TODAY: Daqman takes the riverboat ride to the Royal Windsor evening meeting and his nap is at another night meeting, Leicester. He also has a 24.0 wild card at Redcar.
TOMORROW: Look out for his ABC Guide to the Irish 2,000 Guineas. Where does the winner come from? What breeding test should be made? How experienced should the colt be?
COMMAND CALL FOR GUINEAS AND ASCOT DOUBLE
Ballydoyle is eyeing a £1m-plus shelf of Royal Ascot pots, after Leading Light gave weight and a beating to two potential Gold Cup rivals at Navan yesterday.
Only on Saturday, Aidan O’Brien set up a Queen Anne match race when Verrazano, third in the Lockinge, looked very much in line for revenge over the winner, Olympic Glory.
Magician in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes and Ruler Of The World in the Coronation Cup have easier tasks but ‘the one they want’ is the St James Palace Stakes for War Command.
First there is the little matter of reversing a long four-lengths defeat by Kingman when they renew their Newmarket 2,000 Guineas rivalry in the Irish version at The Curragh on Saturday, for which War Command is now named as Ballydoyle number-one.
Shifting Power, stablemate of the Newmarket winner, Night Of Thunder, is expected to be supplemented for The Curragh today, rather than wait for the French Derby on June 1. But The Curragh will probably as soft as Chantilly after heavy rain.
* Tomorrow: ABC Guide to the Irish 2,000 Guineas.
TRAMP GATECRASHES WINDSOR PARTY
Maiden fillies and juveniles. And that’s just the hooray Emmas and Henrys in the riverboat parties making their way down the Thames tonight. Yes, the Windsor evening high-jinks are on again.
Spring has sprung upon us claimers, novices and maiden fillies, mostly misbehaving juveniles – and I am talking about the racing now – so how on earth can you win money?
For claimers (6.05), the edge is the ratings and this evening they put you on Scruffy Tramp, officially off 82 to Noverre To Go’s 79.
But Scruffy is a second-season animal who hasn’t won since he started out (always a bad sign) and has gone 10 straight defeats though, at least, this is his first drop into claiming company.
The juvenile fillies? Very little form to go on but, of course, if in doubt, back Team Hannon, which has a 33% strike-rate with two-year-olds this year. Sure enough, their record in this (6.35) is 11411.
Snag is they run three, and the race is not always to the Richard Hughes choice (Paint The Star) but that’s the only way to bet. He did ride three of those four previous Hannon winners in this.
Kool Company (7.05) is another Hannon-Hughes attraction in the private-banking novice stakes. Look here you guys, you know already my betting bank is for private exchanges on BETDAQ!
More fillies (7.35) but this time Sir Michael Stoute has the bragging rights. Form figures in the race of 1141134, never out of the frame.
Bragging has a big chance, because she has had an outing and is, therefore, potentially straighter than most but there are plenty of dark horses in there.
I’d marked down 21.0 offer Cincinnati Kid to run his maidens and then win a handicap but the Dylan Thomas filly has already caught the judge’s eye and Denis Coakley’s is currently the small stable in the limelight after the Victoria Cup was one of two wins for the yard from four runners last week.
Leicester tonight is only slightly different. They go maiden, seller, maiden. But, to be fair, both Windsor and Leicester do have a couple of handicaps, and that’s where we might sneak an edge.
Busatto (7.15 Leicester) who landed me a 7-1 nap on heavy going six days ago, has different conditions on such firm ground at the Oadby track that they’ve been ‘selective watering’.
Busatto has the spoiler of another front-runner in the field, Rosaceous, though she’s won only her maiden, which is a black mark for lack of progress and, probably, temperament.
The one at a price is Ogbourne Downs (6.7 on BETDAQ), who gets his ground for the first time since landing two out of three at around this time last season.
Roger Charlton, 5-11 in five years with three-year-old handicappers at Leicester, saddles Continental Drift (7.45) in the race he won last year with Pythagorean.
Redcar this afternoon (maiden, maiden, auction maiden) has four handicaps because of splits: hard luck, sponsors!
Best race of the day is the 4.20 and, as a sprint, is likely to be the hardest. But it’s class 3, so there ought to be more consistency than in most of these northern handicaps.
Feature of the race is the number of soft-ground horses (Foxy Music, Jack Luey, Jiroft, Keep It Dark) – on all known form, that is – which is no doubt why Another Wise Kid, Stone Of Folca and Singeur went to the front of the BETDAQ market this morning.
Maybe the 2013 sequence winner – including a hat-trick on firm – Bondi Beach Boy will be fit enough to do himself justice first time. Or maybe Tennesee Wildcat (24.0) can take a leap forward in first-time blinkers. It’s all ‘maybe’ today, I’m afraid.
DAQMAN’S BETS (to win 20 points)
BET 2.5pts win BONDI BEACH BOY, and 0.8pts win and place TENNESSEE WILDCAT (4.20 Redcar)
BET 9pts win PAINT THE STAR (6.35 Windsor)
BET 3.5pts win OGBOURNE DOWNS (7.15 Leicester)
BET 1pt win and place CINCINNATI KID and 1pt win (stakes saver) BRAGGING (7.35 Windsor)
BET 6pts win (nap) CONTINENTAL DRIFT (7.45 Leicester)
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