BELIEVE IT! 6-1 DAQMAN CLASSIC: Daqman’s done it again! Following a double of gambled-on horses, his nap and a 9-2 shot, on Saturday, he scored in two more big races at even better odds yesterday, the French 2,000 Guineas and the Leopardstown 1,000 Guineas trial:
WON 6-1 Make Believe
WON 13-2 Kissed By Angels
HE NOW LEADS PRICEWISE 26-5: It gave him yet another value verdict over Pricewise of the Racing Post. On 26-5, Daqman has more than five times as many returns as his trade-paper rival this Flat season in the same races. Look out for their clash at York’s Dante meeting this week.
HEADING FOR BIG-RACE WINNERS: Followers of Daqman’s headlines are chalking up the big winners. In just four days:
WON 7-4: HANS UP! HOLBEIN CAN STEAL THE VASE (Chester)
WON 9-4: COLLABORATION JUST KEEPS ON IMPROVING (Chester)
WON 13-8: PENHILL IS NAPPED FOR CAN’T-LOSE CUMANI (Ascot)
WON 6-1: BELIEVE IN FABRE AND THE LONGCHAMP DRAW (Longchamp)
WON 13-2: ANGELS HAVE GIVEN US BALLYDOYLE VALUE (Leopardstown)
EIGHT BETDAQ RACES AT DONCASTER TODAY: Now check through the eight races with Daqman on the BETDAQ-sponsored card at Doncaster today.
MAGIC START TO EIGHT-RACE BETDAQ CARD
2.10 Doncaster (Free Trading Software Available On Betdaq.Com Handicap) Read the racehead and learn. Read the form and learn very little. You need the Magic Circle to divine the winner.
Was that a tip? Magic Circle, by a Guineas winner out of the daughter of an Irish Oaks winner could well improve on his maidens of last year, now gelded, now handicapping.
Stormin Tom is up 11lb, so up a grade, with the added burden of the quirk that saw him almost swerve away his Nottingham win (Our Kylie well beaten off).
Hughie Morrison has had seven winners in May and Major Mac cannot be discounted but is one of several beginning to look exposed. I took 7.6 Magic Circle and 5.3 Stormin Tom.
2.40 Doncaster (Betdaq £20 free Bet & 3% Comm Fillies’ Handicap) Four-year-olds win this, and they are strongly represented here, notably by Arsenale, which sounds like a new brew created by a Premier League manager you know.
In fact, Arsenale has that iffy taste for punters: will she translate her Southwell sand success to turf. Dropped back to this 1m 2f, maybe. She was visibly going flat, with no fizz left, at the end of that Southwell success over 1m 4f.
Watch the market concerning Harmonic Lady, a winner first time last year. I say watch the market, because all Mel Brittain’s runners in May have started at long odds, bar one. Made favourite. Won.
Similarly – no, identically – runners sent out by James Eustace (Nimble Kimble here) in the last fortnight have started long odds, bar one. Made favourite. Won.
John Berry has an unusual record. He is going for the hat-trick today after two wins on turf on consecutive days in April. Grand Liaison was one of them, at Wolverhampton.
It was a return to form for the Sir Percy mare, herself a hat-trick winner in 2012 on turf ground from firm to heavy.
It’s a cracking contest, this. I might not yet have mentioned the winner. Carlisle scorer in today’s conditions, Mendelita was tried in class 4, then class 2 after that, as if Richard Fahey thought she might do well.
Lady Cecil hasn’t had a turf winner yet but it can’t be far away – she was scoring at a 20% strike rate on AW – and Synaesthesia is hooded first time.
Heavenly River showed marked improvement on Lincoln Day here at Doncaster, third to one that’s followed up in better class since. I took 4.8 Arsenale and 6.2 Grand Liaison.
3.15 Doncaster (Betdaq.Com Serious About Horses Maiden Stakes, Div 1) The usual suspects – Gosden, Noseda, Channon and Lanigan – are all capable of winning with maidens. But which yard is in form?
