UNBEATEN SUPERNAPS: FOUR IN A ROW: With the Ayr meeting abandoned, Daqman had to start again late on yesterday but fortunately had a supernap lined up at Yarmouth, making four from four since their launch.
WON 13-8 CAPE BYRON
WON 10-11 CARAVAGGIO
WON 5-2 LAGOSTOVEGAS
WON 4-9 GABR
TEMPLE CHURCH A HIDDEN HORSE
1.20 Newbury Final Treat, half-sister to Finsceal Bio, could be the third consecutive debut winner of this event, last year captured by her trainer, William Haggas, who has Ryan Moore booked.
1.50 Newbury The Haggas-Moore combo has Beshaayir badly drawn in this division, though she also had a prohibitive double-figure stall when beaten only a nose over today’s Newbury CD on her debut. But the winner has flopped since, and the third won only a modest class-4 at a lower-level track.
Charles Hill’s Dewhurst entry, Rewaayat, related to the stable star’s sprinter Muhaarar, is also drawn out in the car park, next door to Beshaayir.
Haylah’s dam is related to debut winners, including one trained out of the Hannon yard and including her 119-rated dam’s sire, Kyllachy, who never finished out of the first four and ended up winning the Nunthorpe. Haylah looked big at 14.0 against the odds-on Beshaayir this morning on BETDAQ.
2.55 Newbury Three-year-olds, who have won this five years out of nine, are represented solely by ‘hidden horse’ Temple Church, whose dam’s side included winners of the French St Leger and the Doncaster Cup.
Tongue-tied first time today and suddenly stepped up in trip after a gelding op, the York fourth to Defoe won the Haynes, Hanson and Clark here at Newbury last October (the race run at 3.30 today).
Front-runner Danehill Kodiac, beaten little more than a length, fourth, in a Group 3 at Kempton (Wild Hacked third), should set a target for Temple Church’s stamina.
A strong pace may also suit hurdles winner Minotaur, prolific on the Flat in France, and 2m-winner Blakeney Point, while Gawdawpalin’s chance is boosted by the success of his dual Ascot conqueror, Great Hall.
We keep expecting a sudden late surge by Marcus Tregoning (Dance The Dream) but no sign yet. He has one of the stable’s star races coming up at 3.30.
SECOND THOUGHT’S FIRST!
3.30 Newbury (Haynes, Hanson and Clark) The Temple Church stable goes for back-to-back wins in this with the newcomer, Candidate, a well-related son of Camelot, who won his first five starts.
Five times winner of this, the Tregoning stable has the eye-catching first-timer. Khazaf, by champion European two-year-old and subsequent Guineas winner, New Approach, and related on the dam’s side to a Ribblesdale winner and a King George hero.
The Kodiac colt, Bon Scotte, another Hannon-Moore job today, disposed of Wednesday’s Sandown winner, Kitaabat, when they met at Goodwood. White Mocha had two winners behind when ‘the moral’ at Salisbury, beaten a neck, giving 6lb to the winner.
Unlike Bon Scotte and White Mocha, Macaque gets away without a penalty for cruising a two-horse race at Brighton, before running up to one that had twice finished second to Aussie Wind. But, since Aussie Wind is trained by Hugo Palmer, I see it as another pointer to White Mocha.
4.00 Newbury Tupi is back to his right trip and ground, Koropick is dropped from the Pattern, and Tabarrak won a Listed like this one in the Spring.
However, unpenalised three-year-olds usually win this (they’re five out of six). Dream of Dreams has just come good and Princess De Lune ‘could be anything.’
But it’s hard to desert Second Thought and I have a feeling that Eartha Kitt can improve for the furlong step up in trip.
Second Thought is another to have won a Listed already, and last time out proved that he is not just an AW star but can act very well on turf, second to champion sprinter Harry Angel, albeit at a respectful distance in a Group 2.
DAQMAN BETS (each staked to win 20 points)
BET 7.5pts win FINAL TREAT (1.20 Newbury)
BET 1.5pts win and place HAYLAH (1.50 Newbury)
BET 6pts win (nap) TEMPLE CHURCH (2.55 Newbury)
BET 1pts win WHITE MOCHA (3.30 Newbury)
BET 8pts win SECOND THOUGHT, and 2pts win and place EARTHA KITT (4.00 NEWBURY)
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