, but trainer Ed Walker admits that he didn’t like the ground.
The step up to 1m 6f for today’s 4.4 BETDAQ offer Saroog brought the first bouquet for this bridesmaid, and the runner-up has won four lengths since.
The trip may be of similar benefit to Zeelander, another who’s found it hard to get his head in front at 1m 4f and was turned over when odds on for a York handicap.
But the three topweights are all giving more than a stone to the The Secrets Out, who won seven lengths on the July Course after the runner-up scored six lengths at Lingfield. May be hard to catch round the Sandown bends from stall three, despite offers of 14.0.
DAQMAN’S BETS
1.50 Sandown (win 20)
BET 4pts win JUNGLE INTHEBUNGLE
BET 2.5pts win BARBILL
3.30 Sandown (win 20)
BET 8.25pts win MUSTASHRY
3.45 Doncaster (win 20)
BET 7.5pts win (nap) SAVING GRACE
4.05 Sandown (win 20)
BET 6pts win PIVOINE
4.20 Doncaster (win 10)
BET 5.25pts win POLISH
4.40 Sandown (win 30)
BET 2.3pts win and place THE SECRET’S OUT
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