9-4 FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH: Goodwood ended with some dead wood for Daqman yesterday but he produced a superb nap when Dartmouth (WON 9-4) looked potential Group material in winning a handicap under Olivier Peslier.
SIX NAPS THIS WEEK SO FAR: Dartmouth gave Daqman a sixth nap up in the big festivals week – three each at Goodwood and Galway – with one day left:
WON 5-4 Bachasson
WON 1-2 Long Dog (banker)
WON 5-4 Time To Inspire
WON 2-5 Solow (banker)
WON 11-8 Shalaa (banker)
WON 9-4 Dartmouth
BEST BET IS AT DEAUVILLE TODAY: Daqman remains 73-11 up on Pricewise (214-84 overall), and his lays sequence is 16 out of the last 18. Today is the final day at Galway, with Daqman v. Pricewise there and at Deauville, the venue Daqman picks for his nap.
ERVEDYA FOR DEAUVILLE DOUBLE ONE YEAR ON
2.40 Deauville The filly Ervedya, who beat the colts in this last year, runs in today’s Prix Rothschild for Jean-Claude Rouget, who saddled Cladocera to be a respectable fourth in the Nassau Stakes at Goodwood yesterday.
Rouget runs the filly Rkaya in this for Al Shaqab Racing, which landed a four-timer at Goodwood, two Group 2 and two Group 3, plus winners for ‘names’ in their entourage.
Tourny and Du Pyla have already been placed in a Group 3, while Money Maker has won a Listed. James Wigan is represented by Take A Look, trained by Freddy Head.
Kevin Ryan asks Mont Kiara to take a big leap from York auction maiden on a par with Rouget’s demands of Rkaya to step up from success in the French Provinces.
It’s a plot which Rouget has hatched before and his current form in France is a tres-excellent 1224120114. Freddy Head is also in form, including of course with the superb Solow at Goodwood.
3.10 Deauville (Prix Rothschild) Ervedya, the Longchamp 1,000 Guineas winner, has won on very soft ground in France and on firm at Royal Ascot, when she took the Coronation Stakes, beating the runners-up of the Newmarket Guineas and the Curragh Guineas.
David O’Meara (thanks for So Beloved, David) saddles Amazing Maria, the Windsor Forest winner from Rizeena (Cladocera third), and she should chase home Ervedya.
Another filly seemingly on the up, ‘Maria’ may have done well to dispose of Euro Charline and Avenir Certain in the Falmouth at the July meeting, with Bawina (needs rain) and Fintry beaten off, but they finished all of a heap and the race was run in a very slow time.
Fintry had beaten Avenir Certain at Chantilly further than did Amazing Maria at Newmarket but that was also in a poor time.
Andre Fabre does here what Rouget attempts with Rkaya earlier on, taking Usherette through the grades to Group 1 straight from a conditions-race success. And he’s done that before, too!
WEIGHTS GIVE OASIS THE EDGE FOR WACHMAN
3.20 Galway Last year’s one-two of Baraweez and Jack’s Revenge do battle again, with Jack poised for revenge at the revised weights but with his stable out of form (17 losers in a row).
No one’s missing strike as badly as Dermot Weld (Alkasser), his Galway runners currently 432300420222331, so many placed without winning but saved by the bell with an odds-on shot in the bumper last night.
Hidden Oasis was a long way behind in this last year but has plummeted 20lb in the handicap and looked back to form at Navan on the last day, with trainer David Wachman landing four winners in four days at Galway and Goodwood.
Hidden Oasis won at Galway as a two-year-old and the rain-softened ground is in his favour. It’s just right for Beau Satchel but can he be turned out to win twice in five days for Ado McGuinness.
Also down in the weights is Pintura, winner of this in 2012 and now a stone lower than when second in 2013; back to form at Ayr on the last day.
Group-3 placed Piri Wango is the class horse, blinkered first time, and Pintura had a similar weight when he won in 2012.
Fastidious’ Curragh stable has done well this week for a small yard, winner and placed at this festival, and has Fastidious visored first time under a 10lb claimer.
The low half of the draw has won this five times in seven years. That’s where you’ll find Beau Satchel and Fastidious, though boph have been beaten by Texas Frock
Texas Rock was, in turn, well behind the progressive Have A Nice Day, if only that one had a better draw than 11. I took 6.0 BETDAQ offers Hidden Oasis and 9.6 Piri Wango.
PORTAMENTO HAS WON AT CHESTER ALREADY
3.15 Chester (Queensferry Stakes) Last year’s winner Intransigent, who was also second in the race the year before, has scored off a higher mark since, and was beaten only a head in a Listed over 7f here three weeks ago.
He’s up 7lb over the last year even though he’s now six. But can he beat the three-year-olds? We saw Magical Mystery from the Classsic generation give the older horses a lesson in speed yesterday to be talked about as ‘a Group horse in a handicap.’
Eastern Impact and Portamento are already Group horses, with Eastern Impact placed in the July Cup and Portamento beaten only a length in the Hackwood Stakes (Group 3 ) at Newbury recently.
Portamento had won his previous race here at Chester, nearly two lengths in front of yesterday’s Stewards Cup third Rivellino. I took 4.7, worried that the favourite, Eastern Impact, is a straight-track horse.
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked to win 20 points)
BET 6pts win RKAYA (2.40 Deauville)
BET 12pts win (nap) ERVEDYA (3.10 Deauville)
BET 5.4pts win PORTAMENTO (3.15 Chester)
BET 4pts win HIDDEN OASIS and 2.3pts win PIRI WANGO (3.20 Galway)
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