THREE OUT OF THREE FOR DAQMAN: Daqman landed three winners out of three at Deauville yesterday – including his 20-point supernap – and is back for more there today, Prix Morny day. His profit from the French hat-trick yesterday: 34 points.
WON 3-5 AVERTURE (supernap)
WON 2-1 APPLES AND BANANAS
WON 7-5 SIMMERING
LOOK OUT AT YORK: Look out tomorrow as Daqman launches his York previews, with Fortune Cookies, hot naps and long-odds bulls-eye bets.
SQUARE DEAL FOR THE LEGER
WHILE Deauville, Ripon, Newbury and Newmarket made headlines, the Curragh stole the ‘winner of the day’ tag in its St Leger Trial yesterday.
Grosvenor Square had taken a sudden 8lb leap forward when second in the Curragh Cup in July, but on good-to-firm ground yesterday pulverised the opposition in a very hot time.
Dropped in class and 2-1 on favourite, he was clearly up for it but, in a time almost four seconds fast, he ran 20 lengths clear under Ryan Moore, who completed a treble on the card for Aidan O’Brien.
Grosvenor Square’s reported ‘stamina with a terrific engine’ was put to the test as Moore wound up that engine coming down the hill and higher rated rivals had no answer nor could hope to find one.
‘It’s very hard not to go to Doncaster after that,’ said a delighted O’Brien, who also trains the horse that won the Curragh Cup, Tower Of London.
SUPER SEVIGNE FOUR-TIMER
🇫🇷 1.33 Deauville (Prix Jean Romanet) Mqse De Sevigne, winner of £771k, and Blue Rose Cen, who has earned around twice that at £1.4m, are the only Group-1 winners in this race.
The three others are Group-3 players trying, not for the first time, to play grown-up games and with no special reason for improvement here.
Blue Rose Cen was a great servant to FORTUNE COOKIES last year, taking the French 1,000 Guineas and Oaks, then the Opera at the Arc meeting.
She helped put trainer Christopher Head into the big time but switched stables this Spring and has twice been beaten out of a place in races two months apart, behind hat-trick filly Mqse de Sevigne in the Ispahan and beaten again by the same horse in the Rothschild.
🇫🇷 2.50 Deauville (Prix Morny) This prize has stayed at home in France only once in the decade when the subsequent Middle Park winner Earthlight (2019) took it for Andre Fabre.
Four from the front of the market are from previous Morny winning stables in England and Ireland.
Karl Burke (Shareholder and Arabie) won in 2017; Aidan O’Brien (Whistlejacket) in 2022, and Simon and Ed Crisford (Arabian Dusk) with Vandeek last year.
Shareholder had Whistlejacket back in fourth when winning the Norfolk Stakes at Royal Ascot, which gave him a mark of 105.
Officially stablemate Arabie (holds Daylight on Chantilly form) notched up a 106 rating with a hat–trick culminating in a Robert Papin gamble but you have to concede that second, third and fourth that day have all been beaten since.
Rashabar’s Coventry Stakes triumph didn’t have much going for it until Cowardofthecounty stepped up from a modest 7th in the Ascot race to win a Group 3 at Deauville last weekend.
Arabian Dusk won a Group 2 on the Newmarket July course, beating Mountain Breeze and Heavens Gate, who had been third and fourth behind Fairy Godmother and Saturday’s Deauville winner Simmering in the Albany at Royal Ascot.
🇫🇷 3.25 Deauville (Prix Alec Head) Friendly Soul, who readily won a Group 3 at Ascot in July for Team Gosden, takes on the Prix Saint-Alary winner, Birthe, with the Sun Chariot on British Champions Day as the ultimate target.
The Aga Khan’s Frankel filly Candala was unlucky (started slowly; not clear run) in the French Oaks and again (short of room 1f out) in the Malleret the last day.
Francis-Henry Graffard admits she made a lot of her own trouble by calling on a hood to help her this afternoon.
IT’S ADAAY TO REMEMBER..
⭕ 4.45 Pontefract It’s 5-5 between three-year-olds and four-year-olds in this Flying Fillies Listed (6f).
They clash here on equal ratings at level weights but with Adaay In Devon (aged 3) having a draw advantage over Rage Of Bamby (now 4). Stalls 1, 2, 3 have totalled six winners out of 10 in the decade.
Adaay In Devon has won two Listeds already. In one of them at Bath (officially ‘good’ ground), Rage Of Bamby trailed in last of 13, with her trainer blaming the ground.
Marine Wave played up at the start when four lengths behind Adaay In Devon (second) at York. Miaharris, Group-3 third at Chantilly, has no form on a sound surface.
⭕ 5.15 Pontefract The expert at managing the sequence horse, Sir Mark Prescott has found another opening for Godsend but this class 3 is his toughest target.
Godsend is on four wins out of five, three of them class 6, trying to back up a neck success in a three-horse affair over this trip here at Pontefract which took him up a total of 21lb.
The runner-up was a stone behind in the ratings but Godsend almost snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by hanging badly a furlong out. A slow pace caused an earlier blip in the sequence, second at Ffos Las.
Another Frankel, Letsbefrank, has climbed the ranks more than a stone since joining Jim Goldie and stepping up in trip.
Tenerife Sunshine could win it if bouncing back to the form of his Goodwood strike at this kind of trip in June. He’s dropped back to a similar mark and Billy Loughnane takes over after riding a hat-trick during the week. Betdaq Betting Exchange 7.3 this morning.
DAQMAN’S BETS
1.33 Deauville (supernap)
BET 20pts win MQSE DE SEVIGNE
2.50 Deauville (win 10)
BET 4pts win SHAREHOLDER
3.25 Deauville (win 10)
BET 2pts win BIRTHE
4.45 Pontefract (English nap)
BET 10pts win ADAAY IN DEVON
5.15 Pontefract (win 30)
BET 5pts win TENERIFE SUNSHINE
BET 5pts to win 10 LETSBEFRANK
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