8-1 BULL’S-EYE FOR DAQMAN THE CHAMP: The pick of Daqman’s York tips race by race yesterday finished 12232, with the one that mattered, Marhaba The Champ (WON 8-1), landing a knock-out blow with our man’s second bull’s-eye hit of the Ebor meeting.
Friday
WON 8-1 MARHABA THE CHAMP (bull’s-eye bet wins 50)
Thursday
WON 5-2 SEA THEME (nap wins 30 points)
Wednesday
WON 12-1 EQUILATERAL (bull’s-eye bet wins 50)
Tuesday
WON 5-2 CLEARANCE
WON 5-2 KARAVOMYLOS (nap)
Monday
WON 6-4 POLICE ACADEMY
WON 10-11 HARAPPAN (nap)
★ Daqman 44, Pricewise 22
★ 71 naps up in 2023
★ 19 Fortune Cookies win
DAQMAN’S EBOR X1: Today Daqman previews the Ebor Handicap with the Top Eleven form horses and bets he can name the winner at 10.5, 18.5 and 22.0 on BETDAQ.
FAST TRACK TO CALIFORNIA DREAM
What are dreams made of? Is it to win a Group 1 from a forgotten training centre? When the horse makes all the running at 28-1 under an apprentice jockey?
When it beats the champions Highfield Princess and Bradsell in one of the world’s biggest sprints and books a ticket to the Breeders Cup?
That’s Live In The Dream winning the Nunthorpe in a time more than half a second fast for Epsom trainer Adam West and rider, Sean Kirrane (23) from Leopardstown, who will try to celebrate today in the Apprentice Handicap at Redcar!
Live In The Dream runs his races fast like they do in America, so truly belongs on the Santa Anita track for the California running of the 40th World Championships on November 1 and 2. It’s no longer just a dream.
MORE TO COME FROM NOSTRUM
⭕ 1.50 York (1m 1f Group 3) Nostrum the nearly horse should get back to winning form after letting us down in the mud at Glorious Goodwood.
Third to Chaldean in the Dewhurst he reappeared with a decisive victory on top of the ground in a Newmarket Listed.
Sir Michael Stoute has won this opener before with 110 and 112 rated. Nostrum races off 114 with Ryan Moore booked.
LORDSHIP LOOKS A HAGGAS HERO
⭕ 2.25 York (Melrose Handicap 1m 6f) The Melrose, an Ebor for three-year-olds, threw up some real class in 2019 with Hamish and the following year with Coltrane.
These two were part of a shared quartet of winners in the last four years for Andrew Balding and Wlliam Haggas, who clearly get it 100% right when they prepare and target this race.
The query against The Goat for Balding today is that he had his conditions at Goodwood when he romped home into contention for this but he’s up in trip and on firmish ground now. Rain could fall then BETDAQ 17.5 will look good.
Lordship (BETDAQ 6.3) for Haggas hasn’t been out of the frame since being gelded and his five starts since read 22111, the last pair over today’s trip on firm ground, in which he soared from class 5 to class 2. He has to handle an overall climb of 20lb.
His stablemate, Alhambra Palace, is also going through the grades but his improvement has been shown with cut in the ground.
Middle Earth has won at 1m 4f but his pedigree suggests that the further he goes the more improvement there will be.
KINROSS FOR FORTUNE COOKIES
⭕ 3.0 York (City of York Stakes): FORTUNE COOKIE Kinross launched a sequence of four in a row in this race last year.
He’s off the mark already this term, pipping the French 2,000 Guines runner-up, Isaac Shelby, who is a pound worse off today.
Sacred weakened out of it last year, beaten more than six length by Kinross, but has reversed Lennox Stakes form with Sandrine and split Khaadem and Hiughfield Princess in the Jubilee, dropped back a furlong.
ANOTHER DREAM IN THE EBOR
⭕ 3.35 York (Ebor Handicap) STATS: No winners below 9st in the last 11 seasons and only one over the age of six since 1979.
TRAINERS: Team Gosden 2, Sir Michael Stoute 2, Saeed Bin Suroor 2. JOCKEYS:
Frankie Dettori 2. DRAW: stalls 12 to 21 eight out of 10.
