DAQMAN NAP WINS IN ANOTHER BIG-RACE ONE-TWO: Red-hot Daqman delivered the old one-two in both weekend feature races, napping yesterday’s English heroine in France, a winner at 19-10:
ONE-TWO: King George Saturday: 1 Novellist (WON 13-2), 2 Trading Leather (2nd 9-2). Lay, the favourite.
ONE-TWO: Deauville Group 1 Sunday: 1 Elusive Kate (nap WON 19-10), 2 Duntle (2nd 7-1).
FAIR DEAL! HE LANDS 21.0 DOUBLE-YOUR-MONEY BETDAQ VALUE: Meanwhile, back at Ascot, scene of the Novellist King George triumph, Daqman tipped Barnet Fair (WON 10-1) at 21.0 on BETDAQ for the final-race-of-the-day sprint.
29 SUCCESSFUL BETS IN SIX DAYS: With three Daq Multiples doubles and a treble up, he had seven winning bets yesterday, bringing his total to 29 in six days, with a tally of Tuesday 4, Wednesday 4, Thursday 7, Friday 4, Saturday 3, Sunday 7. That takes his score to 46 in 15 days’ racing.
TODAY: They’re strangely quiet about Novellist. What’s Daqman’s verdict on the King George. TOMORROW: Don’t miss Daqman and the promise of more sensational double-your-money BETDAQ offers for Glorious Goodwood.
Best I’ve seen since Dancing Brave. You can have your Frankels and your Black Caviars, freaks but limited, keeping to their comfort zones for uniform good days at the office. Novellist is the ultimate racehorse.
I tipped him for the Arc five months before the race. I tipped him for the King George five days before the race. But I don’t believe Novellist is a five-day, or a five-month, wonder. He is one that – barring injury – can sweep the board with the major European prizes right through 2014.
I can remember Nijinsky. I won a fortune off Troy at Epsom. I was there when, cringingly, Dancing Brave came too late to win his rightful Derby. Sea The Stars was good. Sea Bird was sensational.
But, in my view, Novellist destroyed the King George field yesterday in the manner of a Ribot, five lengths winner of the same race in 1956.
It’s not the distance. Not what he beat (the best British Isles three-year-old, Irish Derby winner Trading Leather, and the vastly experienced French champion who was favourite, Cirrus Des Aigles).
They will knock the three-year-olds. They will say ‘Cirrus’ was under a cloud, past his best (now they tell us!).. and that the third horse home was inexperienced. Blah-di.
No, it was the manner of Novellist’s victory. In record time. Off a lightning fast, lung-bursting pace. On ground unknown to him on a racecourse. After all the travelling and the Ascot parade. Under his fourth jockey.. well, shall I go on!
We thought Danedream was good but Germany has now brought into the annals – from the wreck of a desperately poor home industry, almost shut down – a colt of immense talent.
Unlike Dancing Brave or Troy, both saved up from a long way back, Novellist did it from near the front in the manner of Nijinsky – cruising just off the suicidal pace – settled but poised to strike, creeping up to the breakneck speed and then doing the nigh impossible, the very thing that makes a horse great, only more so.
He quickened off it to take the lead. Then he quickened again. Away. Gone. Then he tore Murtagh’s arms out, not wanting to pull up. Like ‘so where is this race, you mugs? I’ve only just started!’
It is by the by that this was Johnny Murtagh, the best big-race rider since Mick Kinane. I won’t say anyone would have won on him, and it was great to see Murtagh where he belongs, in pole position.
But this horse had all the nerve, the concentration, the surging power and the reserve that leaves a jockey with the perfect steering job. ‘He’s up there with the greats,’ a smiling Murtagh confirmed.
I’m not a man who needs a champion. I enjoy racing. I prefer winners to losers. I like to see a good horse. But those I have mentioned in the same breath as Novellist can run that thrill chill down the spine of any sports lover for years to come. Here is a star worthy of the name.
The huge bank of feature writers and pundits on the trade paper have been strangely quiet about this horse. So I’m claiming him as my own. Again.
DAQMAN’S BETS
BET 2.8pts win HOT REPLY (2.15 Wolverhampton)
BET 7.5pts win PURE MISCHIEF (3.15 Wolverhampton)
BET 5pts win BALDUCCI and 2.5pts win STEER BY THE STARS (4.30 Ayr)
BANKER 20pts win (nap) ROSIE PROBERT (5.50 Uttoxeter)
BET 7.5pts win BOLD SPIRIT (6.00 Windsor)
BET 1.6pts win CRY FOR THE MOON (6.45 Galway)
BET 9pts win QUEL BALLISTIC (7.20 Uttoxeter)
BET 4pts win IRISH BULLETIN (7.45 Galway)
DAQ MULTIPLES 5 x 1pt win doubles and 2 x 1pt win trebles Balducci and Steer By The Stars (4.30 Ayr) with Rosie Probert (5.50 Uttoxeter) and Quel Ballistic (7.20 Uttoxeter)
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