Gosden’s bagged three maidens in the last fortnight, Clive Cox and David Simcock one each, and Gosden’s Alkawn (holds Sweet Dancer) has probably done enough to deserve this.
I shall take a chance with Keystroke, related on the dam’s side to the high-class miler Cesare, and by soft-ground sire Pivotal. Trainer Jeremy Noseda has a huge 42% strike-rate with three-year-olds this year.
3.50 Doncaster (Betdaq.Com Serious About Horses Maiden Stakes, Div 2) This second division has those same suspects plus the mighty Sir Michael Stoute. Mustaaqeem is his only runner up at Donny today, with Paul Hanagan riding for Hamdan.
Mustaaqeem comes from the Wood Ditton, a race that used to throw up a treasure chest of winners every year. It’s so far managed a winner, two seconds and a fourth from six subsequent starters.
There’s another Noseda three-year-old, Depth Charge, but he tailed off at the Craven meeting, and Gosden’s Druids Ridge, who finished in front of a next-time winner at Newbury, looks a bigger danger.
BULLISH ABOUT ‘TORUS’ BACK AT DONCASTER
4.25 Doncaster (Betdaq.Com 50% Comm Back First 3 Months Handicap) Another cracking contest. Something from the top half of the handicap usually wins, that bit of class carrying the weight.
They were coming up the middle in arrow formation at the Lincoln meeting, so a middle draw may be best.
You certainly need an edge to split Farlow, Shared Equity and Jamaican Bolt, who come out all of a heap, exposed to the handicapper in races at Doncaster and Newcastle this term, not to mention a welter of form covering other horses with a long history.
I think CD-winner King Torus will be ready now after two reappearance runs (he was shuffled back here in the Spring Mile) and George Cinq could reach the frame again, thanks to Louis Steward’s claim.
5.00 Doncaster (Cash out On The Betdaq+ App Handicap) After the difficulty of dividing Mustaqeem and Druids Ridge (3.50), you have the same problem with Mulaaseq and Master Of Irony.
How to get an edge and decide between them, while keeping a wary eye on Critical Risk. This time the similarity is with Magic Circle (2.10); three runs and first time in a handicap off a handy mark.
Critical Risk is a Pivotal; he’s been gelded; and his trainer, Brian Meehan, is in form.
Paul Hanagan gave Mulaaseq a big word (‘lovely horse; improve a lot’’) after Doncaster in March; and Master Of Irony’s rider said after the Makfi colt’s winning debut: ‘quite babyish; big improvement to come.’
That one word, ‘ Makfi’, sways my judgement here; he sired my 6-1 French Guineas winner, Make Believe yesterday and is making quite a name for himself.
5.30 Doncaster (Betdaq.Com £200 Games Bonus Handicap, Div 1) This race was also split last year and the divisions produced winners at 12-1 and 50-1. Not entirely unexpected, because the previous year the winner’s SP was 40-1.
When Normandy Knight tried that three-maidens-and-hit in a first-time handicap, his trainer, Richard Fahey, not normally one to describe his geese as swans, aimed for a class-3 nursery. The Acclamation gelding plummets two grades here to a class 5.
6.05 Doncaster (Betdaq.Com £200 Games Bonus Handicap, Div 2) This is not a getting-out race; it’s a getting-deeper-into-trouble race.
So, let’s hope we’ve been doing well enough already not to have to choose between a bevy of handicap debutants here: Baron Spikey, Character Onesie, Dear Bruin, George Bailey, Mallymkun and Structured Note. One for the pin.
DAQMAN BETS (staked for strength 1 to 9; banker is 10)
BET 4pts win STORMIN TOM, 3pts win MAGIC CIRCLE (2.10 Doncaster)
BET 5pts win ARSENALE and 4pts win GRAND LIAISON 92.40 Doncaster)
BET 3pts win KEYSTROKE (3.15 Doncaster)
BET 9pts win (nap) MUSTAAQEEM (3.50 Doncaster)
BET 5pts win KING TORUS, and 2pts win, 5pts place GEORGE CINQ (4.25 Doncaster)
BET 6pts win MASTER OF IRONY (5.00 Doncaster)
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