BOWLING YORKERS AT GOODWOOD! Daqman turned to Goodwood to cap his big-hitting York week with a Saturday nap and double. He remains at Goodwood for more big odds including a bull’s-eye bet today but naps at Naas and has a Fortune Cookie running at Deauville.
WON 15-8 GOODWOOD ODYSSEY (Saturday nap)
WON 15-8 GOOD EARTH (Saturday)
WON 25-1 CANOODLED (Friday) BETDAQ 31.0
WON 6-1 SHADOW DANCE (Friday) win-50 bull’s-eye
WON 3-1 CONTENT (Thursday)
WON 14-1 EXTENSIO (Wednesday)
WON 10-1 JM JUNGLE (Wednesday)
ALL EYES ON O’MEARA
IT would be poetic justice if David O’Meara won the 3.35 handicap at Goodwood today.
All he needs is luck in running for Darkness from stall 3 under in-form Tom Marquand.
My first choice for the Ebor, his five-year-old Epic Poet, was badly hampered and his gate 16 swallowed up as low numbers triumphed again, with the order-in by stall: 1, 8, 10, 16, 2, 9, 5.
O’Meara also has a big chance with Night Eyes in the Ballyogan at Naas. Sunday best races to check out today are:
COME ON, MY SONS!
⭕ 2.25 Goodwood David Menuisier landed a double here yesterday and, though Toimy Son won at Goodwood on firm ground at the beginning of the month on stepping back up to a mile, there is potential over further and on soft ground.
In fact, Menuisier has him marked down for another furlong still, in the Cambridgeshire, and Toimy Son’s younger days saw him win on soft and heavy at Deauville and Chantilly, tackling Group 1 and winning a Listed. BETDAQ 5.8 this morning.
Godwinson was beaten just half a length in the Newbury Spring Cup on a softish surface.
NIGHT-TIME ONE-TWO
⭕ 3.07 Naas (Ballyogan Stakes) William Haggas raided Naas with the Frankel filly Perfect News to win this as a three-year-old off 98 two years ago.
He sends the mare Pink Crystal to do the business today, rated 100, but three-year-olds again look hard to beat, including Nighteyes (99) from the Yorkshire-based Irishman, David O’Meara.
Haggas and O’Meara have bagged two top jockeys in Chris Hayes and Colin Keane, both winners of this, Hayes for Haggas on Perfect News.
Nighteyes (out of 9) readily beat Over The Blues here in July, with Apricot Ice not well drawn in 2, finishing 8th up the centre of the course.
Unlucky was Dance Night Andday, 4th, saved up for a run but not into the clear until the final furlong. Navassa Island was 5th. BETDAQ 11.0 today.
Out of 2 today is the improver Firebird, who has won the last two of only three career starts. You Send Me’s best Group-race runs have been on soft; she has won only her maiden, always a bad sign.
DELIGHT A HOT COOKIE
⭕ 3.25 Deauville FORTUNE COOKIE James’s Delight returns to the CD of his Listed success in July, which gave him four wins out of six, starting off on 88 in a Pontefract class-3 handicap.
Now with a mark of 110, James looks set to step into Group territory in another shrewd piece of placing by Clive Cox, who bagged the Half-million Sales race at York with Diligently and was third in the International with Ghostwriter, the ‘nearly horse’ of the year, fourth in the Newmarket Guineas and French Derby, third in the Eclipse.
The home hero against James’s Delight is Beauvatier, four in a row last year, a Group 3 among them.
That was 7f; so, too, his Lagardere third to Rosallion and his Jean Prat third this July.
His best race so far may have been his third, albeit at almost four lengths, to the unbeaten firebrand, Lazzat, in the Maurice De Gheest.
However, with his form-figures now 3-2033, he has to be marked down, disappointing.
Karl Burke with Spycatcher, David Loughnane with Go Bears Go and Archie Watson with Saint Lawrence have older horses in the mix, also without recent winning form.
DARKNESS 18.0 BULL’S-EYE
⭕ 3.35 Goodwood David OMeara has won this 7f handicap twice in the last four years, both with horses drawn 1.
His winner last season, Rhoscolyn, has course form of 1230310110 but is now out in stall 11 and high in the handicap.
Another O’Meara, Darkness, with a better draw out of gate 3, has Tom Marquand booked. Fourth in the Golden Mile here when a bit short of room, yet 18.0 this morning.
In the adjacent stall, Qirat is a Goodwood winner but has not enjoyed soft ground before. Not much between that one and Blue Prince on Spring form over the CD here.
Metal Merchant finished close up in the Royal Hunt Cup and the International Handicap, both at Ascot, but now seems a pound or two high.
Rebel Territory won 2-2 after a long break last Spring but is 10lb higher and probably needs to shed a few pounds before the autumn handicaps at Ascot and Newmarket.
DAQMAN’S BETS
2.25 Goodwood (win 20)
BET 4pts win TOIMYSON
BET 3pts to win 10 GODWINSON
3.07 Naas (win 20 nap)
BET 8pts win NIGHTEYES
BET 2pts win DANCE NIGHT ANDDAY
3.25 Deauville
FORTUNE COOKIE
BET 20pts win JAMES’S DELIGHT
3.35 Goodwood (win-50 bull’s-eye bet)
BET 3pts win and place DARKNESS
BET 1pt to win 12 (saver) RHOSCOLYN
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