7-1 WINNER IS A GENTLEMAN FOR DAQMAN: Gentleman Anshan (WON 7-1) didn’t quite save the day for Daqman on his level-returns staking system yesterday. So today he stakes so that just one winner will cover the day’s expenses.
CAN HE PUT THE NAP TO BED AT REDCAR? Daqman has already landed the French 2,000 Guineas with Style Vendome (WON 9-2). Today he goes for the German equivalent in Cologne with String Theory. His nap is Bedloe’s Island at Redcar.
I shall take a bit of String today. The theory is that the English colts are always good enough to grab a German Guineas, as Caspar Netscher did last year, and we have half the field in Cologne this afternoon.
String Theory is the least exposed and comes from a race which often throws up a host of winners. So far only two from the first four in that race, the Wood Ditton Stakes at the Newmarket Craven Meeting, have been seen again. Both winners.
After the Wood Ditton, String Theory went into my horses-to-follow list, with the following note, penned by yours truly:
Anything String Theory did over the Wood Ditton mile would be a bonus for one bred to get another half mile and by a sire, Medicean, whose progeny improve with time. Marco Botti’s son of a Black Sam Bellamy mare was green at the start and in the race itself but ran on strikingly to be only about a length down at the line.
In fact, String Theory then confirmed just how much speed he has attached to that stamina – and how much improvement there is in him – by winning a mile maiden at Kempton Park with real panache.
He came six lengths clear of his field, putting the race to bed ‘in emphatic style’ (quote unquote Racing Post.com) and in a time faster than the preceding handicap. On the up or what!
String Theory’s trainer, Marco Botti, knows just what’s needed in Cologne, as he turned out the 2011 winner of this German Guineas, Excelebration.
I would be the first to admit that, strictly on what they have done, String Theory may have a lot to find on Excelebration at this stage, since that one had run second to Frankel in the Greenham that Spring.
In fact, Excelebration would place behind Frankel four more times before his nemesis quit the racing arena, leaving him to pick up the Queen Elizabeth 11 Stakes (British Champion Mile) at Ascot in October under a new trainer, Aidan O’Brien.
But Excelebration won the Hungerford Stakes and Prix Du Moulin for Botti, and would have been champion in any other year than one in which a Frankel ruled.
Whether String Theory is as good, and whether he’ll follow a similar route, time will tell but, as I said, I saw stamina in his breeding, whereas Excelebration was by a sprinter who got two top milers. Eclipse route, in Theory? (How long is a piece of string).
Other English challengers in the Cologne Guineas today include Ayaar (Mick Channon), winner of Germany’s top juvenile race and fourth in the Free Handicap to Newmarket Guineas seventh, Garswood.
Boomshackerlacker (George Baker) was third in the Maisons Criterium on heavy as a two-year-old and needs the forecast rain. One Word More (Charles Hills) also wants some cut.
The form of his winning return was boosted by the runner-up but only in handicap company and he has to bounce back to the early days when he was second as Toronado broke his maiden (Ayaar third) and then ran up to French 2,000 Guineas winner, Style Vendome, in a Deauville Listed.
Chances of a third soft-ground horse today, Godolphin’s Tawhid, are also dependent on rain. He won the Horris Hill in the mud (Boomshackerlacker third) last backend but, on his reappearance, was more than 14 lengths behind in the firm-ground Craven Stakes won by Toronado.
The San Siro Criterium winner Law Enforcement (Richard Hannon) was exposed as only Listed level at home. Fifth in the UAE Derby, nearly five lengths behind the third, Secret Number, who finished well adrift of Libertarian in the Dante.
DAQMAN’S BETS
BET 5.5pts win (nap) BEDLOE’S ISLAND (4.10 Redcar)
BET 4.3pts win STRING THEORY (4.55 Cologne)
BET 4pts win PAT’S LEGACY (5.00 Southwell)
BET 5.7pts win ALCAEUS (5.40 Redcar)
DAQ MULTIPLES: 3pts win double GARDEN ROW (3.10 Redcar) and PLUTOCRACY (8.50 Leicester)
DAQMAN’S TARGETS: Sub-standard day. Bets to win 20 points, except Daq Multiples at SP. One winner in the singles covers all other stakes.
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