THREE NAPS OUT OF FOUR AND 97 POINTS PROFIT Daqman was all smiles after Frown (WON 4-1) gave him his third nap in four days yesterday, when he landed his ninth return of the week – six of them winners – for an overall profit of 97 points. The latest run comes after he made 418 points last week from the first four days of Royal Ascot.
Thursday (profit 38.25 points)
WON 4-1 FROWN (nap)
WON 2-1 DAFR
WIN (3RD 9-1) SEA FOX (16.0 on BETDAQ)
WIN (3RD 7-1) CONSTANTINO (9.4 on BETDAQ)
Wednesday (loss 7.50 points)
WON 3-1 POWER OF DARKNESS
Tuesday (profit 34.20 points)
WON 1-1 MORE THAN LIKELY (supernap)
WIN (place lay) MOGESTIC unplaced 9-4
Monday (profit 32.20 points)
WON 11-2 CUBSWIN
WON 7-4 COSMIC LOVE (nap)
LET BATTLE RESUME WITH DAQMAN LEADING 39-15
Tonight’s Curragh card opens the three-day Irish Derby meeting but it’s evening racing on terrestrial telly that has Pricewise coming out to play. The Racing Post man is challenged by Daqman to find the value in the Gosforth Park Cup at Newcastle (7.30). The winning scores between them are 39-15 in Daqman’s favour. Single-unit level stakes show a gap between them of 121 points (Daqman +58, Pricewise -63).
GIFT HORSE OUT ON TOWN MOOR
4.00 Doncaster My man in the long grass tells me to get on Arabian Gift, an aptly named Godolphin. He says the horse is Group class and has been working well with top guns in the yard. I could win eight for every 10 invested this morning.
5.25 The Curragh Happily won three of her next four starts after landing this juvenile-fillies’ test for Aidan O’Brien. This time around, he would happily take any one of Goddess (9.6 on BETDAQ this morning), Hermosa (6.2 offers) or Peach Tree, though Dermot Weld has other ideas.
Goddess is a Camelot, who supplied the Chesham Stakes winner (Arthur Kitt) at Royal Ascot. She is related to an Irish Oaks winner and her dam’s line goes back to Sea The Stars. The Galileo filly Hermosa is sister to Hydrangea.
Lightning Amber (Weld) and Peach Tree were third and fifth in a Cork maiden 12 days ago, and improvement is expected, but they will need a real edge from that experience to cope with the potential class of Hermosa and Goddess.
MAY LUCCA BE WITH YOU, DANNY
7.10 The Curragh (Apprentice Derby) Danny Sheehy tries to follow up last year’s win when he takes over on Lucca, three out of five last summer under Ronan Whelan, a previous winner of today’s race.
Ronan was among six winners in the decade who were unable to claim in this Derby race. Danny Sheehy has just hung on to a 2lb benefit here. So, too, Dylan Hogan (Moktamel) but he has a low draw to beat.
Ideally, you need to be in 8, 9 or 10, from which 80% of winners come. That’s a big edge if it works out, one which won’t have been wasted on the professional eye of J P McManus, who runs Hurricane Sky from 9.
He’s a horse who thrives on his racing the older he gets and loves it firm (two wins and a second in late-June-July last season) so his having raced three times already this month – for one success at Leopardstown – won’t be a worry.
Three-year-olds have won six times in the decade but Dawn Hoofer (in 8) still has to prove she stays this far, whereas Schoolboy Error (stall 10) is in fine form and enjoys the trip.
But the youngster to be on, surely, is Remmy D (stall 12), a CD winner at the Curragh, dropped in class after his fifth in the Ulster Derby: 7.6 offers on BETDAQ. Lucca was 10.5 at the time.
KNIGHT’S NIGHT AT NEWCASTLE
7.30 Newcastle (Gosforth Park Cup) Richard Fahey runs so many so often, he’s lost track. He claims Eastern Impact ‘has never run on AW’, but in fact was third at Wolverhampton in March, 2017. His best form is at 6f (that also applies to Naggers).
Atletico has AW figures of 112222 but is 13lb higher than his winning mark here at Newcastle in November.
Orvar beat him at today’s weight difference at Wolverhampton in February but Atletico didn’t get a clear run until too late.
Copper Knight has been dropped 8lb since third at this time last year to Battash at level weights in a stakes race. Back to form on the last day.
Dakota Gold progressed 18lb last season but his three defeats this term have led to today’s application of a hood, and he was fractious in the stalls at York.
He was only narrowly beaten before that, third, at Thirsk but the fourth horse, Orvar, is now breathing down his neck, a pound better off.
Dakota Gold has no AW experience. His Michael Dods stablemate Holmeswood has also been out of sorts but was a winner on this Tapeta surface as a juvenile and has always needed plenty of racing before he strikes form. If you back one, you have to back the other.
Barrington came back to form a fortnight ago, 10lb lower than at this time last year, but the one he beat that day is a class-4 animal. He has to improve again.
BETDAQ VALUE VERDICT: Atletico, Dakota Gold and Orvar are now within a length of each other and, looking for something not ‘all of a heap’ with them, I find 9.8 offer Copper Knight has a big pull on Holmeswood and Evergate on past form, and ran well in the Scottish Sprint Cup at Musselburgh three weeks ago.
DAQMAN BETS
4.00 Doncaster (to win 16 and cover all other bets)
BET 20pts win (supernap) ARABIAN GIFT
5.25 The Curragh (win 10)
BET 2pts win HERMOSA
BET 1.25pts win GODDESS
7.10 The Curragh (win 20)
BET 3pts win REMMY D
BET 2pts win and place LUCCA
7.30 Newcastle (win 30)
BET 3.5pts win COPPER KNIGHT
DAQ MULTIPLES
BET 2.75pts win double ARABIAN GIFT (4.00 Doncaster) and SMART CALL (8.05 Newcastle)
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