DAQMAN LORDS IT OVER THEM: Daqman, who beat Pricewise 3-0 on Saturday, also landed a hat-trick of major weekend races when, following Night Of Thunder (WON 11-4) and a gold banker on Telescope (WON 8-13) on Saturday, he tipped Milord Thomas (WON 2-1) in the Grand Prix De Paris at Auteuil yesterday.
HERE’S A DERBY DARK HORSE: Today Daqman finds a Derby dark horse and checks out the three turf Flat meetings at Redcar this afternoon, Leicester and Windsor tonight?
GOOD FRIDAY FOR GOOLPHIN? IT’S ABOUT TIMES!
It’s the best of times and the worst of times. The war between backer and layer has been largely biased to the layer because of the uncertainty about three-year-old form.
We now seem to have a much clearer picture, and the boot – and spurs – are now on the other foot. Who dare lay Gleneagles for Saturday’s Irish 2,000 Guineas or Golden Horn for the Derby?
But there is still room for a dark horse. Maybe the Cocked Hat Stakes at Goodwood on Friday has hidden ammunition for Epsom, though it hasn’t produced a Derby winner since Troy in 1979, when it was known as the Predominate Stakes.
The colt in question is 33-1 and 25-1 with most bookmakers, but a significant 20-1 with the shrewdest firm of them all, Ladbrokes. BETDAQ offers around the 30.0 mark this morning were, as ever,
better than average.
Best of Times is a Dubawi, the Irish Guineas winner, who, as well as producing champion-miler Night Of Thunder, has got the King Edward (Ascot Derby) and Dubai World Cup winner, Monterosso, and the superb sequence horse, Al Kazeem (Eclipse). Best of Times’ dam is half-sister to a St Leger winner.
Owners Godolphin have not won a major turf race since Farhh took the Champion Stakes in the autumn of 2013, and Best Of Times is a stone behind Golden Horn in the ratings.
But we’ve seen this Spring how a single race can shoot a colt to stardom and Best Of Times is clearly on the upgrade. It’s not beyond the bounds of possibility that he could knock the Derby field into a cocked hat!
Trainer Saeed Bin Suroor, currently boasting stable form of three winners from six, said ‘Best of Times isn’t really fit yet,’ after the colt completed a hat-trick by winning a Newmarket Listed early this month.
He explained in an interview with the trade paper: ‘He’s a big, strong horse who has needed time, but is one of our main hopes for the season.’ Like a lot of Dubawi progeny, and as such a big horse, he doesn’t want firm ground.
PACIFY IS ASCOT HOPE OF CHARLES AND CAMILLA
2.20 Redcar Mon Beau Visage (9.2 on BETDAQ early mouse) is the apple of David O’Meara’s eye among his two-year-olds, and he knows all about the favourite, Risk Adjusted, since his First Bombardment ran it to half a length at Ripon, giving away weight.
6.45 Leicester Sea The Skies, a Sea The Stars colt, a nice two-year-old with Gerard Butler, would easily beat the class-5 winner, Go Sakhee, if he is ready to show his old form for Mark Johnston.
The BETDAQ market this morning says he is.
7.05 Windsor Clive Cox, master trainer of sprinters, has a very smart juvenile in Soapy Aitken, for whom money flew in this morning so that he has already turfed the paper odds-on shot Silver Wings out of the favourite’s seat.
7.45 Leicester The market also speaks for Pacify (owned by Charles and Camilla). My man in the long grass has sent me a ‘black spider’ letter, telling me to keep on the right side.
Charles and Camilla specifically want a Royal Ascot runner, and Pacify had better get a move on if he is to justify talk of the Britannia.
DAQMAN’S BETS (stakes 1 to 9 for strength of selection, except banker, which is charged to the account at SP)
BET 2pts win and place MON BEAU VISAGE (2.20 Redcar)
BET 6pts win SEA THE SKIES (6.45 Leicester)
BANKER: 20pts win (nap) SOAPY AITKEN (7.05 Windsor)
BET 6pts win PACIFY (7.45 Leicester)
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