9.0 NAP STARTS BREEDERS CUP WEEK: Daqman goes for Roaring Lion again in his news review and the lion’s share of the value in a 9.0 BETDAQ nap today! He also goes against the flow at Wexford and has a hot saver at Leicester to cover these ‘hidden horses.’
DAQMAN NEWS AND VIEWS ROUND-UP
12-HOUR RACING: The nine-race Breeders Cup day at Del Mar on Saturday follows on seven Jumps races at Ascot. Racing starts at 12.35 in England and ends at 12.35 in America. Twelve hours in which entire betting and training fortunes can be won and lost.
In fact the Breeders’ Cup Classic is run the following day, and the fireworks continue into Tuesday week with the Melbourne Cup.
MUSICAL SADDLES: Jim Crowley loses the ride on Ulysses at Del Mar after piloting him to Eclipse and International successes. Frankie Dettori takes over but loses sprint-star Lady Aurelia to John Velazquez.
So say the headlines though, in fact, Frankie was only ever booked to ride Lady Aurelia in Europe, with Velazquez guaranteed the ride in the US. So nothing to do with his defeat on Lady Aurelia by Marsha in the Nunthorpe.
LION’S SHARE: Straighten out Roaring Lion’s run and he won the Racing Post Trophy. Check out his sire and you find the progeny are big improvers. Check out the dam and he’s the first foal. So how can the Press rave about Saxon Warrior and bookies leave the Lion out at 16-1 and 20-1 for the Guineas and Derby?
WAIT FOR IT: In fact, don’t be in any hurry to back anything for next year’s Flat. At this time last season, super-filly Enable still hadn’t been seen on a racecourse.
She made her debut on the AW at Newcastle on November 28, AFTER the Flat turf season had ended. What price would an Oaks, King George and Arc treble have been that day?
And what price collateral form, and the franking of it? Those behind her at Newcastle have raced a total of 58 times since and won four minor events.
GROUP HORSE IN A HANDICAP: 9.0
1.20 Leicester (Sir Gordon Richards Handicap) It’s 96 years since Sir Gordon won his first race as a jockey here at Leicester on the way to 26 times as champion.
One of our modern champions, Jim Crowley, is entrusted with a 9.0 (on BETDAQ) nap today, Master The World, who has never won at this trip. Correction, never raced at this trip!
But trainer David Elsworth rates this horse Group 3, ‘even Group 2’, a horse with ‘tons of ability.’ He was winning over a mile as a two-year-old and his dam is half-sister to a 1m 5f winner.
1.55 Leicester A good second on the last day but I’d still want to catch Bravery fresh and when others around him are just starting their season, as when he won the Lincoln in April. Doncaster next Spring for the double?
Chatez, not seen for 947 days, is likely to be prepping for a return to hurdles and Bronze Angel may have missed out for another year because of the softish ground.
Michael Bell seems to have kept Fire Brigade going and, if he’s not burnt out after a season which also started in April, he could take this.
Fire Brigade has improved 21lb through the ranks since that Spring reappearance, only once out of the first four in 11 starts.
3.20 Wexford Tiger Roll’s form after a break is 111 and, though he’s a four-mile winner, and giving weight all round to supposedly nippier animals here, I fancy him to start what could be a great season.
He shouldn’t be 5.6 this morning (BETDAQ orange) against 1.59 A Genie In A Bottle, a horse he thrashed at Cheltenham. As for speed, you’re talking about a Triumph Hurdle winner!
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked to win 30 but 50 for the nap)
BULL’S-EYE BET (to win 50) 6.25pts win (nap) MASTER THE WORLD (1.20 Leicester)
BET 12pts win FIRE BRIGADE (1.55 Leicester)
BET 6.5pts win TIGER ROLL (3.20 Wexford)
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