DAQMAN GOLD STRIKE IN THE BIG RACE AT 9.2 ON BETDAQ: Fifteen returns in seven days, capped by a gold strike in the big Saturday race, the Great St Wilfrid, a win-50 bull’s-eye bet, also played for a place, so scoring 62 points at 9.2 on BETDAQ in the morning. That’s the continuing story of Daqman tipping, which produced three winners yesterday:
WON 5-1 DAKOTA GOLD (from 9.2 BETDAQ): Great St Wilfrid
WON 100-30 ORVAR
WON 5-4 MUTAFAWWIG
NOW YAWNING 30 GAP BETWEEN DAQMAN AND PRICEWISE: Dakota Gold sent him 30 hits clear of Pricewise of the Racing Post and 38.3 points ahead, which is a 383 gap to 10-point level stakes on all selections.
Daqman 57 Pricewise 27 Daqman 383 points clear to 10pt stakes
Bull’s-eye naps (6-12 for 50% strike rate) 264 points, recommended stakes
Supernaps (18-26 for 69% strike rate) 118 points up to 20pt stakes
YORK GOES TOP WITH MILLION-POUND EBOR ADVENTURE: ‘York is the Ascot of the North’. That’s how the saying goes. But, in a levelling of fortunes, York has bagged the top horses of the year and a million-pound Ebor handicap next week, and the winners will dominate the rankings until the Champions Meeting in October. Look out for Daqman’s tipping stories starting tomorrow.
CONDITIONS SHOULD SUIT KLASSIQUE
1.35 Deauville (Prix de Pomone) The Deauville draw is expected to decide the race: gates 1 to 5 have won the last nine, stats which are mixed news for Aidan O’Brien, who has South Sea Pearl in the one stall but Peach Tree out wide in seven.
Even wider in a bucket-and-spade draw out on the plage is Freddy Head’s likely favourite, Listen In (10), and the whole home defence looks vulnerable.
Andre Fabre, who has won this Group-2 fillies and mares three times in seven years, has Ligne d’Or in the middle of the pack from gate 6.
Ligne d’Or has not raced over today’s trip since she lost the Minerve at this meeting a year ago. Hermaphrodite has been beaten favourite in two of her last three starts.
Apart from the draw negative, Listen In, herself beaten favourite the last twice, has not scored since Chantilly last October and has failed in both starts at Deauville.
Stalls line-up of the English and Irish raiders is South Sea Pearl (1), Dame Malliot (2), Love So Deep (3), Klassique (5), and Group-3 winner Peach Tree (7).
South Sea Pearl, a lazy sort, was behind Peach Tree over 1m 6f (firm at Leopardstown) in July but is preferred by Ryan Moore.
Dame Malliott is highly regarded by trainer Ed Walker and is Frankie Dettori’s first ride for more than a week, and his first at Deauville since he won a Group 1 on Advertise two weeks ago to the day.
She had the Ribblesdale third behind her in a Listed at Newmarket, with Love So Deep in fourth.
Sure to like the soft ground is 5.0 offer Klassique (James Doyle for William Haggas), who beat the prolific True Self in a Group 3 at Haydock and was third in the Lancashire Oaks there on firm.
Her form with ‘soft or heavy’ in the going return is 11. Trainer Haggas has had a staggering 18-42 (43%) strike rate in the last fortnight. Danger: Frankie, of course, on Dame Malliott.
EARTHLIGHT IS ‘REALLY SOMETHING’
2.50 Deauville (Prix Morny) This £180,000 prize has stayed at home only once in the decade ( England 7, America 2). The stars the race creates don’t shine for long, and usually end up as sprinters.
But this year’s event is an extraordinary clash of leading juveniles, with the race acting as the Darley series finale (my ratings):
112 A’ALI (Simon Crisford): Won the Norfolk Stakes at Royal Ascot on soft, which augurs well for today, and followed up in the main Darley test until now, the Prix Robert Papin, here at Deauville.
110 ARIZONA (Aidan O’Brien): The Coventry Stakes winner when the ground was good at Royal Ascot, with the second colt home later beaten a similar amount by Golden Horde at Goodwood. O’Brien hasn’t won the Morny since 2001.