1️⃣ REAL DREAM (22) One of those late developers of Sir Michael Stoute’s, Real Dream kept on well, third here at York in the (1m 4f) Race To The Ebor trial. The last day stepped up to the Ebor trip at Ascot and won easily from a three-time winner.
2️⃣ SCAMPI got a free pass to the Ebor after winning the 1m 4f trial here at York in May, and has always targeted the real thing today. Drawn 11 and 2lb well in on future ratings; target the Caulfield Cup.
3️⃣ YASHIN (drawn 18) won a Group 3 first try at this 1m 6f. Three wins all on good ground, failing to handle soft when down the field behind Emily Dickinson in the Curragh Cup.
SWEET WILLIAM Hat-trick this summer (from firm to heavy, 1m 4f to 2m) under Robert Havlin for Team Gosden has cost him a rise of 18lb.
His Summer Handicap win at Goodwood earned this half-brother to Hurricane Lane a penalty to get into this race in a bid to emulate the Gosden stable’s Trawlerman who doubled up in the same races last year. Drawn 3.
ADJUVANT Adjuvant, third over CD in the Melrose last year (Caius Chorister – stall 13 today – who was 2nd is now 9lb better off) and fifth in the Northumberland Plate, is himself 4lb better off with Sweet William after finishing second in that Goodwood Summer Handicap. Stall 9.
LIVE YOUR DREAM (15) Twice placed at York and 141 over 1m 6f, both wins on the July Course. Trainer does well in this and both Real Dream and Love Your Dream will attract coincidence bets after yesterday’s big race success of Live In The Dream.
ABSURDE Willie Mullins’ Vauban landed a gamble in a 1m 6f handicap at Royal Ascot with Absurde 2nd, Cemhaan 3rd and Scriptwriter 7th of the 16 runners.
Out of the first three, Flat and hurdles, only twice since his debut 13 races back in November 2020.
Mullins also saddles a one-time Group-3 winner, Jackfinbar, who was fourth in the Guinness Handicap at the Galway Festival. Absurde stall 24; Jackfinbar in 2.
HMS PRESIDENT (drawn 17) first or second in seven out of eight starts over the last year, including narrow defeats over today’s trip and one victory at Newmarket in May, when Adjuvant was beaten a neck (soft) at today’s weights.
GET SHIRTY (23) Hat-trick last summer, including in 1m 6f Royal Ascot handicap, before 5th in today’s race when 9lb higher.
Betdaq Betting Exchange 10.5 Real Dream, 18.5 Scampi, 22 Yashin
EHRAZ AND MOORE HAVE CLASS
⭕ 4.10 York (6f handicap) Low numbers have been best in sprints at York this week and last year’s result by stall of this handicap was 2-13-4-19-6-8 with centre-field runners overcoming the near side.
It was a case of 2-4-6-8, who do we appreciate? Answer: Summerghand, who is back for more after running second in the Great St Wilfrid and fourth at York in the Dash to Aberama Gold, with The Green Man third and Lethal Levi 5th.
Aberama Gold has shot up the 12lb, so that The Green Man is 5lb better off and Lethal Levi 8lb.
In the low stalls, Gale Force Maya (out of 6) has this record at York: 13113. Go higher and you find Ehraz (16, Ryan Moore), who wouldn’t mind any rain but ran 6th in the 2022 Commonwealth Cup.
BETDAQ value: 13.5 Gale Force Maya, 17.5 Ehraz
DAQMAN’S BETS
1.50 York (win 20 ★ nap)
BET 20pts win NOSTRUM
2.25 York (win 20)
BET 4pts win LORDSHIP
3.00 York (20pt bet)
FORTUNE COOKIE
KINROSS
3.35 York (win-50 bull’s-eye bets)
BET 5pts win REAL DREAM
BET 2.75pts win SCAMPI
BET 2.5pts win and place YASHIN
4.10 York (win-50 bull’s-eye bets)
BET 4pts win GALE FORCE MAYA
BET 3pts win and place EHRAZ
4.55 Goodwood (win 10)
BET 5pts win NATHANAEL GREENE
6.10 Curragh (win 12)
BET 1pt win and place RAHMI
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