BACK-TO-BACK ‘SUPER NAPS’: Daqman is two out of two with his new super-nap bet, following up Friday’s special by moving all in on Caravaggio, the comfortable Flying Five winner at The Curragh yesterday. The back-to-back super naps were:
WON 13-8 CAPE BYRON (Friday)
WON 10-11 CARAVAGGIO (Sunday)
DAQMAN BAGS FRENCH ACE: Pricewise got two back on Daqman in their value challenge but our man hit back immediately with the Prix Vermeille winner in France, taking the scores to 71-15 in favour of Daqman, who is 306 points clear of his rival:
WON 53-10 BATEEL (Sunday)
BRIGHTON NAP: DAQMAN starts the week at Brighton with his nap. Elsewhere it’s a day of jumping.
CHAMPAGNE CHARLIE IS HIS NAME
More top two-year-olds! Aidan O’Brien has a whole string of potential runners in the Champagne Stakes on Saturday’s Doncaster’s St Leger card. But it’s not his race. He’s won it only once with a modest sort who finished his career with just a Listed win at the top of his CV.
No, it’s Charlie Appleby who saves his precocious juveniles for this, winning twice in the last four years with successful gambles on one that beat The Grey Gatsby and one hammered into odds on.
Both had had only two previous starts and had won at the July Meeting. He chooses from three this week, showing what a grand bunch of two-year-olds he’s got:
GLORIOUS JOURNEY Charlie’s 2,600,000gns Dubawi colt won first time out at the opening July Meeting of the season in early June. He then made all, ‘in full control’ says the formbook, to take a Group 3 at Saint-Cloud.
MYTHICAL MAGIC Also followed his winning debut – an Ascot maiden – with success in France, also making all. The son of Iffraaj was always holding Cascadian at Deauville (soft) though Cascadian was odds on after a very easy launch at Chantilly.
MASAR New Approach colt, more exposed than his stablemates, has won at Goodwood and Sandown, and was not disgraced, third, to September and Nyaleti in the Chesham Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Meanwhile, Jim Bolger says that his National Stakes hero yesterday, Verbal Dexterity, is ‘as good as any two-year-old’ he’s ever trained. He at first said the best.
But he probably remembered similar verbals when he won the same race with Teofilo in 2006. It was no surprise when Teofilo went on to win the Dewhurst and was unbeaten in five starts.
But unfortunately, Teofilo (Galileo out of a Danehill mare) sustained a knee injury and missed his Classic year, Aidan O’Brien picking up the Galileos and running with them for the next decade. Better luck this time, Gentleman Jim.
Cracksman duly won his Arc trial but Frankie Dettori is said to still favour the same stable’s favourite for the race, Enable. I’d wait a couple of weeks, Frankie, and see how things go.
One possible Arc rival for the Gosden-Dettori selected could be Order Of St George, who ran away with the Irish St Leger like a train.
HAIL CAESAR IN THE MUD
3.25 Brighton Sole flat card of the day and there aren’t too many punting opportunities on it either. Plenty of rain in the south and the ground is forecast as good to soft and soft in places.
Black Caesar was such an impressive course and distance winner a week ago that I think a follow up under the statutory 6lb penalty looks very much on the cards.
He bolted home by six lengths on good ground seven days ago but has winning form on good to soft (here at Brighton) so that can’t be a factor. He always runs this track well and that’s a big positive on such an idiosyncratic circuit.
King Of Swing was another wide margin winner last time out. He bolted home by five lengths at Chelmsford having previously finished a close-up third at Lingfield on soft ground. He is an infrequent winner – just two wins from 22 starts and the 9lb penalty for the Chelmsford win might be a big anchor.
The bulk of Field Of Vision’s form has come over shorter trips and this trip and going is likely to stretch his stamina. At bigger odds, Good Luck Charm is a course specialist who could again get into the frame.
4.45 Newton Abbot This is a desperately poor contest in which top weight Hongkong Adventure could get very competitive with Fergus Gregory taking off the maximum 10lb.
The trip looked too long for him at Southwell last time out but he travelled well in that race and there was more than a hint of ability previously at Market Rasen where he finished fifth at Market Rasen in a much better contest than this.
5.05 Perth Boris Grishenko has been a beaten favourite in both his starts in Ireland and I wouldn’t be jumping in to back him to make it third time lucky here – despite Gordon Elliott’s superb course record.
Buy Mistake may be up to defying a penalty for his debut Hexham success. He was well supported in that race and was driven out to win well. He hold’s Mick’s Wish on that form.
DAQMAN’S BETS (Staked to win 20 points)
BET 10.8pts win (nap) BLACK CAESAR (3.25 Brighton)
BET 6.0pts win HONGKONG ADVENTURE (4.45 Newton Abbot)
BET 6.6pts win BUY MISTAKE (5.05 Perth)
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