11-2 DERBY DANCE FOR DAQMAN: A losing spell for Daqman ended yesterday, after a run of seconds, with Chance To Dance (WON 11-2 from 7.8 on BETDAQ) in the Cork Derby, his last bet of the day.
ROYAL ASCOT BULL’S-EYE BET: Now Daqman lines up Royal Ascot bankers and lays, and a bet to win 50 points every day at the big meeting, the Bull’s-Eye Value Bet on BETDAQ. Look out for the opening day tomorrow.
GOLD CUP EASY ABC GUIDE: Daqman headlined the first three in the Epsom Derby and the winner of the French Champion Hurdle the following day. Today his one-two is for an all-Irish Gold Cup finish.
NAPPING AT BETDAQ NIGHT RACES: Daqman also picks his favourite day for getting good-odds winners, which will be even bigger value on BETDAQ. His nap is among the BETDAQ-sponsored races at Windsor tonight.
OPPOSE THE FAVOURITE AT BETDAQ VALUE
Wednesday is your day of destiny. The Press is all talk today of the hot Royal Ascot favourites, some of them unbackable. But Wednesday is the day to target a big return. Take the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes for your banker, and spread your BETDAQ-value bets around these beauties:
* 2.30 Jersey Stakes Only one favourite in 10 years but very backable bunch of winners at 9-2, 6-1, 13-2, 7-1, 15-2, 8-1, 11-1, 12-1. Not hard to find, then, and sure to be much bigger on BETDAQ.
* 3.05 Queen Mary Stakes Just the one outright favourite has won yet the usual suspects in top two-year-old contests have all scored at 9-4, 4-1, 11-2, 6-1, 12-1 and 20-1 (Brittain, Channon, Dascombe, Gosden, Hannon).
* 4.25 Duke Of Cambridge Stakes Take out the favourite (only one winner again) and bet close to the front of the market at 3-1, 10-3, 4-1, 9-2, 13-2 or among top trainer potential (Stack and Gosden 11-1 and Stoute 14-1) and you have a hatful of winners.
* 5.00 Royal Hunt Cup A win-and-place BETDAQ backers dream, with success in the decade at 9-1, 11-1, 12-1, 14-1, 16-1 (twice), 25-1, 33-1. Big and bigger on BETDAQ. One winning favourite.
* 5.35 Sandringham Handicap I really good race for a punt with the usual suspects winning, always at good, but not outlandish, prices: 4-1, 9-2 (twice), 5-1 (twice), 8-1, 10-1, 11-1 (twice), 16-1. They almost back themselves on BETDAQ.
54.0 SHOCKER IN IRISH GOLD CUP ONE-TWO
ABC GUIDE TO THE GOLD CUP: Daqman presents his lucky 13 top contenders for Thursday Ascot Gold Cup. Here’s the key to his ABC guide:
A Age four to six
B Group winner
C Already won over 2m
D Sire or dam’s sire with 10.5f stamina index
E Trained in Ireland
ABCDE Leading Light
Made it a six-timer on these islands – missing out only in the Arc – when his impressive reappearance win at Navan followed last season’s sensational double of Queen’s Vase and Doncaster St Leger.
A lazy horse at home who comes to life on the racecourse but in his own time, disguising his power unless tenacity is required, as in the Queens Vase, when he was a rugged, gutsy winner. So has it all.
ABCDE Saddler’s Rock
Gold Cup third on an easy surface in 2012, following up by landing a gamble in the Goodwood Cup, but lost his way after.
Returned to close on his best form, when two lengths off Royal Diamond in the Long Distance Cup at Ascot’s big October British Champions meeting and could surprise again, albeit last of six to Leading Light at Navan in his prep for this, and 54.0 on BETDAQ this morning.
ABCD Brown Panther
King George V winner at Royal Ascot in 2011, but a nearly horse in pattern company until stepped up to win the Goodwood Cup last August.
Late maturing and red hot in May this year, winning the Henry 11 Stakes at Sandown Park (second success at 2m) and earlier the Ormonde at Chester.
ABCD Estimate
Queens Vase winner at Royal Ascot on soft in 2012, seemed to mark time until Sagaro Stakes win last May put him in line for gold.
He won the Cup despite firm ground but hasn’t been the same horse since, beaten three lengths in the British Champions Long Distance Cup and not responding to training until the late Spring this year.
ABC Ahzeemah
Second in the 2013 Dubai Gold Cup, the Goodwood Cup and the Irish St Leger.. what a nearly horse!
He’s quite a measuring rod for the handicapper – using his Goodwood defeat by Brown Panther, Lonsdale Cup win at York over Simenon – who has kept him on 111 for five of his last eight races.
