6-1 WINNER FOR DAQMAN THANKS TO HORSE-AND-RIDER COURAGE We have to thank Dapper Man and his apprentice jockey, Saffie Osborne, for clearing most of the Daqman debts yesterday when the pair refused to give in after being headed close home in the opener at Haydock and battled back for success by a neck and a neck:
WON 6-1 DAPPER MAN
SANDOWN’S CORAL-ECLIPSE MEETING STARTS WITH A DETTORI NAP Sandown’s Coral-sponsored meeting, featuring the Coral-Eclipse tomorrow, today features the Coral Marathon, in which Daqman naps Frankie Dettori.
CAMPANELLE WINS THE CUP AGAIN
FORTUNE COOKIES: Campanelle’s head defeat in the Commonwealth Cup was turned around by the Stewards and the revised placings confirmed at yesterday’s appeal hearing.
It’s a win-win for Fortune Cookies but the diminished field for tomorrow’s Coral-Eclipse means that for the first time in the Cookies’ seven seasons, we have to choose between them before the race.
Fortune Cookies are horses to follow and, as such, provide ante-post bets, which punters can reassess (lay off or bet against) on the day. So we declare now that the pick of our three in the four-runner race is Addeybb, generally 3-1 and 100-30.
Despite there being a selection from our runners, the season’s profit and loss on the Cookies at level stakes has to apply to all runners.
KABOO TO GET ASCOT MONEY BACK
⭕ 2.20 Sandown The Coral two-day sponsorship opens with a 5f sprint for two-year-olds, which usually goes to gates one-to-four (7 out of 10).
Fearby, out of stall 6, and his runner-up at Wetherby are class 4 until proving otherwise. So, too, Mojomaker, albeit a winner on today’s course.
Navello (stall 8) was pitched into a Listed here – third in soft ground – before being outclassed in the Norfolk. His turf successes came on very sharp tracks at Chester (beat Devious Angel six lengths) and Brighton.
Little Earl (stall 2) was runner-up, just in front of Navello, in the Sandown Listed but was then behind that one in the Norfolk on firm ground.
Kaboo (in the one stall) was gambled on at Royal Ascot: ran green and not disgraced in the Windsor Castle, finishing well in front of Poderoso, who had run second to Instinctive Move (stall 4) at Bath.
BETDAQ BETTING EXCHANGE VALUE 2.7 Kaboo
MILDENBERGER MARATHON KING
⭕ 2.55 Sandown (Coral Marathon) I fancied Mildenberger for the Northumberland Plate and he ran well, fifth, considering he’d had a long holiday.
Last year’s winning jockey in this Marathon, Frankie Dettori, who rides Mildenberger today, is able to assess the horse’s chances in the Goodwood Cup, when he is likely to keep the ride on his Royal Ascot ‘gold’ scorer, Subjectivist.
Red Verdon has never won beyond 1m 6f and was last of four over 2m behind Mildenberger last year.
Max Vega likes cut in the ground and this is his first run outside Group company but success has come at 1m and 1m 2f.
Max was a bit unlucky in the 2020 Geoffrey Freer (1m 5f +) – rider dropped whip – when second to Hukum, but Hukum has improved this season, whereas Max has to prove he can do the same after a 258-day break.
The Grand Visir was second in the Chester Cup in May to the 2019 winner of this race, Falcon Eight.
Withhold has battled in the best company and his winning form has come in small-field affairs like this one, when allowed to get his own way in front. I can’t see Frankie falling for that.
BETDAQ value 3.1 Mildenberger.
IT’S DETTORI AGAIN ON DUKEDOM
⭕ 3.30 Sandown La Pulga was paper favourite for this until slow away at Haydock yesterday and Frankie Dettori on the Dubawi colt Dukedom has taken over pole position.
I had a good punt in this in 2018 on the Gosden team’s King Of Comedy; if you haven’t seen the film, I rate it one of De Niro’s best. He needed a bravura comic performance to beat Jerry Lewis at his own game.
Dukedom, first foal of a French 1,000 Guineas runner-up, is related to a July Cup winner.
Goldsmith was the most expensive horse in the race, trained by David Menuisier, who has a phenomenal 28% strike rate at Sandown.
BETDAQ value 2.94 Dukedom
GLEN HAS THE FORM IN THE BOOK
⭕ 4.05 Sandown Was John Leeper a Derby disaster or did he simply fail to act on the course? He had looked promising with back-to-back wins in the Spring.
Another second-season animal, Gloucestershire, one run one win at Kempton, could be anything for Martyn Meade, who came so close to winning the Irish Derby with Lone Eagle.
Three-year-olds won four of the first five runnings of this Gala Stakes but have failed to beat the older horses since 2007.
For the oldies, Father Of Jazz, 3-4 on AW, has yet to shine on grass and has failed in Listed races like this one the last twice.
And I shall have my pound on Euchen Glen, who belied his age on a soft surface over today’s Sandown CD when beating Sangarius and Fox Tal.
BETDAQ value 3.6 Euchen Glen
DAQMAN’S BETS:
2.20 Sandown (win 10)
BET 5.75pts win KABOO
2.55 Sandown (win 10 nap)
BET 5pts win MILDENBERGER
3.30 Sandown (win 10)
BET 5pts win DUKEDOM
4.05 Sandown (win 10)
BET 4pts win EUCHEN GLEN
What are points? Points facilitate a staking plan, which is the secret to creating profit. One point is whatever you choose: a pound, a euro, or whatever ….
Start with a bank and decide how much you can afford to lose over a period of time, and determine the size of your bets accordingly. Daqman makes this variation every day.
