BANKER MAKES IT SIX NAPS OUT SEVEN: Daqman landed his banker, Red Icon, yesterday to make it six winning naps from the last seven, the only loser running second, beaten half a length:
WON 13-8 Lawman’s Thunder
WON 5-4 Russian Realm
WON 11-4 Tioga Pass
WON 4-6 Adelaide (banker)
WON 2-1 Never Never
2nd 3-1 Loch Ma Naire
WON 6-5 Red Icon (banker)
180 POINTS PROFIT IN EIGHT DAYS: His eight-day naps sequence hit 1111121 for a profit of 180 points (to 20-point level stakes). Best returns from nine bets in seven Thursday races were 1311113, continuing on from Red Icon with While You Wait (WON 4-5), and savers on Tiggy Wiggy (WON 3-1 ) and Brown Panther (WON 2-1).
PRICEWISE NOSE OUT OF JOINT AGAIN: Brown Panther was a winner over Pricewise, but Daqman does not count break-even races. However, he then proceeded to pip Pricewise by a nose on Sharestan (WON 5-6), taking his Flat-season score to 34-9 over the Racing Post column, 73-21 since his challenge began.
MOIDORE CLASS ACT IN TWO-MILER
NEWMARKET: The July Course is the best racing picnic after the Melbourne Cup or The Curragh on Irish Derby day. And, for once, the party lasts longer than in Ireland, with 22 meetings from today until August 23.
It’s never a picnic for punters, with puzzles such as the classified (4.50) this afternoon, in which the runners are officially rated 75 (three times), 74 and 73 (three times). Pick the cherry out of that!
There’s one of the biggest balloons to burst if the £2.6m Galileo yearling Hydrogen can ‘get beat’ in the Derby-distance 1m 4f maiden (3.05).
Trainer Peter Chapple-Hyam has the best line to the Derby of almost any stable, in that his Arod was second in the prestigious trial, the Dante Stakes at York.
Beaten less than five lengths in the Dante was Saab Almanal, who takes on Hydrogen here, but Hydrogen is more likely to have his balloon pricked by George Washington’s half-sister, Ribblesdale entry Wonderstruck, or the John Gosden pair, Forever Now and Mr Smith. I shall be following the winner of this; looks a good race.
Hillybilly Boy and Majestic Moon (3.40) are both front-runners. Can one of them slip the field or will they set the race up for a hold-up horse? Will that be Victoire De Lyphar, continuing his run on ground he loves?
The answers are in the hands of William Buick on the now-gelded Life Partner (7.0 on BETDAQ, as I write), who travels well in his races and is with a stable in form.
The 1m 2f handicap has been won two years running by a subsequent Group horse, and Cloudscape (4.15) has a lot in hand on Bremner and Top Tug on Rowley Mile form.
Though the Godolphin duo, Devilment and Famous Kid, are threatening, Kieren Fallon reckons Famous Kid badly in for his first handicap, 7lb or so too high.
The one to beat them all, getting a stone from all bar one on this soft ground, is Barye, 5.6 offers on BETDAQ as I write.
NEWCASTLE: Take out the old boys in the two-miler (3.50) – Nafaath, Cape Tribulation and Categorical – none of whom have won over this trip on this ground on the Flat (turf).
Take out those with poor records on the soft – Nashville, Sir Frank Morgan, Albonny – and one who has yet to get in the frame at the trip on turf – Arr’ Kid – and you are left with the top four.
I couldn’t fancy Rosairlie to put back-to-back wins together and Mr Snoozy has never scored this high in the ratings.
So I see Man of Plenty as the danger to Moidore, the class horse of the race (why else is he top weight), beaten only about four lengths in the Northumberland Plate on today’s very track.
Moidore (7.0 on BETDAQ this morning) is down 7lb on that run, is being claimed off, dropped in grade for the first time in 11 starts, and a winner on heavy ground. Nap.
HAYDOCK: Ali Rawlinson 11 (Polar Forest), Tim Clark 9 (Poor Duke), Kevin Stott (Gran Maestro) 5. That’s the tally of winners among the boys riding tonight in the BETDAQ-sponsored apprentice race (6.30). Ali’s mount, Polar Forest, has reached the first four 18 times in 26 starts.
There is a lot going for Arctic Feeling (7.30). The heavy-ground scorer won on his fourth start last year, two grades higher in class 2 and, showing improved form last time, Richard Fahey seems to be pressing the button today, applying blinkers for the first time, yet I could get 11.5 on BETDAQ.
Bond Fastrac also looks poised but his fair finish at Newcastle last month was his first run since late on in 2012. Prince Regal has run in better races and he, too, could repeat success on his fourth start last term.
He’s 6.2 on BETDAQ, as I write, but Arctic Feeling is a crazy price at offers of 10.5. But crazy’s not the word for the offers in the big race at Stratford..
STRATFORD: It’s a pivotal night for Pointers and hunter-chasers at tonight’s championship, and that famous Corinthian, Sam Waley-Cohen, will be favourite to win the Foxhunters on Paint The Clouds.
But, with his stamina suspect for this – and that applies to many in the race – I shall have my pound on Pearlysteps, though the spectacularly wrong price in the race for a flutter is the massive 22.0 on BETDAQ about Start Royal, who emerged from the Points field with a machine-like demolition job at Fontwell.
DAQMAN’S BETS
BET 3.3pts win LIFE PARTNER (3.40 Newmarket)
BET 3.3pts win (nap) MOIDORE (3.50 Newcastle)
BET 7.5pts win CLOUDSCAPE and 3.3pts win BARYE (4.15 Newmarket)
BET 3.75pts win PRINCE REGAL, and 2pts win and place ARCTIC FEELING (7.30 Haydock)
BET 7.5pts win PEARLYSTEPS, and 1pt win and place START ROYAL (8.25 Stratford)
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