ABDE Ernest Hemingway
Another benchmark for the handicapper, stuck on 115 or 116 for the best part of a year now, closely matched with Royal Diamond, whom he beat at The Curragh and Leopardstown. Tried over 2m for the first time at Meydan in March.
ACDE Eye Of The Storm
Back-to-back Listed wins last autumn put him in line for a crack at the British Long Distance Cup at Ascot when, only three-years-old, he ran a close third to Royal Diamond.
Did not start back until earlier this month after a setback and was fitted with a hood for the reappearance fourth to Missunited at Leopardstown.
ACDE Missunited
An old adversary of Eye Of The Storm – they were one-two in Listed races last autumn – he was third in the Prix Royal-Oak to Tac De Boistron. He’s seven now, and not improving.
ADE Pale Mimosa
Dermot Weld currently has a stunning near-30% record on the Irish turf this season and is, over the years, 20% when raiding England.
Pale Mimosa beat Missunited on firm ground at Leopardstown last summer and returned with third behind Leading Light and Royal Diamond at Navan in May.
BCD Altano
Italian Derby and German St Leger winner in his youth, belied his years to win October’s Prix Du Cadran (French Gold Cup) from Tac De Boistron.
BCD Tac De Boistron
After his defeat by Altano, he won the Prix Royal-Oak and bridged the close season with victory in the Sagaro Stakes at Ascot in April, then was the ‘moral’ in the Yorkshire Cup, beaten a neck, giving 4lb to the winner.
BCE Royal Diamond
Johnny Murtagh has been quiet this year but primed Royal Diamond for this with a front-running try at toppling Leading Light when they were one-two at Navan.
Eye Of The Storm (3rd), Pale Mimosa (4th), Saddler’s Rock (5th) and Estimate (7th) were all behind when he won the British Champions Long Distance Cup at Ascot (soft) in October.
CE Simenon
Won the Ascot Stakes and Queen Alexandra at the same 2012 Royal Ascot meeting but has been just short of the best since, second in last year’s Gold Cup and fourth in the Melbourne Cup. Beat en more than 38 lengths in three outings this year.
WE’LL GO JOHNNY FOR THE OAKS PARTY
7.35 Windsor (Betdaq Exchange % Multiples During World Cup)
The last two winners of this are both back to form at the right time at 7.6 and 9.4 on BETDAQ this morning.
Italian Tom (9.4) took advantage of his low mark after a losing run to score at Kempton last time but is still 12lb below the mark which won him this in 2012.
O’Gorman (7.6), successful last year off 80 under Richard Hughes, is back on the same mark and back in the frame over CD last time out.
Hughsie switches to the progressive Breccbennach and, thanks to the largesse of BETDAQ offers, we can use him as a saver to our main bets.
7.50 Nottingham (Warwickshire Oaks) Secret Gesture, last year’s Epsom Oaks runner-up, is the form filly in this Warwickshire Oaks run in Nottinghamshire but the even money doesn’t appeal.
It would require banker stakes to win 20 points to back one with her worst form on firm ground, albeit dropped from Group company.
I fancy the firm surface will help We’ll Go Walking. Johnny Murtagh’s filly is light framed and this ground could be the answer to her, with something to make up on the favourite, but well clear of the rest on the ratings, barring Moment In Time, who makes up my first three.
8.05 Windsor (£10,000,000 Risk Free On Betdaq Collossus Handicap)
CD-winner Magique has had a stroke of luck, getting the easy ground that she needs here, despite the time of year and firmish surfaces elsewhere.
But I prefer Pleasure Bent, blinkered first time for the back-to-form Luca Cumani, whereas Jeremy Noseda (Magique) and Gary Moore (Good Luck Charm) are going through a lean spell.
8.35 Windsor Betdaq 0% On World Cup Correct Scores Maiden Stakes)
Who wants to win the maiden; who wants to save his horse for a handicap mark? That’s the problem with this contest, and many others like it.
I think Charlie Appleby has such a nice beast for Godolphin here in Bathrat Amal – and has booked Richard Hughes – that a bit of 8.2 on BETDAQ this morning is worth taking.
This New Approach filly out of a Cape Cross mare ‘could be anything’. Get your mouse some cheese for Ascot.
DAQMAN’S BETS
BET 3pts win O’GORMAN, 2.3pts win ITALIAN TOM and 2.75pts win (stakes saver) BRECCBENNACH (7.35 Windsor)
BET 4pts win on each WE’LL GO WALKING and (stakes saver) SECRET GESTURE (7.50 Nottingham)
BET 4.3pts win (nap) PLEASURE BENT (8.05 Windsor)
BET 2.7pts win BATHRAT AMAL (8.35 Windsor)
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