SUPER ‘MISS’ A 7-1 CLASSIC HIT FOR DAQMAN: ‘Allez France!’ said Daqman and the French raider, Miss France (WON 7-1), always in the first three, flew the tricolour home in yesterday’s Newmarket 1,000 Guineas, another triumph for his unique ABC guide.
5-1 WIN PUTS UP MIGHTY 66 OVER PRICEWISE: Miss France completed a double whammy over Pricewise yesterday, after Daqman opened the shots with Mighty Yar (WON 5-1), going 27-wins-to-6 in front for the Flat in his challenge to the Racing Post column and 66-18 overall.
DOUBLE-BANKER BANK HOLIDAY: With 15 winning naps out of 20 (eight bankers out of nine), Daqman goes to The Curragh for a maximum-stakes banker plus a 12.0 outsider, and adds a second banker, the nap at Beverley. He checks out the seven other holiday meetings and explains his bets.
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MAGICIAN HAS MOORESBRIDGE IN THE BAG
3.05 The Curragh (Tetrarch Stakes) Punters usually get this right with seven winning favourites out of 10 and only one winner bigger than 11-2 SP.
Jim Bolger (11144) and David Wachman (1020010) target the race, with Gentleman Jim the most successful. Kevin Manning, who has ridden Bolger’s three, now partners Focus On Venice.
But a line through Gold Peregrine says that Great White Eagle comes out on top on all known form, with his Ballydoyle yard making life difficult for us by a four-wheel drive against the Bolger-Wachman pole positions.
So far, Great White Eagle has been confined to 6f, as has Fountain Of Youth, but the two other O’Brien stablemates, Michaelmas and The Islander, have already ‘done good’ at this 7f.
Joseph O’Brien prefers Michaelmas but his form and breeding shout soft ground, while I don’t see why Great White Eagle, only eighth in the Middle Park, should get a higher rating than Fountain Of Youth, a running-on fourth in a six-way photo for the Windsor Castle at Royal Ascot.
The Eagle’s Group-3 win at The Curragh in September (for which he must carry a penalty) has been let down by seven of the eight behind him, all bar Intensical, one of the Bolgers which take him on today.
Both Intensical and Focus On Venice – seemingly the Bolger number one, with Kevin Manning in the plate – have already won this season, and we saw yesterday the edge of a recent run bring about the defeat of my banker.
Night Of Thunder and Miss France proved yet again that trial races are indeed trials and the form is suspect.
So, if you must have a bet in this, you need a price, but bear in mind that the BETDAQ exchanges should show you at the ‘off’ what is likely to win. I took some 12.0 Fountain of Youth, intending to save on the market leader at the ‘off.’
There was early strength behind Shining Emerald, second in the Leopardstown 2,000 Guineas Trial on the soft but the winner was only a handicapper, and the trainer has to be right that he’s ‘come on a lot.’
Focus On Venice was easy to back at 9.0, no doubt because of his sire’s passing on a penchant for an easy surface.
4.15 The Curragh (Mooresbridge Stakes) Four-year-olds are 8 out of 10 in this and Aidan O’Brien (who should be off the mark for the day with The Great War in the opener) has a personal sequence in this race which is just as impressive: 101111 since 2007, including with dual Derby winner Camelot last season.
The Irish 2,000 Guineas and Breeders’ Cup winner, Magician, who loves firmish ground and needs a strongly-run race at this trip, has handicapper Hall Of Mirrors to set the pace, and has to beat only Listed winner Paene Magnus and the disappointing Parish Hall.
I can’t remember when I last saw a pacemaker gelded for the job. Or has the master of Ballydoyle mapped out a hurdles career for ‘him’ already. I think we should be told.
5.25 The Curragh (Athasi Stakes) Renamed after Canford Cliffs for the third year running, but the race has again failed to attract a runner from Team Hannon, his stable.
Three-year-olds are four out of six, and only the spoiler of heavy ground in 2009 and 2012 has let in the older horses. It’s good to firm today.
