ANOTHER NAP FOR DAQMAN: Tenability, one of his two winners at the Shergar Cup meeting yesterday, was Daqman’s third winning nap in five days (see results yesterday).
SATURDAY (Shergar Cup)
WON 10-3 PRINCE OF INDIA
WON 7-4 TENABILITY (nap)
TODAY: Is there a sprint champion at Deauville? A gamble at Haydock?
TOMORROW: Don’ miss the Daqman Monday Club.
LAZZAT ZIP WILL PREVAIL
⭕ 3.05 Deauville (Prix Maurice de Gheest) A heat wave is due to hit the eastern coastline of France tomorrow (35 degrees) but the good-to-soft ground will already be drying in the sunshine (24 degrees) expected this afternoon, though I imagine they will have watered as usual.
English raiders have won five of the last 10 of this extended sprint (6.5f) and had the 1-2-3 the year (2022) Highfield Princess won for John Quinn.
The surprise today is how many runners there are, with last year’s winner, Lazzat, surely hot favourite after making all in the Group-1 Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot, looking all over a champion.
He seems much the best of the older horses, which is why all the market opposition is from three-year-olds.
Rayveka, Listed level in France, and Shadow Of Light (beaten favourite) were third and fifth in the Commonwealth Cup, and Shadow Of Light, who has been beaten again since, doesn’t want the ground to dry out.
Here at Deauville last month, back up to 7f, he was fourth in a blanket finish to the Jean Prat, won by Rayveka’s stablemate Woodshauna, which suggests that the second-season animals are close together.
Last year’s Commonwealth Cup winner Inisherin, who had won the Sandy Lane on soft, reappeared after wind surgery to take a Group-2 at York (firm) in the Spring but was six lengths behind Lazzat at the royal meeting.
DIRECTION: 2YO WINNERS
⭕ 4.45 Haydock Karl Burke’s form with two-year-olds is currently 10121114. Today they include No Direction, who is taken to give Daqman a hat-trick this week with unraced juveniles.
No Direction is bred to race at Group level as a two-year-old in a race in which you’d expect the Haggas (Hardy’s Hero) and the Hughes (Royalist) to be priming a decent handicap mark.
Nigel Tinkler’s Soul Warrior also has the pedigree, and the stable had its first 2025 juvenile winner on AW on Thursday but there have been 30 straight losers on turf.
Soul Warrior has increased in value from €10,000 as a foal to £20,000 as a yearling to 50,000gns as a 2yo at breeze-up.
‘Tink’, too, will be thinking of handicaps but this one clearly impressed at his breeze-up, where the buyer was a former trainer who is a good judge of juveniles.
FRANK THE MARKET FANCY
⭕ 6.15 Haydock With Oisin Murphy riding at Deauville, he misses James Ferguson’s Wolfpack, on whom he won at Thirsk in early July.
Murphy was booked to ride him in a race here yesterday but Ferguson held over the former Andrew Balding three-year-old for this mile today, as his first run after being gelded.
Cieren Fallon takes over but the delayed race may be against him, with conditions drying fast. The market will tell all if recent Ferguson returns are any indication.
He won with an 11-10 favourite at Yarmouth a week ago, sandwiched between SPs at 15-2, 10-1, 18-1, 22-1, 25-1 (twice), 28-1 (3rd), 50-1 and 80-1; all losers, just the one placed.
The morning mover was Be Frank, trained by Ian Williams, who also shows his hand in the market. Be Frank primed for this at Chepstow on Thursday.
The stable’s favourites in the last two weeks have all run well, the last four of them all winning at different venues: Newmarket, Chepstow, Ascot, Redcar.
Be Frank 6.9 offers on the Betdaq Betting Exchange exchange at 10.30 am with, for reference, 7.2 Wolfpack.
DAQMAN’S BETS on Betdaq Betting Exchange
★ 3.05 Deauville (France supernap)
BET 20pts win LAZZAT
6.15 Haydock (win 30)
BET 5pts win BE FRANK
6.45 Haydock(win 30, England nap)
BET 7pts win NO DIRECTION
BET 1pt win SOUL WARRIOR
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