THREE BIG HITTERS IN AN HOUR: Daqman had a one-hour affair with the big-money winners across the cards at Doncaster and Leopardstown yesterday, landing two Group 1 strikes and scoring a one-two in the 22-runner Portland Handicap, all three big hits between the 2.25 Doncaster and 3.25 Leopardstown.
Profit on the day: 62.50
WON 4-1 AMERICAN AFFAIR (Betdaq Betting Exchange 8.7 taken)
* 2ND 16-1 APOLLO ONE (Betdaq Betting Exchange 21.0 taken) same race
WON 5-4 PORTA FORTUNA FORTUNE COOKIE Matron Stakes
WON 7-4 ECONOMICS napped in the Irish Champion Stakes
REACHING FOR THE STARS: Daqman sticks to the stars today, playing up his winnings among the Group races, with Fortune Cookies (six) and supernaps (two) at Longchamp and the Curragh.
STORY OF FOUR FRANKELS
⭕ 3.00 Curragh (Moyglare Stud Stakes): Aidan O’Brien has produced many a top filly in this but not one of his three winners in the decade started favourite.
Minding (2015), Happily (2017) and Love (2019) were 15-2, 13-2 and 6-1 at SP. All had different jockeys, with Ryan Moore riding only Love.
Today Moore is on Bedtime Story, the obvious favourite, yet any one of three other Frankels, Lake Victoria, Exactly or Red Letter could turn the Story into a nightmare.
BEDTIME STORY FORTUNE COOKIE Unbeaten in four starts, slamming the colts in the Chesham, after climbing the ladder from maiden to Listed through Group 3 to Group 2.
The only threat to the Frankel filly so far has been another Frankel emerging from her shadow, stablemate Exactly.
EXACTLY Was well beaten three and a half lengths by Bedtime Story in the Silver Flash but closed her down to half a length in the Debutante and has ‘next year’ written all over her.
LAKE VICTORIA 2-2 and also a daughter of Frankel, and another FORTUNE COOKIE, comfortably beat Mountain Breeze in the Sweet Solera at Newmarket.
RED LETTER A fourth Frankel in the race is Red Letter, just touched off by Lake Victoria in the CD in the early summer.
CUP KING CAN LAND LEGER
⭕ 4.45 Curragh (Irish St Leger): I had the Irish Leger run at Leopardstown in my preview; sorry about that: a rare qwerty!
KYPRIOS: It makes no difference to Kyprios, who has won at both big Irish venues over today’s trip, including this race in 2022.
He was runner-up last year to a younger horse but those under five today have dropped out, apart from two who are a stone and more behind him.
When I wrote the preview, the 2023 Doncaster St Leger winner, Continuous, was still in the field. So was Jan Brueghel, who went to Doncaster instead and edged out Illinois in a cracking finish, with the unlucky Sunway bumped out of making a challenge.
GIAVELLOTTO: That Kyprios has landed Cup races of up to a mile further has not blunted his speed. The same applies to his nearest rival, Giavellotto.
Giavellotto beat last year’s winner of this Irish St Leger (Eldar Eldarov) when they met in the Yorkshire Cup last Spring and he returned to form in the same race one year on, defeating Vauban eased down.
CONTINUOUS ARC TRIALS..
⭕ 1.33 Longchamp (Prix Foy) Three Arc trials, all at 1m 4f, start with previous winner of the Foy – Iresine, now aged 7 – defending against Continuous, last year’s St Leger winner, missing from Irish Champions weekend to get soft ground here.
Continuous is ridden by Christophe Soumillon, who was bumped out of the finish of yesterday’s Doncaster St Leger on Sunway.
⭕ 2.57 Longchamp (Prix Vermeille) Here’s the fillies’ and mares’ trial, won on the way to Arc glory by Zarkava (2008) and Treve (2023-14).
The 2019 winner of this, Sotsass, also went on to win the Arc but not for another year after flopping in the Irish Champion Stakes.
After beating Emily Upjohn in the Pretty Polly at the Curragh (soft), FORTUNE COOKIE Bluestocking ran second in the King George to French star Goliath (Sunway 4th) and fourth to City Of Troy and Goliath’s stablemate, Calandagan, in the International at York.
She meets her own sex today but Opera Singer, another FORTUNE COOKIE, looks a formidable rival – yet another for the in-demand Soumillon – second to Port a Fortuna in the Coronation Stakes (1m) and winner of the Nassau. Can she step up again?
⭕ 3.40 Longchamp (Prix Niel) Look De Vega today steps up to 1m 4f for the first time but Sosie, whom he beat in the French Derby, has already taken that step, and a Group-1 scalp in the process, by beating Illinois a good couple of lengths in the Grand Prix de Paris, with Delius third.
That looks even better after Illinois ran a desperately-close second to improved Ballydoyle stablemate Jan Brueghel in the Doncaster St Leger yesterday.
DAQMAN’S BETS
1.33 Longchamp
French SUPERNAP
20pts win CONTINUOUS
2.57 Longchamp
FORTUNE COOKIES
10pts win BLUESTOCKING
15pts OPERA SINGER
3.00 Curragh
FORTUNE COOKIES
10pts win BEDTIME STORY
10pts win LAKE VICTORIA
3.40 Longchamp
FORTUNE COOKIES
15pts win LOOK DE VEGA
10pts win SOSIE
4.45 Curragh
Irish SUPERNAP
20pts win KYPRIOS
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