DAQMAN NAPS FRENCH GUINEAS WINNER: Daqman took his current best-bets score to 19 from 27 (a 70% strike rate) when he napped Karakontie (WON 6-4) in yesterday’s French 2,000 Guineas at Longchamp.

THAT’S A FLAT-OUT 30 AGAINST PRICEWISE: Karakontie gave him a quick 30 returns already against Pricewise since the start of the Flat. It’s now 30-9 to Daqman (with 69-21 overall since his challenge to the Racing Post tipster began).

SEVEN UP! BETDAQ RACES AT DONCASTER: Today Daqman puts his Personal Touch (that’s one of his bets) to analysis of the seven-race BETDAQ-sponsored card at Doncaster.

 

2.10 Doncaster (BETDAQ The Sports Betting Exchange Fillies’ Handicap)
There’s double the number of runners on last year. Good result, BETDAQ, but that makes it doubly difficult for me to get a result!
An old opening gambit with the bigger fields is to divide the race in two, look for a touch of class among the top half of the handicap and an improver in the bottom half.
The Ducking Stool has won a class higher but on a sound surface. She was behind Sixties Queen at Yarmouth, but that form was swallowed up by Tara Tywod (8.2 on BETDAQ this morning) a week or so later on the same course. Snag is that both those races were also on top of the ground.
Improver on soft, from the lower reaches of the handicap, could be Dansili Dutch, a massive 23.0 on BETDAQ, early mouse.
The mare has already won over this CD at Doncaster, already won on soft, and could bounce back, with Josh Doyle’s claim easing her load.
But, also down in the lower half of the weights, Ballyshonagh and Missy Wells are making their handicap debuts and ‘could be anything’, as they say; while, back near the top, Bossa Nova Baby has the hood that has been so effective recently in changing the game for some of the less-keen sorts.
Then there’s Frankie Dettori’s booking for Push Me, a non-winner for two years now. Well, push me on a tricky race like this and I’ll always pick a young horse with potential from a stable in form.
Mark Walford has a remarkable strike-rate for a first-season trainer (took over from father Tim at Sheriff Hutton) with 5-17 (29%) on the Flat, and may be able to coax Missy Wells (offers of 8.0) into the winner’s enclosure.

2.40 Doncaster (BETDAQ £25 No Lose Bet Maiden Stakes)
Richard Fahey 11, Charles Hills 5, The Rest 0. That’s probably all you need to know in a race of two-year-olds mainly with trainers who don’t train two-year-old winners!
The Fahey-Hills score from their juveniles this season suggests a match between Oud Malakiy and Muhaarar. And it’s quite a match, with both well bred and both related to 2yo-debut winners
Richard Fahey won this with a debutant last year and has a far better record with juveniles first time out (Hills is a miserable 1.9%, showing a level-stakes loss of 39 points, according to Raceform).
And, since Oud Malakiy is 4.6 this morning and Muhaarar only 2.44, my first position on the race must be the Fahey filly, getting a 5lb allowance.

3.15 Doncaster (BETDAQ No Premium Charge Maiden Stakes)
Another maiden which last year produced six winning performances from the five behind the winner, Matrooh, trained by William Haggas for Hamdan Al-Maktoum.
A patron like that will keep the old Harrovian cricketer at the training crease in nice new flannels for many a summer on the turf, as he contributes to the overwhelming mass of maidens which will fill our racecards again this year.
Ehtifaal wasn’t expected to be one for long, after a smart start at Newbury, but subsequently had other things on his mind and the boyo is boyo no more, reappearing gelded today, not for him the halcyon days of stud duty.
It’s just pocket-money to Hamdan, but imagine your team spent millions on a son of Teofilo, expecting a Premier League footballer and he can’t even play ball.
I’m not going to bet a short price that Ehtifaal will redeem himself to the tune of a couple of grand today but he might. So might 13 other losers here, of which Fallen In Line appeals at 10.5 on BETDAQ this morning.
That’s if the forecast thunderstorms arrive. Pivotals love plenty of cut in the ground. And the John Gosden stable is in amazing form (13-17 in the frame).

3.50 Doncaster (BETDAQ 3% Commission Handicap)
To say that another Pivotal, Personal Touch (8.2 on BETDAQ as I write) is a CD winner on Town Moor on soft is to miss the point. That was first time back on turf at the Lincoln Handicap meeting last year and he is fresh again first time and again it’s Doncaster.
Foxtrot Romeo is favourite this morning but you can always back a horse with me when he has failed to win again in three seasons since his debut success. Foxtrot Romeo is no Victor Bravo.
Henry The Aviator could try to make all the running and Mark Johnston’s often stay out in front until they pass the line. He’ll need to get an early break on Azrur, another who likes to lead.
Corporal Maddox has done well at Donny but is seven now and has never won this high in the handicap. Life Partner and Equity Risk are also giving weight away but, like Henry The Aviator, are having their first runs gelded.
That personal touch could transform them but I’ll stick with the eponymous bottomweight, a sporting nap on a difficult card.

4.25 Doncaster (Cash Out On The BETDAQ + APP Handicap)
The defection of Token Of Love has robbed the race of its each-way attraction, and you need all three places, even with eight runners, in these trappy three-year-old handicaps, some of the runners so lightly raced.
Gilbey’s Mate showed potential when staying on well at Nottingham but, if the rains come in any quantity, Tanqeya is the bet.
Tanqeya got a good word from racereaders when he won at Lingfield last backend. His sire, Intense Focus, has a huge record with his progeny on soft ground (up to 20% strike rate). And the dam? She’s by Pivotal.

5.00 Doncaster (BETDAQ Supporting The Injured Jockeys’ Fund Handicap Division 1)
You system slaves to handicap debutants need to check this race for yourselves; there are several here missing from the Racing Post list.
It’s a pinstickers’ race but I nipped in smartly to lay Mariners Moon at 1.97 in the BETDAQ green (1.83 the win), assuming the rains come.
Mariners Moon has won only once – on good to firm – and the Stewards were told at Newcastle in April, when he was beaten favourite, 9th of 10 on soft, that he was unsuited by the ground.

5.35 Doncaster (BETDAQ Supporting The Injured Jockeys’ Fund Handicap Division 2)
They’ve also gone overboard for one in this, Derbyshire, yet another gelded since last run. I’ll have a pound on Please Let Me Go and assume that the eye-shields work, as Julie Camacho tries to follow up last year’s 40-1 win. But the filly will start less than a quarter of that.

DAQMAN’S BETS
BET 2.8pts win on each MISSY WELLS and TARO TYWOD (2.10 Doncaster)
BET 5.5pts win OUD MALAKIY (2.40 Doncaster)
BET 2pts win and place FALLEN IN LINE (3.15 Doncaster)
BET 2.7pts win PERSONAL TOUCH (3.50 Doncaster)
BET 8pts win (nap) TANQEYA and 3.75pts win (stakes saver) GILBEY’S MATE (4.25 Doncaster)
LAY 10pts MARINERS MOON (5.00 Doncaster)
BET 2pts win and place PLEASE LET ME GO (5.35 Doncaster)