Three points separated the front five in the BETDAQ orange this morning but, if we take out the soft-ground older horses, Peace Burg and Wannabe Better, we are left with the Dermot Weld pair.
We don’t want Pianota first time up and we’re put right off Beyond Brilliance, with not so much as a penny for her in the market, freely available at 24.0 and more.
Flying Jib was the better of the Weld pair last season, 12lb better, and Tahaany has done nothing for her rating this season with heavy-ground success in a three-horse race at Cork.
5.55 The Curragh The Racing Post continues with its infamous Topdraw panel, in which this race is marked ‘70%’ to the Low numbers, contradicted by their own Spotlight, who says that Household Cavalry ‘hasn’t got the best of draws’ in stall 2. Oh, the half-life of ‘facts’!
BATH: Good Value (2.35) is one for your holiday DAQ MULTIPLES, with Sir Michael Stoute hitting peak form. I’ll put him with Clear Focus at Warwick, Magician at The Curragh and Grasped (3.15 Beverley) and Davy Russell’s only mount of the day (now read on).
BEVERLEY: Ever Fortune (3.15) sneaks under the handicapper’s radar, running here off the same mark as when winning five days ago, but raised in class and from a stable with modest prospects.
Yet the market says he is the only danger to Grasped, Lady Cecil’s improver, a granddaughter of Nureyev and earmarked for better things.
Toto Skyllachy (3.50) has been geared up for a repeat in his race off the same mark as his winning one, and he’s been four times successful on the course.
Ingleby Symphony usually wins first time up so his defeat at Ayr was a bit disappointing. Dubai Dynamo, behind that day, keeps dropping down the handicap.
But King Of The Danes is down in class here on ground that he likes and 7.8 on BETDAQ this morning was too big.
DOWN ROYAL: Davy Russell can sit around the weighing-room, filling in his stamp collection. He’s stuck on one ride here, Jansboy (4.05), a horse with a future over fences, with his debut chase form franked and the ground in his favour. Penny black.
KEMPTON: Match of the day could be the renewed rivalry between Saint Roque and Rum And Butter (2.15), separated half a length over hurdles at level weights.
It features the clash of 19-times-champion-jockey A P McCoy and the young pretender, fresh to the Paul Nicholls circus, Sam Twiston-Davies.
Rum And Butter has two years on Saint Roque, who is coming to fences late in the day and didn’t help an over-confident young ‘Twiston’ at Cheltenham recently.
WARWICK: In The Tetrarch at the Curragh I’ve dismissed Kevin Manning’s mount because his colt’s sire, Intense Focus, passes on his love for cut in the ground.
Here’s 5.0 in the BETDAQ orange, Clear Focus (3.05), same sire, getting the soft ground at Warwick, against a field of maidens which contains horses trained by the cold-list stables of McMahon, Portman, Baugh and Tinkler, and the Mick Channon yard, which has gone nearly three years on the course without a winner in 34 tries. Credit where it’s due; thanks, Racing Post.
DAQMAN’S BETS
BET 6pts win RUM AND BUTTER (2.15 Kempton)
BET 1.8pts win and place FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH (3.05 The Curragh)
BET 5pts win CLEAR FOCUS (3.05 Warwick)
BANKER: BET 20pts win (nap) GRASPED (3.15 Beverley)
BET 6pts win TOTO SKYLLACHY and 3pts win KING OF THE DANES (3.50 Beverley)
BET 12pts win JANSBOY (4.05 Down Royal)
BANKER: BET 20pts win MAGICIAN (4.15 The Curragh)
BET 10pts win FLYING JIB (5.25 The Curragh)
DAQ HOLIDAY MULTIPLES: 5 x 1pt win four-folds and 1pt acca Good Value (2.35 Bath), Clear Focus (3.05 Warwick), Grasped (3.15 Beverley), Jansboy (4.05 Down Royal) Magician (4.15 The Curragh).
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