70-POINT EBOR HANDICAP STRIKE AT 16-1: THEN 9-1 FINALE: Daqman vowed on Saturday to win the Ebor and how his followers musta cheered when Mustajeer (WON 16-1) landed him 70 points from two bets on the one horse, a bull’s-eye win-50 strike and 20-point place, in the first £1million pound version of the race. Then he finished the York meeting with a flourish in the final race with a 9-1 winner.
WON 16-1 MUSTAJEER
WON 9-1 QUE AMORO
BETDAQ 26.0 TAKEN FOR SIXTH BIG-RACE WINNER AT YORK: It means that Daqman had a full house of big races on the Knavesmire: the Ebor, the International, the Gimcrack, the Great Voltigeur, the Lonsdale Cup and Yorkshire Oaks in one great week. Wednesday to Saturday hits:
WON 16-1 MUSTAJEER (Ebor Handicap from 26.0 on BETDAQ)
WON 9-1 QUE AMORO (from 12.5 on BETDAQ for York finale)
WON 5-1 JAPAN (Juddmonte International)
WON (2ND 10-1) VALE OF KENT (bull’s-eye bet)
WON 2-1 ALPINE STAR (Debutante Stakes, the Curragh)
WON 11-10 THREAT (Gimcrack Stakes)
WON 10-11 LOGICIAN (Great Voltigeur)
WON 4-9 STRADIVARIUS (Lonsdale Cup)
WON 1-4 ENABLE (Yorkshire Oaks)
PRICEWISE TRAILING BY 35 RETURNS WITH 618 POINTS GAP: The Ebor splash sent him soaring 618 points ahead of Pricewise of the Racing Post with clear blue water between their scores of 63-28.
Daqman 63 Pricewise 28 Daqman 618 points clear to 10pt stakes
Bull’s-eye naps (7-14 for 50% strike rate) 259 points, recommended stakes
Supernaps (18-27 for 67% strike rate) 98 points up to 20pt stakes
GER STEPS UP FOR THE LYONS’ SHARE
New Irish money machine? England is used to handing over the millions to Aidan O’Brien and Willie Mullins but Ger Lyons took a large chunk of a million pound from a single race back to Ireland when he landed the Ebor yesterday.
It was a great day, too, for Colin Keane, apprentice champion only five years ago, first-time full champion in 2017 and leading Donnacha O’Brien for this year’s title as he nears his 25th birthday.
With the four times unbeaten juvenile Siskin – Marble Hill, Railway Stakes and Phoenix on the trot – Ger Lyons is already well ahead in his planning for 2020.
But, in truth, the real hero yesterday was Mustajeer, who struck the front far too soon, almost three furlongs out, and hung on to a £600,000 slice of the Ebor million with the courage and determination of a Stradivarius or an Enable.
I hope he has a nice holiday now; he needs it after that.
LEVEL WITH ME! JAPAN MATCH OFFER
Enable’s top of the world. You don’t say! Those grotesque World Racehorse Rankings have come up with a new leader: maybe they read this column. Their latest ratings: Enable 128, Battaash 127, Crystal Ocean 127.
Because they can’t cope with weight-for-age allowances, they don’t rate Japan so highly and, according to the Raving Post:
‘Crystal Ocean retained his figure despite performing below his best when second to Japan in Wednesday’s Juddmonte International.’
Below his best? What cheek and doublespeak. Crystal Ocean retains his 127 when ‘below his best’! I’d like to bet the author of this nonsense, one of the 200 experts, that Crystal Ocean will never beat Japan in a horse race, and I’ll double the stake if they ever meet at level weights. Move on, you guys, his chance has gone.
SPINNING TOP OF THESE RATINGS..
1.35 Deauville (6f Group 3) Do they really know what’s bugging Big Brothers Pride – or what bug it was she had – to cause her to miss Royal Ascot (sick note) and fade out in her comeback bid at Goodwood. She ran a 109 race to score at Chantilly in the Spring (Ilanga behind).
This was around the same time that Stuart Williams’ Keystroke (105) was winning his Group 3. Viscount Barfield has just won over CD on heavy, ground which also suits Stake Acclaim (Frankie Dettori for Dean Ivory).
Glass Slippers (101) has already travelled over for Kevin Ryan from Yorkshire to Deauville and won a Listed (Tertius well beaten). Michael Bell’s Poetry (99) might have gone close in a Group 3 at Sandown but for being hampered.
