DAQMAN SCORES 70 OUT OF 100: Daqman’s challenge to Pricewise landed 100 wins for the season when Daqman hit the mark with a double yesterday, taking him into a 70-30 lead. Pricewise picked outsiders; Daqman tipped winners: result 2-0. It’s the third mutual ton in six seasons; Daqman’s highest score since his own 105 of the 2015 Flat.
WON 7-2 Certificate
WON 13-8 Platitude
PUNTERS WERE BETTING BLIND: Damper of the day came courtesy of Dane O’Neill, who failed at the first attempt to remove the blindfold from the Beverley banker, Pedro Serrano, and the gambled-on Henry Candy maiden therefore lost many lengths at the start.
TODAY’S NAP IS AT DEAUVILLE: There’s another Daqman v Pricewise match today in the Irish Cambridgeshire at The Curragh. But first a look at Goodwood and the nap at Deauville.
I FANCY ADOOL TO IMPROVE A DEAL..
3.50 The Curragh (Snow Fairy Stakes) Somehow and Skiffle, fourth and fifth in the Epsom Oaks, bring Classic form to the table. Neither has impressed, though this is a shorter trip.
I like a progressive sort at this time of year and, in only three starts, Adool has moved up within only a few pounds of them.
She has beaten the older benchmark, Molly Dolly, though again Molly is better known at 7f: offers of 4.7 Adool on BETDAQ early mouse. Planchart for the in-form Andrew Slattery has also been doing well at shorter than today.
SO BELOVED LOOKS SET FOR A REPEAT
4.20 Goodwood (Supreme Stakes) Favourites have been beaten only about three lengths all told in the last four seasons – pipped on the line twice – but have failed to pin this prize down for 10 years now.
Three and four year olds, who dominated with eight wins out of nine, have flopped the last twice, including when So Beloved scored last year.
So Beloved would win this again if repeating his City of York second to the big improver Nemoralia when the third home, Jallota, was running his 15th stakes race without success.
But there can’t be much between So Beloved and Convey on their second and third at Haydock in the Spring, when So Beloved finished two lengths down on that rival but failed to get a clear run.
The quirky Convey and the Listed winner Opal Tiara (failed sole attempt in Group company) will struggle to stop a So Beloved repeat.
SILVER’S CHANCE OF GROUP-3 GOLD
4.25 Deauville (Prix de Meautry) Silver Rainbow beat nothing well at Newmarket for back-to-back handicap success in July but followed up comfortably in a Listed here at Deauville when she got the better of a Group-3 level pair, Monsieur Joe and Yakaba.
We can surely forgive her the last-day run, out of her depth in the Group-1 Nunthorpe, and this Group-3 looks ideal to continue her improvement. Gerald Mosse rides in a race won six times this century by English raiders.
Yakaba renews rivalry with the selection and Finsbury Square is a Deauville winner at this level, though over 5f; this is 6f.
Karar, fourth in the French 2,000 Guineas of 2015, is of possible interest dropped back to sprinting. David O’Meara’s Lord Of The Land needs to improve a few pounds.
O’Meara also runs Watchable in a Group-2 sprint at Baden-Baden (3.40), in which Owen Burrows saddles Markaz and Mick Channon Divine.
THERE MAY BE BE MOR FROM HALFORD
5.00 The Curragh (Irish Cambridgeshire) I suggested in last Tuesday’s column, keeping an eye out for whichever of six entries Mick Halford declares.
He’s won it twice (2006 and 2010) and been placed three times in a row (2013, 2014 and 2015, two of them second).
Unfortunately, he’s left in five of them, including the third home in this race in 2014, Hasanour, who ran well enough in the Royal Hunt Cup.
It’s a pinstickers’ race, with little sign of an edge in any stats and facts, though Curragh winners do well; and big-field success indicates the temperament for this cavalry charge.
That’s two ticked boxes for Hasanour, and two for another of Halford’s, Cailin Mor. Two for Breathe Easy, Sea Wolf, Mr Right, and Plough Boy.
Dream Walker has also beaten big fields. Aared, too, and he was third in a 26-runner race on today’s course.
Instant Attraction looks worth the trip over: the moral at Epsom, beaten narrowly giving away weight; then only three lengths off the winner in the Royal Hunt Cup.
But he has to give weight all round, and I’ll take the Halford filly Cailin Mor (11.5 offers on BETDAQ), for the low numbers, the consistent Aared (14.5) down the middle and Breathe Easy (15.0) from the high.
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked to win 20 points)
BET 5.5pts win ADOOL (3.50 The Curragh)
BET 10pts win (nap) SILVER RAINBOW (4.25 Deauville)
BET 2pts win CAILIN MOR, and 1.5pts win and place on each AARED and BREATHE EASY (5.00 The Curragh)
DAQ MULTIPLES: 3 x 3pts win doubles and a 1pt win treble Fidaawy (3.20 Goodwood), Folkswood (3.55 Yarmouth) and So Beloved (4.20 Goodwood)
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