DAQMAN LANDS 8-1 ECLIPSE WINNER: Daqman yesterday added yet another big-race win to his shelf of trophies with Ulysses (WON 8-1) in the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown. While Press tipsters were debating between three-year-olds and older horses, Daqman used commonsense and BETDAQ value to back one of each.
HE GAVE THE ONE-TWO TWICE: Daqman’s Fortune Cookies had two runners in the big race, Ulysses (WON 8-1) and Barney Roy (2nd), and the same pair were the top two in his Thursday ABC guide on the race.
TWO MORE WINS FOR THE 50: It was another blank day for Pricewise so the Eclipse success sent Daqman 48-8 up and 209 points clear of his Racing Post rival to single-unit stakes. Two for the 50 up will surely come at Newmarket and The Curragh next week.
REMINDER: LOSERS ARE WINNERS, TOO
It’s a case of ‘I told you so.’ But, even after tipping the Eclipse one-two twice, it can still be said against me (of the horses I opposed): Put your money where your mouth is!
I’m talking about the lays I missed. The ones I warned you AGAINST this week, including in the Eclipse. In fact, I named four horses to oppose generally, as I listed my running ratings on Friday.
Quote: ‘Are you fans of Decorated Knight, Churchill, Eminent and Jack Hobbs? They are rated much too highly by the Racing Post.’
And yesterday I warned: ‘Eminent is likely to use his energy far too soon.’ Eminent was fifth (‘took a keen hold’) and Decorated Knight sixth.
The Derby form remains suspect, though Cliffs Of Moher, the Epsom runner-up, comes out of the Eclipse with some credit in that he wasn’t really at the races but finished fourth.
Cliffs was clobbered early on, when Taj Mahal swerved and cannoned Decorated Knight into the Ballydoyle favourite who was all but brought down. It probably frightened the poor beast half to death.
Come the July Meeting (Thursday-Saturday) I will have to include lays in my tips again. They are part of the great betting shop in your office, front room or laptop called BETDAQ, where you can back or lay at will all day long in the most advantageous situation, not only of freedom to bet but of fantastic value.
The bookies were quite generous at Sandown yesterday, with Total SPs between 111 and 118%, half what they usually hit you with, but there was a massive 132% overround on the Old Newton Cup at Haydock.
By comparison, I could afford to back two in the Eclipse because the BETDAQ orange was 105%. Incredible value.
* Daqman betting plans and July Meeting previews next week
CHANCES HIGH GOING CLOCKWISE
2.55 Market Rasen Not a winning favourite in sight in the decade, and three of the last four to score in this have been aged 10, 11 and 12.
Twice a course winner, Highbury High (16.0 BETDAQ early mouse) appeals as successful four times out of five going right handed, whereas his anti-clockwise form is 1-20. The stable is 26% here.
3.30 Market Rasen Work In Progress would profit you 7.8 points for every 10 when I checked his BETDAQ offers. Banker to continue progress, with not much work to do against Nachi Falls (breaks blood vessels) and Magie Du Ma (beaten at least 16 lengths the last twice and needs soft ground).
3.35 Chantilly (Prix Jean Prat) Only a length and a head off Barney Roy at Royal Ascot, Thunder Snow – also second in the Newmarket Guineas – looks a good thing here. Or is he?
Virtually every three-year-olds Group race has seen something come and overtake the obvious, and unbeaten Trais Fluors is a late developer rising through the ranks: 2.7 on BETDAQ and hoping for slightly better
3.50 Ayr Keith Dalgleish has won this race three times in a row. He goes for the four-timer with Crazy Tornado, 12.0 in the BETDAQ orange as I write.
4.45 Limerick The Galway Plate Trial has us thinking of the big Ballybrit meeting in three weeks’ time. Don’t. None of the winners of this have gone on to even RUN in the Galway Plate. And there’s no sign of Dermot Weld, so it can’t be the real thing!
The King Of Brega won it by a mile last year off 123 with a 7lb claimer in the plate. Brian O’Connell, two out of three for the stable, is now in charge and ‘the King’ was back to form on the last day, a comfortable winner over hurdles.
On a line through Hash Brown, The King Of Brega (5.6 BETDAQ offers) has most to fear from his own stablemate Heron Heights (9.8 in the orange), who ran third in the Pat Taaffe Chase at the Punchestown festival.
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked to win 20 except the banker)
BET 1.25pts win and place HIGHBURY HIGH (2.55 Market Rasen)
BANKER: BET 20pts win (nap) WORK IN PROGRESS (3.30 Market Rasen)
BET 11pts win TRAIS FLUORS (3.35 Chantilly)
BET 1.75pts win and place CRAZY TORNADO (3.50 Ayr)
BET 4.25pts win THE KING OF BREGA, and 2.25pts win HERON HEIGHTS (4.45 Limerick)
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