THREE SUPERNAPS UP IN A ROW: 33-1 National winners and short-priced banker bets: they’re all the same to Daqman. He landed his supernaps hat-trick and his third French Classic-trial winner out of four with Zarigana at Longchamp yesterday
Sunday: 12.6 points profit on the day
WON 9-4 SPORTINGSILVERMINE
WON 1-2 ZARIGANA (supernap)
CLASSIC TRIALS TOMORROW: Tomorrow he turns to the English Classic-trials season with the Nell Gwyn for fillies at Newmarket on Tuesday and the Craven Stakes for colts on Wednesday.
ARIZONA TO BLAZE THE TRAIL
⭕ 3.15 Chantilly Remember the pro punters maxim for the new season’s three-year-olds: this year is this year, last year is last.
You can’t rely on 2024 form being repeated or standing up against progressive animals and late developers.
Early-bird stable form is helpful, and flying high are Karl Burke along with Andrew Balding (2,733-1 four-timer on Saturday), who has a dozen players at the Newmarket Craven Meeting.
Burke for England (Miss Lamai) and Adrian Murray for Ireland (Arizona Blaze) go for this Prix Sigy (5.5f) sprint at Chantilly this afternoon, joined by Newmarket-based Hamad Al Jehani (The Strikin Viking ).
The home defenders could be caught out by the good ground at Chantilly (sunny 20 degrees) and by form in the bag this year already for Arizona Blaze.
Winner (the Marble Hill) and placed in three more top two-year-old races on a sound surface, Arizona Blaze’s sire won the Cornwallis as a three-year-old and his dam’s sire, Equiano, progressed to win the King’s Stand in his second season.
Arizona Blaze has already proved he’s trained on. After scoring at Dundalk, he went down only a length from the front to Breeders Cup Juvenile mile winner, Henri Matisse, on that one’s 2025 debut at Leopardstown (7f).
They had appeared on the same card in November when Arizona Blaze was second (had to come from behind) in the Breeders Cup Juvenile Sprint.
The French form is all of a heap. Polyvega won a Listed on soft at Chantilly last month (Une Pointure behind) and Rayveka scored on the same course, same type of ground in September.
Estepona faded after a good start to his juvenile season but finished a place behind Une Pointure in a Group 2 and a place in front of Polyvega.
CALUMET LOOKS UNEXPOSED
⭕ 3.35 Pontefract The going is also good at Ponty, where this 1m 2f handicap takes the cake!
Brazilian Raphael Freire, who moved to Newmarket from Norway in June, is another trainer to get off the ground quickly this Spring.
He has figures of 14143 in April and, given a run on AW a fortnight ago, Forceful Speed was 3-4 at Pontefract when trained by George Boughey. Hooded first time today, which suggests that AW run was disappointing.
Marco Botti has had AW winners this year and the unexposed Calumet, in front of Forceful Speed at Kempton, is a winner over the trip and on the ground. BETDAQ 3.9 taken
Qitaal ran well on his reappearance but lacks scope, while Glistening Nights has a tough return – trying to leap two grades – but a feather weight. BETDAQ 29.0.
PRINCE AND ROMEO VALUE PLAYS
⭕ 4.18 Hexham: One of the more competitive races of the day on Betdaq Betting Exchange – the top of the leaderboard is so tight we might need a playoff!
The key, as always, is likely to be the ground with plenty coming into this on the back of soft ground form. It’s forecast good in Northumberland this afternoon and the field sizes have help up well considering.
I want to be against Forest Blaze despite his 2-4 course record. Both wins (and indeed his only career wins) have come with give in the ground and he is now up 5lb for his courses and distance win last month.
It’s a similar story with Les’s Legacy who is anther who loves it here but his three course wins have all come with soft in the going description.
I’ll take a low stakes chance for a WIN 20 on two at double figure odds. Romeo Brown is a multiple winner who handles good well. He was beaten two and a half lengths by Les’s Legacy over course and distance last time but could easily reverse that on the better ground and the 4lb swing.
Prince Nino needs to show more but is a good ground winner who has solid form claims if repeating his Newcastle form from January.
CAN’T BEAT HIM
⭕ 6.40 Warwick: Just the four runners here but at face value a perfect opportunity for Can’t Beat History to complete his hat-trick after a lengthy break. He won after a 203 day break last year and now needs to defy a longer 268 day absence.
There was certainly confidence in the morning trading and he is taken to see off Tiger Jet who is looking a little high in the weights,
DAQMAN’S BETS on Betdaq Betting Exchange
★ 3.15 Chantilly (nap)
BET 10pts win ARIZONA BLAZE
3.35 Pontefract (win 12)
BET 4pts win CALUMET
Win and place bet: GLISTENING NIGHTS
(Bet 1pt to win 30 and 1pt at 5.7)
4.18 Hexham (both win 20)
BET 1.3pts win ROMEO BROWN
BET 1.0pt win PRINCE NINO
6.40 Warwick (win 10)
BET 5.0pts win CAN’T BEAT HISTORY
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