19.5 BETDAQ GAMBLE WINS AT 8-1: How does he keep on doing it? Daqman made it 10 winning bets in two days at the Galway and Goodwood festivals with a six hit yesterday from just six races, involving a massive winning gamble in the first at Goodwood from 19.5 on BETDAQ to 8-1 at SP. He had:
+ A 3-1 winning nap.
+ The Stewards Cup star
+ Fortune Cookie win
+ The huge 19.5 gamble
+ And a double up!
+ Day’s profit: 79 points
3-1 WIN IN BACK-TO-BACK NAPS: Westerner Lady (WON 3-1) in the Ladbrokes Hurdle at Galway gave him back-to-back naps after Kings Fete (banker, WON 5-2) at Goodwood on Friday, and he romped right away from Pricewise in their value challenge by 5-2 to take the overall score to 63-27. His winning bets:
WON 8-1 Hoof It (from 19.5 on BETDAQ)
WON 3-1 Westerner Lady (nap)
WON 9-2 Dancing Star (Stewards Cup from 7.0)
3rd 16-1 Raucous (Stewards Cup from 18.0)
WON 1-5 Minding (Fortune Cookie and double with the nap)
DAQMAN PLANS TON-UP ATTACK ON RECORD: At this time last year, Daqman had won 73 feature races, and went on to record his best-ever season (105-23 over Pricewise). So he intends to have his foot on the gas in the next three months. Let’s see how he gets on today, with a nap on the final day at Galway and a head-to-head with Pricewise at Deauville.
THIRD TIME LUCKY FOR ALICE SPRINGS
3.15 Deauville (Prix Rothschild) It’s three-year-olds 20, four-year-olds 13 since 1980, with only three to older horses in this Group 1, won four years running (2008-11) by the glittering Golidkova, so she was responsible for two of the three wins for mares.
Since then, English raiders are three from four – among them Amazing Maria a year ago – split only by three-time Group-1 winner, Andre Fabre’s Esoterique, narrow winner from Miss France in 2014.
Miss France beat Integral in the Sun Chariot that year, and Esoterique beat the same one in that race last backend, made to look even worse
because three-year-olds were particularly poorly represented. Impassable beat Miss France in the Daniel Wildenstein.
A generation all of a heap suggests that a hotter bunch of three-year-olds would take them on and beat them. Surely one of their sextet today can emerge and, potentially, do the Sun Chariot double this time around. But which one?
Alice Springs will love the ground on a sunny day in Deauville. Had Amazing Maria (something amiss) last of all when winning the Falmouth from the four-year-olds on a fast surface at the July Meeting.
(Irish Rookie, four lengths fourth, had been only two lengths off Esoterique in the Sun Chariot).
But Alice Springs was only seventh in the French 1,000 Guineas in which Qemah was third, and Qemah has since beaten the Ballydoyle filly again in the Coronation Stakes, albeit on the soft.
But Alice lay too far out of her ground that day and finished with a rattle on ground she didn’t much like, so the third meeting could be decided by that Deauville sun.
Lumiere may have been flattered by beating Cymric (poor run since) and a maiden, Manabo, at the July Meeting, but she certainly bounced back from her 1,000 Guineas flop. I expect to get 4.0 Alice Springs.
DANZENO FOR LATE DASH AT THE SPEED
3.15 Chester (Queensferry Stakes) The last two winners, Eastern Impact (Richard Fahey) and Intransigent (Andrew Balding), clash here with the Balding stable lifted by its Stewards’ Cup success.
He’s one of three trainers – the two others are Charlie Appleby and Richard Hannon – who are in particularly good form.
Balding does best of the three at Chester, and Intransigent won this from a worse draw (gate 11), and is 4lb better on last year with the winner, Eastern Impact, when he finished fast but too late.
Aeolus is down in grade but the one stall may not suit his style, and the ‘bad’ draw for hold-up horse Danzeno (from 10) is actually helpful.
At 5.9, a Group-3 winner who will enjoy the sound surface, but must not get too far behind. Intransigent is huge at 19.0.
ENDEAVOUR TO FOIL ELLISON QUARTET
3.20 Galway Baraweez, who beat a small field in 2014 and landed a lucky stall (2) last year, goes for the hat-trick from a wide draw (14) today.
As last year, Baraweez had an outing on the opening day but was not so close this time, and the horse he beat a neck in 2015, ever-present Pintura, has had a better season.
Pintura was also second in 2013 and won it in 2012, one of few to defy a double-figure gate. He’s huge at 19.0 in the BETDAQ orange, as I write.
Ellison ‘does a Johnston’ and runs three more, both seen out earlier in the week: Top Notch Tonto (stall 15 today) and Stipulate (in 3) both finished in front of Baraweez on Tuesday. Dream Walker (gate 12) was placed on Thursday.
Three-year-olds are rare runners in this (a winner and two narrow seconds from just nine to start since 2007) but there’s a progressive sort of that age group in Reckless Endeavour, 19.6 best on BETDAQ this morning.
6.00 Galway Dermot Weld seems super confident about First Figaro, who goes well fresh, is a course winner and was only six lengths down in the Cheltenham Bumper. Banker nap.
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked to win 20 points, except the banker)
BET 4pts win DANZENO and 1.2pts win and place INTRANSIGENT (3.15 Chester)
BET 6pts win ALICE SPRINGS (3.15 Deauville)
BET 2.3pts win and place RECKLESS ENDEAVOUR, and 1.2pts win and place PINTURA (3.20 Galway)
BANKER: BET 20pts win (nap) FIRST FIGARO (6.00 Galway)
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