DAQMAN HI-JACKS 9-2 WINNER: Daqman struck in his first bull’s-eye betting race of the Galway-Goodwood festivals when he took the BETDAQ 7.4 about Quick Jack (WON 9-2) for the Galway Hurdle yesterday. Jack was part of a pack of winners dealt by Daqman this week.
100 POINTS PROFIT IN TWO DAYS: He brought his total profit to 100 points in two days when he followed up Wednesday’s five returns (four winners, including an 8-1 shot) with three more winners:
WON 11-8 Shalaa (banker nap)
WON 9-2 Quick Jack
WON 3-1 Sizing Platinum
FIVE NAPS UP IN FOUR DAYS: Shalaa was his fifth winning nap in the festivals week, three at Galway, two at Goodwood, as follows:
WON 5-4 Bachasson (Galway nap, Monday)
WON 1-2 Long Dog (Galway banker, Tuesday)
WON 5-4 Time To Inspire (Galway nap, Wednesday)
WON 2-5 Solow (Goodwood banker, Wednesday)
WON 11-8 Shalaa (Goodwood banker, Thursday)
QUICK HIT TAKES DAQMAN CLEAR: Quick Jack gave Daqman a 2-1 lead over Pricewise in the week, and took the season’s scores to Daqman 68, Pricewise 11. They clash again today in the 2.35, 3.10 and 3.45 Goodwood, and in the 6.50 Galway.
MUNAASER TICKS ALL THE BOXES IN GOLDEN MILE
2.00 Goodwood (Glorious Stakes) Luca Cumani has form figures in this of 1300110 since 2007, and Connecticut looked a horse with a future when strolling home last time.
Sir Michael Stoute is on a hat-trick after two minor winners at Ffos Las yesterday but Hillstar has always been one of those horses for me: you can watch it win and shrug if that’s the way it goes.
I think the morning favourite The Corsican could also improve past him and would be my choice if it rained, but Connecticut has his big chance here if conditions remain the same: 4.2 in the BETDAQ orange.
2.35 Goodwood St James’s Palace Stakes second and fourth Latharnach and Aktabantay, and 2,000 Guineas eighth Moheet, have all had a rear view of Gleneagles this year.
Moheet had all sorts go wrong in the Guineas and his Derby venture was over a trip too far. He could get at least a place here at 10.5 on BETDAQ early mouse.
Convey (4.6 offers) is very highly regarded at home and has Group-1 entries after this. I can’t have Latharnach, with Charlie Appleby missing strike badly, with nine seconds and thirds from the last 17 starters, five of them favourites, three at odds on.
3.10 Goodwood (Golden Mile) Red Avenger won this last year, with Magic City, Belgian Bill, Fort Bastion, Bronze Angel and Two For Two all close behind, so all in with chances today.
But young horses aged three and four are 8/9, eight winners in the decade carrying below 9st., and eight drawn no higher than stall eight.
Munaaser ticks all three boxes and was back to form, beaten only half a length by Basem at Sandown recently.
Munaaser was ‘never going’ behind Gm Hopkins in the Royal Hunt Cup earlier, but had been runner-up to that one, giving him weight, in the Silver Cambridgeshire last autumn. He gets 9lb today.
His Sandown conqueror, Basem, is capable of further improvement and I shall have a bit of So Beloved at 19.5 on BETDAQ this morning as my outsider.
The lay for a place (at 3.65 in the green this morning) is top-weight Gm Hopkins, with his dismal draw in 18 and preference for a straight track.
GLORY DAY IN THE GREAT KING GEORGE SPRINT
3.45 Goodwood (King George Stakes) Though this usually goes to those lower-level Group winners unable to cope at the very top, Move In Time won Europe’s sprint championship, the Group-1 Prix de l’Abbaye.
However, Danny Tudhope, who won on him in Paris, seems to prefer his David O’Meara stablemate Out Do, though he’s won only handicaps and a Listed.
Cotai Glory has met them both: four lengths off Move In Time in the Abbaye, when only two years old, and beaten in a three-way photo by Out Do at York earlier this month.
Cotai Glory led at critical stages of those races and was clear in the Flying Childers at Doncaster last September (Group 2) when he jinked and unseated rider.
Still only three, so getting an allowance from the older horses, he’s the improver with a future and the drying ground at Goodwood is in his favour.
