ANOTHER 9-2 AND ANOTHER DAQMAN BIG-RACE WINNER: After winners at 4-1 (nap) and 9-2 on Friday, Daqman yesterday argued for Somersby (WON 9-2) in the big race of the day at Ascot, and finished the day in profit yet again.
Light at the end of the tunnel? It’s a tricky day but I like to see a Charlie Longsdon first timer in a handicap, and there is one at Market Rasen.
Be My Light (3.35) is a most consistent Oscar mare, and doesn’t seem to have anything to fear from the four-years-older pair, Daldini and French Ties.
Alora Money has been absent since we trusted banks, Seigneur Des Bois doesn’t like racing right-handed and Tafika is hard to win with.
That leaves the shape of the race as O Crotaigh trying to make all (but with a 12lb rise to stop him) and Be My Light gaining round the top bend and delivering his challenge in the straight.
The required negotiation of those right-hand turns, one uphill, has me looking for course specialists, and interesting that Peter Bowen has traveled Book’Em Danno up from Pembroke, choosing the handicap (2.30).
I imagine he was avoiding the task of giving a stone and more to the field in the opening novice hurdle, but it means that a three-times course winner is making his handicap debut straight into class 3 and upped half a mile.
No wonder he’s 14.0 but it’s a wide-open contest and his dam is described by Raceform as ‘having abundant stamina’ and his sire, Moscow Society, got a Grand National placed horse.
‘Danno’ could make an irony of the Henderson horse’s name, Thanks For Coming, but I’m bound to back that one, too, since the trainer wins one in three here and, most significantly, the gelding is two out of three going right-handed.
Dineur, Jukebox Melody, Book’Em Danno and Thanks For Coming, who have all gone with the pace, have two big question-marks: will they settle; will they stay?
The market wants Frontier Dancer, and his ability at the trip and in the class makes him a sensible, but most likely too obvious, bet. Market Rasen’s foibles of uphill and down dale, and that notoriously deceptive run-in, don’t make for ‘sensible.’
They’ve hit on another first-time handicapper in the conditionals hurdle (2.00): Heavenstown, forecast 12-1, was in to 5.3 and closing on the favourite, Ballintubber Cross, when I checked the market at 10.30.
Talking about uphill, Towcester’s finishing ‘ramp’ should suit Bygones Sovereign, dropping back in trip to try to recoup his £31,000 purchase price following a bumper win. I can see him making all.
‘Bygones’ is getting 7lb from Financial Climate and the Henderson – Native Beauty – is not wanted, a dog on a raft this morning, out to 7.0.
DAQMAN’S BETS
BANKER: BET 20pts win BYGONES SOVEREIGN (1.10 Towcester)
BET4.6pts win HEAVENSTOWN (2.00 Market Rasen)
BET 3.3pts win THANKS FOR COMING, and 1.5pts win and place BOOK’EM DANNO (2.30 Market Rasen)
BET 7.4pts win O CROTAIGH and 4pts win BE MY LIGHT (3.35 Market Rasen)
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