ANOTHER DIAMOND SATURDAY FOR DAQMAN WITH FIVE WINNERS: Daqman promised to tip the bottle yesterday and just couldn’t stop winning, landing five winners from six races at Beverley, Chester and Sandown. In best-SP order:
WON 7-1 VIVID DIAMOND
WON 13-2 JUDICIAL
WON 4-1 JUSTANOTHERBOTTLE
WON 11-4 GOOD BIRTHDAY
WON 4-5 POSITIVE
CLICKETY-CLICK! HE’S HIT 66 WINNING BETS AGAINST PRICEWISE: Daqman beat Pricewise of the Racing Post 3-2 for value bets, adding to his profits lead thanks to the 7-1 strike his opponent wished he’d had. That takes him 688 points clear to 10-point level stakes, as the returns score mounts to Daqman 66 Pricewise 30.
CURRENT ACCOUNTS
Daqman 66 Pricewise 30: Daqman 688 points clear to 10pt stakes
Bull’s-eye naps (7-14) 50% strike rate, 259 points to recommended stakes
Supernaps (18-28) 64% strike rate, 78 points up to 20pt stakes
SPIRIT RETURNS FOR ST LEGER TILT
1.00 Longchamp (Prix de Lutece) Godolphin’s St Leger outsider Moonlight Spirit preps for Doncaster in this 1m 7f Group 3, with James Doyle flying to Paris for the one ride.
Moonlight Spirit was third at this level on this course in the Spring before running fourth in the Queens Vase at Royal Ascot. Not seen since.
Andre Fabre gives himself two chances to spike the raider’s guns: Frankel’s son In Favour was five lengths behind Japan in the Grand Prix de Paris; Homer, a gelded son of Sea The Stars, has that ‘could be anything’ look after scoring twice at Clairefontaine, including over a few yards short of today’s trip, but needs to make a big step up.
FANSHAWE FILLY FULL OF PROMISE
2.50 Longchamp James Fanshawe (Sweet Promise) and Ralph Beckett (Sand Share and Glance) are looking for some black type for their fillies in this Listed.
Sweet Promise is by French Derby winner Intello who went on to be third to Treve in the Arc. She’s won only low-level novice races in England, and has to climb the grades here.
But James Fanshaw is placing them really well as usual: in the last 12 days, he’s had 12 out of 16 placed, five of them winners.
Sand Share and Glance are already Listed placed and Glance was third in the Group-2 Prix de Sandringham at Chantilly in June.
Top rated is Romanciere, one of two for Andre Fabre, who has been Group-3 placed four times. The stablemate who runs with her here, All Grace, was behind when Romanciere was third in the Prix de Psyche at Deauville.
But All Grace, Sweet Promise and a potential Freddy Head secret weapon, Soudania, are unexposed. I took 8.2 Sweet Promise, hoping Mickael Barzalona can hold Maxime Guyon on Romanciere, my even-money stakes saver.
4.10 Longchamp (Prix la Rochette) A Group 3 for two-year-olds, which features Les Hogues (Jean-Claude Rouget), a winner twice separated by probably her best run when second to Earthlight, who must rate around 115 after beating Queen Mary winner Raffle Prize a neck in the Prix Morny.
Snag is that Rouget also runs Sujet Libre and two in a race demands two bets as I will illustrate next week. This morning’s odds and offers didn’t allow for it. Watch the market.
THE MESSAGE IS FOR COMMUNIQUE..
4.10 Baden-Baden (Grosser Preis von Baden) Group 1 German grand prix equivalent of the King George in which the German Derby winner, Laccario, tries to win it for the Classic generation for the first time since his equine compatriot, Danedream, took it on the way to his Arc.
Laccario, who would have to be supplemented for this year’s Arc, has to fend off two powerful older horses, Communique (Mark Johnston) and Ghaiyyath (Charlie Appleby for Godolphin), this afternoon.
Communique was just run out of it by a length when splitting four-times-winner French King and Sheema Classic scorer Old Persian in the Berlin grand prix.
Ghaiyyath (Charlie Appleby for Godolphin) won the Prix d’Harcourt (Group 2) in the Spring. There were no excuses for his subsequent odds-on defeat, third, in the Group-1 Ganay because he ran to the same form with his Harcourt runner-up.
However, with the Arc in mind, the trainer has always thought of him as a galloping sort who needs today’s step up to 1m 4f, and he goes particularly well fresh.
SILENCE IS GOLDEN IN CORK NURSERY
3.20 Cork There isn’t an ounce between stablemates Royal County Down and Mythologic on their one-two at Galway but both may have to give way to Jessica Harrington’s lovely big Gleneagles filly, Silence Please, who impressed at Gowran and ‘could be anything.’ Worth trying at 5.1 BETDAQ offers.
4.30 Brighton The Jean Genie’s two wins were firstly against a two-miler who didn’t have the pace to challenge then against placed horses which had won only one start between them.
Quick has been beaten a total of 106 lengths in four starts since winning her maiden. Quick is clearly slow.
It all gives the progressive and versatile Cafe Sydney a fine chance of his hat-trick; up 10lb for winning at both 10 and 12 furlongs, one of them on today’s course. Around even money.
DAQMAN’S BETS
1.00 Longchamp (French supernap)
BET 20pts win MOONLIGHT SPIRIT
2.50 Longchamp (win 20)
BET 2.75pts win SWEET PROMISE
3.20 Cork (win 20)
BET 5pts win SILENCE PLEASE
4.30 Brighton (English supernap)
BET 20pts win CAFE SYDNEY
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