Out Do is well exposed with five races this year (and Ladbrokes were giving him away at 8-1 this morning) but Cotai Glory was having his first run of the campaign when a neck and a head behind him at York.
Muthmir was only half a length down in the Kings Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot (last year’s King George winner, Take Cover, behind), and must go close, dropped down from Group 1 and back to 5f, though his penalty has been successfully carried only once in the decade.
Moviesta won a moderate renewal of this in 2013 and was half-a-length third to Take Cover last year. Donncha, Lincoln and You’re Fired are entitled to improve but are currently high enough in the weights for class-3 success.
PLATE WON: NOW IT’S NEVER COMPLAIN’S TURN
5.45 Galway This is a lowish-level auction maiden and Palmetto Dunes deserves to be favourite, down in grade from his very-green run on the last day at Leopardstown.
But David Wachman goes for a hat-trick in the race with Ocean Tides, who could be his third Galway winner this week. The eye-catching son of Canford Cliffs represents a trade prospect likely to be shorter than his 14.0 offers this morning.
I’ll content myself with win and place at 14.0, with an even-money saver the Weld hot-pot.
6.15 Galway Blazers Chase Only one winner has carried more than 11st 2lb in the decade, seven of them set 10st 5lb or less.
The last five successful lightweights had all won in one of their last two starts, which points up Aranhill Chief, Never Complain, Protaras and Down Under.
Never Complain, really impressive at Tipperary in the Spring, was given a good Galway warmer when runner-up to a stablemate at Down Royal, and Henry De Bromhead has had three festival winners this week.
One of them was in the Galway Plate. Henry had to choose for that from Shanahan’s Turn (the winner) and Never Complain, who is switched here instead. He’s napped at the generous 9.4 BETDAQ offers
IT’S WELD’S SHOW COURT IF THE SHOWERS HIT
6.50 Galway (Guinness Handicap) Five-year-olds are going for a six-timer in this today, the last one being Artful Artist who tries for back-to-back wins, but with trainer Tony Martin out of form (1-25 in the last two weeks) until Quick Jack rescued the yard big time yesterday.
Martin gave Artful Artist a spin over hurdles at Killarney two weeks back and that should have set him up for today, though he’s 6lb higher than last year and faces a turn-around of more than a stone with the runner-up Show Court, 7.4 in the BETDAQ orange, early mouse.
If the forecast showers have come for Show Court, he will be very hard to beat, representing as he does the Dermot Weld star stable at this Ballybrit meeting, albeit still stuck on only three winners this week, way short of the usual score.
Apterix has won only an amateurs’ race since his maiden, and the next five home in that amateurs’ event have all failed since. Similarly, the second and third when he broke his maiden at Thirsk are still maidens.
He should shorten up as the Pricewise lemmings move in, and I expect to lay him for a place at around 3.5 (he’s 4.4 in the green as I write).
Ascot Stakes winner Clondaw Warrior (6.0 offers) drops back more than a mile here but showed a terrific burst of speed to win on this course over 1m 4f last backend, albeit off a 22lb lower mark.
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked to win 30 points, except the lays and the bull’s-eye bet)
BET 9pts win CONNECTICUT (2.00 Goodwood)
TRIPLE WHAMMY: LAY 10pts win LATHARNACH, and BET 8.3pts win CONVOY and 3pts win and place MOHEET (2.35 Goodwood)
TRIPLE WHAMMY: LAY 5pts for a place Gm HOPKINS and BET 5.5pts win BASEM, 3.75pts win MUNAASER, and 1.6pts win and place SO BELOVED (3.10 Goodwood)
BET 6pts win (Goodwood nap) COATI GLORY (3.45 Goodwood)
BET 2.3pts win and place OCEAN TIDES, with 4.6pts win (stakes saver) PALMETTO DUNES (5.45 Galway)
BULL’S-EYE BET (win 50): 6pts win (Galway nap) NEVER COMPLAIN (6.15 Galway)
DOUBLE WHAMMY: LAY 5pts for a place APTERIX, and BET 6pts win CLONDAW WARRIOR and 4.6pts win SHOW COURT (6.50 Galway)
* Note: Double Whammys try to get both a win and lay up; Triple Whammys go for win, place and lay.
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