DAQMAN 50 UP OVER PRICEWISE: Though it wasn’t a good day at the officer overall, Daqman joined the Tony McCoy celebrations yesterday. As A P broke the winners record on It’s A Gimme (WON 2-1), Daqman reached 50 winning bets since the start of the Flat in his battle with Racing Post rival, Pricewise. The score is now 50-18.
NOW HE GOES FOR BANKER NUMBER 18: With his bankers striking at 74% (17 winners out of 23 bets in the current series), Daqman today relies on a top Ballydoyle two-year-old at the Curragh. He also analyses another top two-year-old test, the Prix Robert Papin, at Maisons.
CASPIAN FOR ROCKINGHAM PLACE
1.30 Maisons-Laffitte (Prix Robert Papin) Dual 1,000 Guineas winner Special Duty (2009) and Natagora (2007), who won the Newmarket version, both went on from this to take the Cheveley Park in the autumn of their juvenile careers.
The only filly in this today is a daughter of Special Duty, from the same yard of Criquette Head-Maarek, a grey called South Bank.
She made her debut less than a month ago and is in the ‘could be anything’ category against two strong colts, Goken and the Curragh Railway Stakes winner, Kool Kompany.
The snag for betting purposes is that none of these has run on soft surfaces. The usual attitude to adopt is that the speed merchants – in this case the colts – might run themselves (literally) into the ground and leave it for the filly to pick them off: 5.7 South Bank on BETDAQ.
2.15 The Curragh Tapestry, within a neck of cracking the Irish Oaks puzzle for me yesterday, won this race last year for Aidan O’Brien, who also scored with Misty For Me in 2010.
His Oasis Dream colt, Toogoodtobetrue, related to just about everything – Galileo, Sea The Stars, Giants Causeway – has more blue blood than most in this and could be another embryonic Ballydoyle star.
2.40 Maisons-Laffitte (Prix Eugene Adam) Despite the small field, this is a cracking contest, if tactical, as the French Derby runner-up, Shamkiyr, meets the Epsom Derby sixth, Western Hymn, with the progressive Master Carpenter out to avenge his Sandown Classic Trial defeat by Western Hymn in the Spring.
It was thought that the soft ground was against him at Sandown but the son of star sire Mastercraftsman has since taken Listed and Group-3 races with plenty of cut.
Shamkiyr’s Prix Du Jockey Club second to The Grey Gatsby was boosted by the third, Prince Of Gibraltar, narrowly denied in the Grand Prix de Paris, though Gatsby, himself, found it a trip too far. Overall, Western Hymn is worth a last-chance-saloon wager.
4.10 Redcar The best that Redcar can offer is a class-4 sprint and, with rain on top of firmish surface; anything could happen.
Granted a downpour for a son of Pivotal – he’s been ducking the firm ground – Duke Cosimo, a back-to-back winner for Sir Michael Stoute last season, could now go on for his new yard from his Spring success at Doncaster: 6.0 on BETDAQ, as I write.
No stall higher than gate 7 has won this, and I shall invest another pound in the low-drawn, where Polski Max looks ready for a return to form, having plummeted down the handicap: I took 11.0
4.45 The Curragh (Rockingham Handicap) With 100,000-euro in the swim, this has always been a lure to trainers and punters alike, fishing for a decent return.
But the bookies, ever avaricious on the Irish circuit, surpassed themselves for greed last season, when this race returned a 148% Total SP. It’s not just advisable, it’s essential, you bet with BETDAQ, if you want value for money.
Rockingham winners in the last two seasons are back for more: Bubbly Bellini won on this Curragh course again soon after taking this race in 2012 but has never recovered from the resultant handicap hike. In fact, he’s made things worse with one or two near misses and is perched on 99.
Whozthecat scored last year off 95, with Luke Leadbitter claiming 10lb. He has to race off a higher mark here with the claim reduced so, all in all, he’s up 6lb., handicapped to just about dead-heat now (on that form) with the third one home, recent winner Yulong Baoju, carrying a penalty but visored for the first time today instead of wearing cheekpieces.
Also visored now is My Good Brother who has the potential for pace among the high numbers in the draw but, pressured by Calm Bay (in one) from the low stalls, Caspian Prince (gate 3) could make all the running for a successful English raid.
He won in very fast time at Epsom in a better race. Only soft ground has dented his recent CV and he’s had the stamina to win up to a mile in the past. Tasty at 11.5 the win on BETDAQ, as I write. I also took 3.15 a place.
DAQMAN’S BETS (win bets staked to win 20; place bets to win 10)
BET 4pts win SOUTH BANK (1.30 Maisons-Laffitte)
BANKER: BET 20pts win (nap) TOOGOODTOBETRUE (2.15 The Curragh)
BET 8pts win WESTERN HYMN (2.40 Maisons-Laffitte)
BET 4pts win DUKE COSIMO and 2pts win POLSKI MAX (4.10 Redcar)
BET 2pts win and 5pts place CASPIAN PRINCE (4.45 The Curragh)
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