DAQMAN ON FOUR NAPS IN A ROW: New Bay’s Longchamp romp yesterday gave Daqman a fourth consecutive winning nap, and back-to-back weekend bankers, as follows:
WON 5-1 Gretchen (nap)
WON 7-4 Gutaifan (nap)
WON 8-13 Emotionless (banker)
WON 6-5 New Bay (banker)
HE LANDS TWO WEEKEND LEGERS: He scored doubles at both Longchamp and The Curragh, with a profit on the day of more than 70 points, adding the Irish version with Order Of St George (WON 5-4) to his English St Leger on Saturday (Bondi Beach WON 2-1). His winners yesterday were:
WON 15-2 Minding (13.0 on BETDAQ)
WON 31-10 Move In Time
WON 5-4 Order Of St George
WON 6-5 New Bay
100 WINNING BETS IN PRICEWISE CHALLENGE: The last three winners counted in his value challenge to the Racing Post and brought the score to Daqman 86, Pricewise 14, a match total of 100 winning bets this Flat season. The score since Thursday during the weekend of big races was Daqman 5, Pricewise 1.
DAQMAN MAKING HEADLINES DAY AFTER DAY
Daqman is the man for profit. He has landed 11 winners in the last five days, making them unmissable with a continuation of his famous hot headlines:
GANNICUS TO GET LEGEND WIN FOR McCOY (Won 7-2)
GRETCHEN BRED TO WIN FILLIES’ ST LEGER (Won 5-1)
BE A FRANKIE FAN IN THE FLYING CHILDERS (Won 7-4)
PURE FREAK OR DOES ROCKS LIE IN HER PATH? (Won 7-2)
EMOTIONLESS FOR NAPS HAT-TRICK CHAMPAGNE (Won 8-13)
ST LEGER SECRET AGENT? THE NAME’S BONDI (Won 2-1)
TIME FOR ABBAYE WINNER TO STRIKE AGAIN (Won 3-1)
FABRE’S ARC HOPE NEW BAY IS HERE TO STAY (Won 6-5)
ST LEGER DOUBLE ON ORDER AT THE CURRAGH (Won 5-4)
His big-race ABC guides are also on fire. The last two he analysed days in advance were the Celebration Mile and the Doncaster St Leger for the last two Saturdays, with the headings..
KODI BEAR PUNTERS EXPECT CELEBRATION (Won 4-5)
LEGER SET TO BE BALLYDOYLE BEACH PARTY (Won 2-1)
TREVE BLOWS THEM AWAY IN VERMEILLE VICTORY
Hein! Quoi le phoque? Or whatever is your French equivalent of ‘what the hell?” is what Andre Fabre must have been thinking at approximately 3.20 p.m., in the Bois de Boulogne yesterday.
Unexpectedly to some tipsters – but not to yours truly – Fabre had determined on a ‘proper’ race not a don’t-be-hard-on-him French-style trial for New Bay, his Arc de Triomphe candidate, and he (and I) reaped a sensational reward, as the colt skipped away with the renowned Prix Niel test at Longchamp.
But half an hour after we had used up our traditional stock of journalistic epithets on New Bay’s victory (that word ‘sensational’ and the more objective ‘so easy’), Press and public alike – and maybe M. Fabre, too – were rendered speechless.
If words did not fail us, then those expletives crept in, as Treve demolished her field (what other word can I use?) in the very next Arc trial, the Prix Vermeille.
Ok, I can use familiar racing phrases – ‘in a different league’; ‘out on her own’ – but they also fail to express the sheer disdainful dominance of this dual Arc winner as she languidly cruised to a Vermeille victory which declared: ‘Sorry, guys; the Arc’s still mine!’
And what was the comment of her trainer, Criquette Head-Marek after the slaughter? ‘She needed the race!’
My long-term Arc view cannot be refuted; that Jack Hobbs – given the summer to mature – will be very hard to beat at Longchamp. Ditto New Bay, whom I napped for the French Derby, and we have an amazing contest on our hands.
But ‘quelle chance avez vous’ against Treve! Not a lot, mon ami, if she produces yesterday’s shimmering acceleration from cruise control.
The Classic generation will be left blowing in the wind, unless someone can come up with better tactics than last year, when she was badly drawn and seemingly outrun, yet still she trotted up.
One way or another, it’s going to be do or die against her, maybe with pacemakers trying to bust her lungs, or a break-her-spirit spurt into the infamous straight by the three-year-olds, who have two years on her. Bon chance, say I. Bon chance!
HAKKA WOULD BE A SHARP BET AS FAVOURITE
4.40 Wolverhampton Best race of the day in England is this one-mile plus handicap (class 3), which – not surprisingly for the time of year – was won by a three-year-old last term, the first running of the race.
You can be confident of Hakka if she starts favourite. Sir Michael Stoute is on a losing run of 18, not counting the only two market leaders at the ‘off’. Significantly, those two favourites both won!
Hakka broke her maiden over this CD and, stepped up to today’s class, stopped a hat-trick sequence by a dual Newmarket winner, with the fourth horse home a scorer since.
Ted Durcan, who has ridden the son of a Group-1 winning dam to both his victories, says that ‘the more he races, the more he sharpens up,’ albeit he’s had a 41-day holiday since the last day.
5.00 Brighton Rain is expected on top of the firm ground at Brighton where the classiest race on the card – class 4, in fact- is a sprint, which makes picking winners difficult.
All we can do is look for trainers in or out of form and horses which do well on the course, but would you believe six are CD winners!
From among them, Ginzan’s stable is in cracking form, with, currently, a quite staggering (for such a small yard) 12 out of 13 in the first four.
Ginzan (9.8 on BETDAQ this morning) has now dropped back to within a pound of her mark on this course when the mare achieved back-to-back wins in the Spring. She’s won on firm and good to soft, so not too much rain please.
The run of Ivan Furtado (Quickaswecan) seems to have come to an end, with three consecutive losing favourites, though it could be that his sequence of success was the cause of such short prices.
BETDAQ BETS (staked 1-9; banker 10)
BANKER: BET 10pts win (nap) HAKKA (4.40 Wolverhampton)
BET 4pts win and place GINZAN (5.00 Brighton)
DAQ MULTIPLES: 2pts win double the two
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