50-1 HIT FOR THE KING OF THE TIPSTERS: Daqman stamped his amazing tipping ability on the Ascot King George card, with four winners in a row yesterday, including a 50-1 winner (64.0 on BETDAQ) and culminating in a gold banker on his horse of the year, Enable. His profit yesterday was 96 points from:
WON 50-1 STAMP HILL (from 64.0 on BETDAQ)
WON 8-1 D’BAI (Pealer neck 2nd 7-1)
WON 2-1 NYALETI
WON 5-4 ENABLE (gold banker nap)
57 WINS TO JUST 10 FOR PRICEWISE: The day saw him slam Pricewise of the Racing Post 3-0 in their value challenge, so that the scores are now 57-10 to Daqman, with a gap of 245 points between them. Pricewise ducked the Stamp Hill race or it would have been close on 300. Here are Daqman’s headlines of yesterday which read as if they are today’s news. They are!
King George: DETTORI’S RIDE OF THE CENTURY
Intenational: 64.0 BUT HAS SOFT–GROUND STAMP
DAQMAN CROWNED ENABLE LAST WEEK!
Extract from last week’s ratings. Here’s how Daqman made Enable belle of all, though she was only fifth-top in the Racing Post. Daqman’s had faith in her all year, since tipping her at 25-1 (BETDAQ offers) for the Epsom Oaks well before the race.
Then last Tuesday he placed another advance wager, this time on Enable for the King George, with the words: The King George will Enable us another banker pay-day. He stepped that up to gold banker on the day.
The top 10 rated are here completed by their entries from the King George up to Arc day on October 1, when Enable could be going for a six-timer!
120 ENABLE (Racing Post 121) Yorkshire Oaks, August 24; Arc De Triomphe, October 1
118 BARNEY ROY (124) Juddmonte International, August 23
118 RIBCHESTER (125) Sussex Stakes, August 2
118 ULYSSES (124) Juddmonte International, August 23
116 CAPRI (119) Curragh Irish St Leger Trial, August 19, or Great Voltigeur, August 23
116 HIGHLAND REEL (123) no new date announced.
115 BIG ORANGE (119) Goodwood Cup, August 1
115 ORDER OF ST GEORGE (119) Irish St Leger, September 10
115 WINTER (119) Nassau Stakes, August 3
115 CRACKSMAN (119) Great Voltigeur, August 23
A ROLY POLY DOUBLE AT DEAUVILLE
2.55 Deauville (Prix Rothschild) All eyes on the fillies and mares again today. There’s no Enable among them. They are nearly horses as far as her class is concerned.
But Qemah, winner of this last year, has also taken the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot (2016), so twice a Group-1 winner, and Usherette, third to Qemah by only a length in the Group-2 Duke Of Cambridge Stakes at Ascot this year, had won that race in 2016.
Usherette had to be switched when making her run that day and the ground was lightning fast.
The French surface will be kinder this afternoon, as ever, but no easier than ‘good’ as a warm spell is expected to last another week, if you fancy walking the planks at Trouville.
The Enable stable is represented by Persuasive but she has been absent 323 days, since finishing a place in front of Qemah at Leopardstown, and she is probably there hoping for a bit more ‘ease’, as she has done best on good to soft and yielding ground.
Siyoushake’s success has come at Group-3 level. Ditto Realtra. So both require a big leap – two Group steps, in fact – at the age of five. Most unlikely.
There seems precious little between Qemah and Usherette, though Usherette is also a five-year-old now, and the worry about Qemah is that she has a new jockey and takes some knowing, so I’m turning to Enable’s generation.
Though Roly Poly’s win in the Falmouth at Royal Ascot wasn’t over a strong Group 1, she has the drying ground at Deauville to suit her today and she had closed down Winter between their one-two finishes in the Irish 1,000 and the Coronation Stakes, so that those races plus the Falmouth read like steady improvement.
Three fillies in seven years have completed the Falmouth and Prix Rothschild double. The BETDAQ 6.8 Roly Poly provides a place bet as a stakes saver.
KALAGIA HAS THE CLASS TO SCORE
2.00 Pontefract Third, fourth and fifth when Sosian was runner-up at York have all been beaten since, and the winner has had to drop to class 5 to score again.
So I’m hoping for further improvement from Mark Johnston’s front-running Hamilton winner, Kalagia. Sister to last season’s Norfolk winner, so potentially has a touch of class to carry the penalty.
3.30 Pontefract The eight–year-olds Custom Cut (winner of this in 2014) and Gabrial clash for the third time in a year, with the score 3-0 to Gabrial including in his narrow defeat for the Diomed in the Spring. Tashweeq was also behind Gabrial in a Group 2, the Sandown Mile, and may be better covered up in a big field.
4.30 Pontefract Sharja Bridge was beaten into third on an easy surface at Haydock by two winners since, and can continue the banker sequence.
DAQMAN’S BETS
BET 10pts (to win 20) KALAGIA (2.00 Pontefract)
BULL’S-EYE BET (win 50): 8.6pts win and place ROLY POLY (2.55 Deauville)
BET 12pts (to win 20) GABRIAL (3.30 Pontefract)
BANKER: BET 20pts win (nap) SHARJA BRIDGE (4.30 Pontefract)
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