115 EARTHLIGHT (Andre Fabre): Won a 6f race in the Darley Series in July (good to soft), giving 4lb and a five-lengths beating to Jolie, who was two-and-a-half lengths off A’Ali in the Robert Papin.
111 GOLDEN HORDE (Clive Cox): Outpaced and ‘very babyish’ (says his trainer) on good ground in the Coventry, finishing two lengths behind Arizona but collateral form says that he improved on that when scoring at Goodwood.
111 RAFFLE PRIZE (Mark Johnston) Duchess of Cambridge winner, beating the Albany Stakes heroine from Royal Ascot, where she herself had won the Queen Mary the day the ground was recorded as good to soft. Her rating includes 4lb sex allowance.
Verdict: Ratings and collateral form from races between 5f and 6f on different ground at a time when juveniles are growing up can be misleading but there could be a rare French winner. Whatever catches the home hope, Earthlight, wins. He’s unbeaten in three starts. Any one of these two-year-olds could be anything, but he’s reckoned ‘really something’!
ILLUSION BETTING AGAINST CORONET?
3.25 Deauville (Prix Jean Romanet) English raiders are 5-7, and are likely to have the favourite here in Coronet, winner of the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud in June but beaten over today’s Deauville CD under Frankie Dettori as a three-year-old.
The rest of her second season was mainly in the shadow of stablemate Enable, who beat her three times in the summer of 2017.
Coronet avoided her all last year but failed in four consecutive Group 1 starts, races won by Waldgeist, Poet’s Word, Sea of Class and Magical.
Officially, she is racing off 114 here, a pound behind Wild Illusion (115) and With You (115), ahead of I Can Fly 112, Worth Waiting 108 and Red Tea 107.
Wild Illusion, the Opera winner at the Arc meeting, was only fourth in the Pretty Polly at The Curragh, with Worth Waiting fifth and last. Of the pair, Wild Illusion is the Group-1 winner (twice) and likes the soft ground.
The filly I Can Fly has been a nearly horse at the top level but was a good third at Royal Ascot on the day it was riding soft.
Her career has been at a mile and it would be churlish to suggest that Aidan O’Brien has hidden her underlying talent for this but I thought it a sad day for Ballydoyle communications when longish-odds-on Sir Dragonet was ‘never at the races’ the other day.
Charlie Appleby was in fabulous form yesterday and William Buick will be keen to ‘stuff Frankie’ on Wild Illusion, a serious bet to beat Coronet if she’s back to the Opera form.
With You was not far behind Wild Illusion in the Opera but suffered her third defeat by Laurens here on the last day, despite being blinkered first time.
So we could be in a Buick v Dettori battle here, with the four-year-old filly (the age group has won 9-10) possibly having the edge on John Gosden’s grey mare.
MARMELO TO REGAIN THE KERGORLAY
4.00 Deauville (Prix Kergorlay) Hughie Morrison has won this twice in the last three years, including with Marmelo, a dual summer winner in 2018 and seemingly back to form when just nosed out of a Group 2 at Longchamp on the last day.
Marmelo was second in this last year and was pipped again, just a length off taking the Melbourne Cup, though easily outpointed by Cross Counter.
Mille Et Mille is a CD winner here but only at Listed level, and that result marks down Palpitator, who beat him a neck over today’s CD in July.
If they were going round again, I could fancy Pallasator! The old boy, now 10, has had a new lease of life under Gordon Elliott, with a win and second in the Queen Alexandra.
DAQMAN’S BETS
1.35 Deauville (win 20)
BET 5pts win KLASSIQUE
2.30 Pontefract (win 10)
BET 6pts win HEREBY
2.50 Deauville (win 10)
BET 3.5pts win EARTHLIGHT
3.25 Deauville (win 20)
BET 5pts win WILD ILLUSION
3.30 Pontefract (win 20)
BET 3pts win LAST EMPIRE
BET 2pts win PRINCES DES SABLES
4.00 Deauville (win 20)
BET 11pts win (nap) MARMELO
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