NAPS-DOUBLE DAQMAN 72 POINTS UP: Gallant tipping crusader Daqman is in form for ladies’ day at Epsom after scoring in two races out of three for the second day running on Thursday, including back-to-back naps. Total profit: 72 points.
Thursday: Profit on the day: 16.09 points
WON 6-5 GALLANT (nap)
WON 2-1 FAHRENHEIT SEVEN
Wednesday: Profit on the day: 56 points
WON 7-4 BOYFRIEND (nap)
WON 2-1 MR PERCY (bull’s-eye bet)
TODAY: The Oaks draw produces a race of champions.
TOMORROW: Derby Day with Daqman’s outsider
IT’S THE RACE OF CHAMPIONS
⭕ 4.00 Epsom (The Oaks) Take out three Frankie Dettori Oaks strikes from the last decade and you get seven winners by stall of 2:4:3:3:5:1:5
Frankie also won from gates 9, 10 and 12, beating into second place 4, 3 and 5. None of his four Oaks successes in the 10 years was favourite, partly due to the ‘poor’ draws.
In these telling stats is the genius of the man. He even won one Oaks out of stall 10 from the outside with his mount taking ‘a keen hold’.
In just four more words is what happened to turn defeat into victory: ‘in rear after 3f’. Dettori had taken charge.
Nearest to him in the decade was three wins for Ryan Moore from 1:4:5, and today could be his day again out of 2.
But, dramatically setting up a great race this afternoon, is a draw that has lined up in stalls 1:2:3:4 FOUR champion jockeys.
1: DESERT FLOWER (pictured below) (William Buick; British champion Flat jockey 2022 and 23).
Unbeaten 5-5; winner of the May Hill, the Fillies Mile and the Newmarket 1,000 Guineas. ‘By far the best filly we’ve had,’ says Charlie Appleby. ‘She settles and does all her best work in the final furlong.’
2: MINNIE HAUK (Ryan Moore; British champion 2006, 08 and 09).
With Whirl drawn out wide in nine, Minnie Hauk (Aidan O’Brien) is preferred by Moore. Chester Vase scorer who has won on soft.
3: GISELLE (Colin Keane; Irish champion 2017, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24).
Frankel filly (hooded) out of a daughter of French 2,000 and Derby winner Lope De Vega who was half-sister to an Irish Derby winner.
Beaten by Whirl on soft (1m) as a 2yo but won weak Lingfield Oaks Trial nine lengths on firm.
4: GO GO BOOTS (Oisin Murphy British champion 2020, 21, 22, 24). Nearly six lengths behind Whirl in the Musidora.
REST OF THE DRAW: 5 Elwateen Guineas 4th to Desert Flower; stamina but sire Dubawi has never had an Oaks winner.
6 Revoir, 7 Qilin Queen fought out a short-head finish at Newbury: 8 Wemightakedlongway 5th in the Ballysax behind Derby favourite Delacroix.
9 Whirl by Wootton Bassett out of a sister to Hydrangea and a dual Guineas winner; third runner for Aidan O’Brien.
Won the Musidora in style. Rejected by Ryan Moore.. but she doesn’t know that, as they say!
Betdaq Betting Exchange (102%) 2.64 Desert Flower, 6.7 Minnie Hauk, 7.6 Whirl, 9.6 Giselle, 12 Elwateen and Revoir, 20 Wemightakedlongway, 34 Qilin Queen, 58 Go Go Boots.
MAXIMISE YOUR BLUE BETS
⭕ 2.05 Epsom (Woodcote Stakes) Maximized should get the ‘boys in blue’ of Godolphin in the groove for a great day.
Bought from Cheveley Park for £720,000, the son of Mehmas is by a Pivotal mare, so able to handle some cut.
Jumped out quickly to score first time at Haydock which bodes well for Epsom, though Havana Hurricane’s odds-on 5f strike at Goodwood got a boost when the runner-up, Logi Bear, trotted up at Newmarket, albeit in a trumped-up class 2 for lower levels. They meet again.
CALANDAGAN’S UP FOR CUP
⭕ 2.40 Epsom (Coronation Cup) With Jan Brueghel a rodeo ride, misbehaving on his seasonal debut, the boost is likely to be via Calandagan to Midak’s Derby prospect tomorrow for the Chantilly yard of Francis-Henri Graffard.
Second in three Group 1 (including to Derby winner City Of Troy in the York International) after winning the King Edward V11 at Royal Ascot.
DAQMAN’S BETS on Betdaq Betting Exchange
2.05 Epsom (win 15)
BET 11pts win MAXIMISED
★ 2.40 Epsom (supernap)
BET 20pts win CALANDAGAN
4.00 Epsom (win 20)
BET 12pts win DESERT FLOWER
4.35 Epsom (win 22 & 5.4 a place)
BET 1pt win and place JULIA AUGUSTA
7.50 Doncaster (win 20)
BET 2pts win VOCAL LEGEND
9.00 Doncaster (win 10)
BET 4pts win ANALOGICAL
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