BULL’S-EYE! ANOTHER 50-POINTER: After a 50-1 winner on Saturday, Daqman landed a 50-point hit in the big race at Deauville yesterday with a bull’s-eye bet on Roly Poly (WON 16-5). It gave him three feature-race winners out of three at the weekend for an overall profit in the two days of 113 points.
WON 50-1 STAMP HILL (64.0 on BETDAQ) International
WON 5-4 ENABLE (gold banker nap) King George
WON 16-5 ROLY POLY (6.8 on BETDAQ) Prix Rothschild
NOW 249 AHEAD OF PRICEWISE: Roly Poly took his score over Pricewise of the Racing Post to 4-0 for the weekend and now 58-10 in his favour, 249 points ahead of his value-betting rival to single-unit level stakes. He’s the man who makes his own headlines:
King George: DETTORI’S RIDE OF THE CENTURY (Saturday)
Intenational: 64.0 BUT HAS SOFT–GROUND STAMP (Saturday)
Prix Rothschild: ROLY POLY DOUBLE AT DEAUVILLE (Sunday)
GET RICH AT THE GALWAY FESTIVAL
Thin distribution. Dermot Weld wasn’t kidding, when he said his horses were behind this year and he won’t be expecting the usual avalanche of winners.
He saddles just four horses on the opening day, including Distribution in the last, which is a bumper. They will try to defend a terrific tally of 23 winners overall for the stable in just five races on the day-one card.
5.20 Galway DERMOT WELD 5, WILLIE MULLINS 3. One runner each.
Weld opens with hurdles debutant Aydoun up against his old rival in this race, Willie Mullins, who saddles Nessun Dorma, one of three dual winners in a cracking contest.
When Nessun Dorma broke his maiden over hurdles in May, Paul Townend reported that he as a natural over the obstacles, ‘almost as good as a handicapper.”
By Canford Cliffs out of a Galileo mare, the gelding was an easy winner in June under Ruby Walsh but, in retrospect, had to be. The next six home behind him have all failed since.
Does that open the door to another dual winner, Twobeelucky? Never out of the frame without scoring on the Flat, hurdles have been the making of him and, though doubtful at one stage, has improved enough to take his chance here.
The third dual winner is Le Richebourg, who has romped away with an easy pair of targets at Killarney, despite worries about the ground being too firm, and now has his hoped-for easy surface.
The second and third in his maiden have been placed seven times since, two of them wins, and the one he beat on the last day had previously taken a 20-runner heat at Tipperary by 11 lengths.
So I’ll try to get rich with Le Richebourg, whose stable has had 11 winners in the last 14 days. Shading evens on BETDAQ for a double-your-money start..
6.25 Galway DERMOT WELD 8, AIDAN O’BRIEN 3. Weld has sent out 24 winners of the event but is not represented.
Joseph O’Brien’s Lope De Vega colt, Medal of Honour, was run out of it trying to make all at Gowran, then ran up against a Ballydoyle Group-3 winner on firm ground at The Curragh.
Today’s yielding surface sees him wearing a first-time tongue-tie ‘to help him with the ground’, as Joseph ‘Richebourg’ O’Brien goes for a quick double.
TONY AWARD FOR THE GRADUATE..
7.40 Galway DERMOT WELD 4, TONY MARTIN 2. Runners Weld 2, Martin 1
The big-time trainers have outsiders here, including the 10-year-old former Irish Cesarewitch winner, Digeanta, for Willie Mullins. Hidden Cyclone caps that, still capable of blowing up a storm at the age of 12, and second in the Galway Hurdle a year ago.
Ezanak, bred in the purple by Sea The Stars out of a Sinndar mare, is just the sort that Dermot Weld wins races with here, with not much form to go on and blinkered first time: 21.0 on BETDAQ early mouse.
Horses aged four or five (10 out of 12) do well from the bottom end of the handicap, where Whisky Sour is better than the bare form.
Decent enough on the Flat until toward the end of his three-year-old career, but dropped 7lb, he has since trotted up over hurdles, switched from Edward Lynam to Willie Mullins, and his weight is further relieved by a 7lb claimer. He’s 32.0 on BETDAQ.
Apart from Digeanta and Whisky Sour, Willie gives the leg up to nine-times champion amateur, son Patrick Mullins, on Lagostovegas but, though his Killarney win was at a lower level than this, he’s been hiked all of 17lb.
Also higher in the weights is last year’s winner, Swamp Fox (around 7.0), but clearly trained for the race again, and arguably improving at the age of five. He was a commanding winner over hurdles recently.
The other one I like is The Graduate for Tony Martin and Steven Clements who teamed up to win this race back to back (2013-14).
Four wins out of six for Andrew Balding as a three-year-old, he’s having his first Flat run for Martin and with cheekpieces first time. The Graduate is 25.0 and god in heaven smiles on those who pay
8.40 Galway DERMOT WELD 3. One runner, Distribution. Chess Grand Master was the forecast favourite with Joseph O’Brien in such fine form, but Boris Grischenko (Gordon Elliott) was the word this morning. Everyone Russian to back him!
DAQMAN’S BETS
5.20 Galway
BANKER: BET 20pts win (nap) LE RICHEBOURG
5.55 Galway
BET 4pts (to win 20) SUCCESSOR
7.40 Galway
BULL’S-EYE BET (to win 50): 2pts win and place THE GRADUATE
BULL’S-EYE BET (to win 50): 1.6pts win and place WHISKY SOUR
BET (to win 30): 5pts win SWAMP FOX
BET (to win 30): 1.5pts win and place EZANAK
8.40 Galway
BET 8pts (to win 20) BORIS GRISCHENKO
GALWAY DAQ MULTIPLES: 3 x 3pt win doubles and 1pt win treble Le Richebourg (5.20), Medal Of Honour (6.25) and Boris Grischenko (8.40)
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