DAQMAN TACKLES A DAY OF EIGHT CARDS: EIGHT meetings in England and Ireland is like a Bank Holiday today but finding winners is not that easy, particularly if you were beaten a short-head and a length at 11-2 and 12-1 with your ‘hidden horses’ in the same race at Chelmsford last night. Get over it, Daqman!
ROYAL ASCOT COUNTDOWN: Daqman starts by checking out some of Frankie Dettori’s Royal Ascot rides as a prelude to a bet in his commemorative race: 35 years at Goodwood!
GREAT DETTORI ASCOT SAGA
ROYAL ASCOT COUNTDOWN: The Frankie Dettori love match with Royal Ascot has been a highlight of his career but Newmarket in July by way of Ascot is one of the main summer routes on his grand-tour map.
Saga (John and Thady Gosden) is a big-odds target for Frankie in the Royal Hunt Cup on Wednesday week. Beaten only a head in the Britannia at the big meeting on firm ground last year.
Prosperous Voyage could give him a treasure trip in the Duke Of Cambridge Stakes the same day. Won the Princess Elizabeth Stakes at the Epsom Derby meeting.
Inspiral (Queen Anne Stakes) launches Dettori’s farewell royal meeting on Tuesday, while Soul Sister can take another fillies’ stakes, the Ribblesdale on Thursday.
But his fervent wish is to partner Kinross to victory in the July Cup at Newmarket and land the only Group 1 that has eluded him.
It was at Ascot that Kinross completed a four-timer for Frankie in the British Champions Sprint in October after three 7f strikes at York, Doncaster and Longchamp.
Now Dettori will ride Kinross in the Jubilee Stakes at the royal meeting, though only 8th in the same race last year, but with the July Cup in mind for a clean sweep of the Group-1 board.
⭕ 6.25 Goodwood (35 Years Of Frankie Dettori at Goodwood) Who among the apprentices in this 6f handicap could hope to lay claim to Dettori’s boots?
A major change has occurred in the years since Frankie was apprentice champion (1989 with 71 winners), even since Ryan Moore (2003 champion) and William Buick (2008).
It finally came when the apprentices title went to Amy Ryan (2012) and then Josephine Gordon (2016); now, in this race today, four of the seven riders are female.
Billy Loughnane is ‘the one most likely to’ step into Frankie’s footprints with 51 strikes this year already.
But three of the last four winners of this event have been Sophie Raiston, Mollie Phillips and Isobel Francis; all were claiming in the race.
Mollie returns today on Under Curfew, along with Georgia Dobie and Rhiain Ingram but Olivia Tubb is the one with a 5lb claim off Q Twenty Boy.
Only Under Curfew and Q Twenty Boy are CD winners, as successful in this race in the last two years, but the final stat is that no horse or rider has won back to back.
I fancy Paddy Bradley on Concierge to show them all the way. This seven-year-old has won at 5f, 6f and 7f, twice on firm ground, and is currently 22lb lower than his winning form in the Spring two years ago in class 2.
KING NICKY TO LAND HAT-TRICK
⭕ 2.50 Market Rasen Overcast skies clinging to the Lincolnshire wolds – and some judicious watering – has allowed some decent fields for decent prizes, with a more than decent natural-grandstand view reminiscent of Sandown Park.
Tricky Nicky Henderson has picked his spot and finished in the frame five times in a row, still standing, in June; two out of two with winning favourites at Worcester (June 3) and Southwell (June 6).
King Alexander is his sole starter today on a track where he strikes at 26%. Nico De Boinville attempts to ride the hat-trick of favourites, and a treble on the five-year-old.
King Alexander (Betdaq Betting Exchange 2.99 this morning) has scored under him at Warwick and Ffos Las this Spring, given a new lease of life by wind surgery.
Mullinaree’s hat-trick has come two grades lower than today, and you must decide: is he unexposed or aiming too high? Luttrell Lad tries a new trip.
Hang In There likes Market Rasen (form figures there 122); best form is over fences and he has to give weight all round off 12st. It also looks tough for Earlofthecotswolds after 530 days away from the Jumps scene.
Impulsive One has won a class 2 but Nicky Henderson knows all about that one; the win was for him before the gelding moved to Brian Ellison.
Sacre Coeur has won only on the soft, and The Wounded Knee is struggling in the ratings now, after being hiked 16lb for back-to-back success last summer.
LET ME GET THIS BET ON NOW
⭕ 3.20 Market Rasen The 2.20 is a guide to the 3.20. Let Me Be, third off 12st, had to give lumps of weight to the second, Magna Moralia, and the fourth, Rory And Me, when they finished together in a class 4 here just 18 days back.
The 3.20 is a stronger race over further and Let Me Be is getting weight from all bar the claimed-off Gentleman Valley.
An hour earlier, Magna Moralia and Rory And Me could give a boost to the form, so I’m taking some 6.4 Let Me Be before that happens.
Betty Baloo has excellent form when chasing here but is just 1-8 over hurdles altogether, so Gentleman Valley is the danger.
⭕ 4.10 Thirsk Knightswood, who started out in handicaps off 88, and is only 3lb higher than when scoring at Ripon eight days ago, can back up that win from a mark of 79 here.
⭕ 9.00 Haydock Roger Varian, who has had three winners over the last two days, asks Oisin Murphy to get a grip on the unruly Fox Vision in the three-year-old’s first handicap.
DAQMAN’S BETS
2.50 Market Rasen (win 20, nap)
BET 10pts win KING ALEXANDER
3.20 Market Rasen (win 20)
BET 4pts win LET ME BE
4.10 Thirsk (win 10)
BET 10pts win KNIGHTSWOOD
6.25 Goodwood (win 20)
BET 2.5pts win CONCIERGE
9.00 Haydock (win 10)
BET 5pts win FOX VISION
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