Spinning Memories gave weight and a beating to Comedia Eria on heavy over 7f at Longchamp, and was fourth to Advertise in the Prix Maurice de Gheest (6.5f good, Group 1) at the beginning of the month. That rates the morning 4.1 offer at around 112.
GOLD TO GET STAR IN ARC EXAM PASS
3.30 Grand Prix de Deauville (1m Group 2) The grand-prix season draws to a close. Ziyad has been second in two, Chantilly (Group 2) and Saint-Cloud (Group 1), where he was beaten a neck by Coronet.
Soft Light is the only three-year-old; he has all the allowances and a York form boost from Japan, who beat him four lengths in the Grand Prix de Paris (Group 1).
Arc hope Nagano Gold was unlucky at Royal Ascot, ‘badly hampered and not clear run’, before beaten only half a length by Defoe in the Hardwicke Stakes (Group 2).
I’ve never seen so many bridesmaids in one race, and hard to choose between them, but the Czech stable has put in some pace (Premier Lion) and Nagano Gold, son of St Leger winner, Sixties Icon, could outstay them all under Christophe Soumillon.
PROTECT GUEST WIN BET WITH PLACE
2.50 Yarmouth This 10-furlong handicap could provide a duel between a former champion jockey, Ryan Moore on Elector, and a young contender, the determined Cieren Fallon.
Moore rides Elector, highly regarded Suffolk Stakes winner for The Queen, and Fallon Junior tries to steer Gifts Of Gold to a hat-trick, helping him no end before they even start by claiming 5lb off his 11lb rise.
Oasis Prince is a course winner whose success so far has been at 1m. But Protected Guest is a CD winner who could bounce back to form at a decent price.
George Margarson has a tremendous strike rate for a small stable (56% in the last 12 months) and he’s booked Tom Queally for his only ride of the day.
Protected Guest won this race last year. I saw some 22.0 this morning. Then I blinked and it was 12.5, now it’s 18.5 (I’ll take that, win and 3.3 place). I would have place-napped him but we’re down to only two places.
3.00 Goodwood (Ladbrokes Handicap) Le Don De Vie won two for Andrew Balding in the Spring before moving to Hugh Morrison and experimenting over an extra two furlongs but is down in trip again today.
That race was here at Goodwood and we now know that the Don was facing very strong opposition in Sir Ron Priestley: 4.5 in a four-horse race sounds good.
FOX SUPREME CHAMPION BET AT 10.5
4.10 Goodwood (Supreme Stakes, 7f Group 3) Anna Nerium is one of three last year’s winners back for a repeat this afternoon. The two others are Fannie By Gaslight (4.45) and Firenze Rosa (5.20) but rain is needed by both. Keep a weather-eye open.
As for Anna Nerium, she is not ground dependant and is one of only two CD winners in this race; the other one is nine years old. That CD win was Breton Rock’s last success, two years and 13 losers ago.
In fact, there has never been a winner of this race older than six since its inception in 1981, which is also a big negative for Limato and Suedois. The three-year-olds have the best record.
Momkin’s defeats by Duke Of Hazzard don’t look at all bad now that the Duke has won the Celebration Mile. Fox Champion, a front runner suited by today’s track, landed four in a row until overfaced in Group 1.
This race is nothing like the St James’s Palace (Circus Maximus won it), Prix Jean Prat (Too Darn Hot ) or Maurice de Gheest (Advertise), and BETDAQ 10.5 the Fox is too big.
Stable mate Anna Nerium is 21.0 and we’d look pretty stupid if she won without a saver on her.
5.00 Beverley Jomrok’s trainer is 3-3 with three-year-olds here, and this stiff mile looks perfect after he failed to last out 10 furlongs at Doncaster, third to yesterday’s Melrose runner-up First In Line.
DAQMAN’S BETS
1.35 Deauville (win 10)
BET 3.25pts win SPINNING MEMORIES
2.50 Yarmouth (win 30, win 10 place)
BET 1.75pts win and 4.25pts place PROTECTED GUEST
3.00 Goodwood (win 10)
BET 2.75pts win LE DON DE VIE
3.30 Deauville (win 10)
BET 6pts win NAGANO GOLD
4.10 Goodwood (win 30, win 10 a place)
BET 3pts win and 5pts place FOX CHAMPION
BET 1.4pts win, 2.75pts place ANNA NERIUM
5.00 Beverley (win 10)
BET 4pts win (nap) JOMROK
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