IT’S FIVE NAPS UP OUT OF EIGHT: Daqman landed his fifth winning nap from the last eight through Polarisation (WON 4-5) at Hamilton yesterday. Today’s best bet runs at Newmarket tonight.
BULL’S-EYE STEWARDS’ CUP BET: Daqman finds a 23.0 offer going begging back at the two-day Hamilton festival in their Stewards’ Cup tonight, and tries a Bull’s-Eye (win 50) Bet.
PLAGIARISM TO BOOST LOWTHER STAKES PLAN
2.00 Newbury The winner of this wins again – though not at high level – and there will be winners behind him. It’s a good recommendation to watch the market and watch the race.
The eyes of the breeding world will be on two first foals: the Lawman grey Four On Eight (out of a Pivotal mare) and the Galileo colt Recorder (out of Group winner Memory) who was headed only narrowly in the BETDAQ market, early mouse, by Zebadiah.
3.05 Newbury The sixth horse home has won a modest maiden; otherwise those behind Bella Nouf in a slow time at Goodwood so far don’t amount to much, and she had a hard race that day. So I won’t be taking the short offers, though the rest are much of a muchness.
3.40 Newbury (Rose Bowl) Sandy Lane and Commonwealth Cup runner-up Limato won this for Henry Candy last year, but Richard Hannon has had it in the bag four times in the decade, and Torment should go well dropped back to the minimum of his debut win.
But Madrinho was the unfancied second-string when he beat the hot-pot of a Hannon pair at Ascot a week ago
Torment is entered up in half a dozen Sales races but the ones with the fancy entries are Plagiarism (Lowther Stakes) and Windsor Castle seventh Opal Tiara (Lowther and Moyglare). Tasleet will be short, if William Haggas has already won with Bella Nouf.
4.45 Newbury The last two winners of this had dropped from class 2, just like five of those taking part this afternoon.
Lungarno Palace and Jakey, separated half a length when one-two at Epsom in the Spring, are down in class for the first time since.
Elkaayed is also down a grade after twice trying to make all at Chester, and Dutch Uncle after a decent effort at Epsom but a flop in the King George V Stakes at Royal Ascot. Black Shadow weakened badly at Windsor.
The only ones to have actually won a grade higher are Lingfield (turf) scorer Burano and Elkaayed, who has dropped 11lb since the Spring and could be worth a bit each way at 12.5 on BETDAQ this morning.
23.0 MUNFALLET ON A HAMILTON HAT-TRICK
6.50 Newmarket It’s a hard day’s racing but I think we can look on the bright side, here. Though he didn’t beat very much, Mister Brightside impressed at Lingfield in June.
I think Frankie Dettori can ‘do a Golden Horn’ here and just keep pressing the button in front and go through the gears against Musaaid.
7.40 Hamilton (Scottish Stewards Cup) Extremes of the draw win this, with stalls 11, 13, 14 and 15, matched on the other side by 1, 2 and 4 in the last seven seasons.
That’s a black mark each for paper-favourites Tiger Jim and Mass Rally, who seem stuck in the middle, as is Richard Fahey’s Supplicant.
But Fahey, who has won this four times since 2007, gets a stalls bonus for Arctic Feeling (in 1), Boy In The Bar (3) and Tatlisu (12), claimed off as the neck runner-up last year off a 9lb lower mark.
Munfallet didn’t like the cambers of Epsom but was progressive before that and goes for a Hamilton hat-trick here, 2-2 on the course. I’ll have a tickle at 23.0 in the BETDAQ orange this morning.
8.15 Hamilton (Glasgow Stakes) Festive Fare’s fourth to Golden Horn in the Feilden Stakes and Prince Gargarin’s third in the Gallinule to Ribblesdale winner, Curvy, and Derby fourth Giovanni Canaletto, both look good down at Listed level here.
The soft ground will suit Magic Dancer (9.8 BETDAQ offers as I write) and Prince Gargarin, the 4.2 favourite.
THE MAN WHO TIPPED 1,000 WINNERS..
My abiding memory of Kieran O’Connell, self-styled ‘man who tipped 1,000 winners’, was when he gave so many for my newspaper in Fleet Street that I flew to Dublin and bought him dinner in ‘the Jury’s’.
We had an aperitif (a pint of Guinness for Kieran) and then a slap-up do of four courses, with wine for each course (though a pint of Guinness every time for Kieran). I think you gave the place a Good Review that night, Kieran (you’ll know what I mean).
Ken ‘Window’ Payne – trainer extraordinary and punter even more so –would try to fool the bookies by running two horses at different meetings, flashing his cash in person at one venue, only for the other horse at the other track to win, with bets carefully placed by his ‘puteroners’.
Ken had a head lad called Ken who looked bafflingly like him, and one day I took an Australian client to his Yorkshire yard to buy a horse. For a moment, I couldn’t tell Ken from Ken. ‘I’m Ken,’ said the man, ‘Ken’s away. Ken’s saddling one himself.’ Yes, I said, but which meeting? ‘Ken didn’t say.’
DAQMAN’S BETS (1 to 9 for strength; excepting win-50 bull’s-eye bet)
BET 3pts win PLAGIARISM and 2pts win MADRINHO (3.40 Newbury)
BET 1pt win and place ELKAAYED (4.45 Newbury)
BET 8pts win (nap) MISTER BRIGHTSIDE (6.50 Newmarket)
BULL’S-EYE BET (to win 50 points): 2.2pts win and place MUNFALLET (7.40 Hamilton)
BET 5pts win PRINCE GARGARIN and 2pts win MAGIC DANCER (8.15 Hamilton)
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