DAQMAN HAS 28 SELECTIONS PLACED AT ROYAL ASCOT: 11 WINNERS: Daqman had three more winning bets on the final day at Royal Ascot, taking his score for the meeting to 13, with 11 winners and two place bets out of 28 selections in the frame in the 30 races run. It left him needing one more return to reach 40 wins against Pricewise of the Racing Post.
WON 13-2 SANGARIUS (2nd 7-2 Fox Chairman)
WON 6-1 DASHING WILLOUGHBY, Fortune Cookie (Queen’s Vase bull’s-eye nap at 14.0 BETDAQ)
WON 4-1 DAAHYEH
WON 7-2 BAGHDAD (2nd 7-1 place bet Ben Vrackie)
WON 7-2 CAPE BYRON (Wokingham winner)
WON 7-2 CLEONTE (third winning Fortune Cookie in the week)
WON 3-1 CRYSTAL OCEAN (Prince Of Wales’s Stakes)
WON 15-8 ARIZONA (Coventry Stakes)
WON 6-4 JAPAN (nap, King Edward V11 Stakes)
WON 1-1 STRADIVARIUS, Fortune Cookie (2nd 7-2 Dee Ex Bee, Gold Cup)
3RD 14-1 HIGHLAND CHIEF (place to win 10)
2ND 16-1 Clon Coulis and 3rd 8-1 Raising Sand (both Royal Hunt Cup)
Also: Star Catcher won 4-1, Guildsman 3rd 6-1, Elarqam 3rd 5-1, Jubiloso 3rd 9-2, Magic Wand 2nd 9-2, Rawdaa 2nd 4-1, Threat 2nd 4-1, Turgenev 2nd 7-2, Too Darn Hot 3rd 2-1, Fleeting 2nd 7-4, Lope Y Fernandez 2nd 5-4, Hermosa 2nd evens
PROFITS UPDATE:
➡️ Daqman 39, Pricewise 20 (152 points clear)
➡️ Naps: five winners out of eight (150 points up)
➡️ Supernaps: 12 out of 14 (150 points profit)
➡️ Bull’s-eye naps: four out of eight (161 profit)
TOMORROW: FORTUNE COOKIES Daqman’s Ascot wrap over two days continues tomorrow with an assessment of his Fortune Cookies after the big meeting for future investment.
IT’S DOUBLE-YOUR-MONEY BETDAQ
BIG winners were better on BETDAQ at Royal Ascot. Just two examples: the Queen’s Vase gamble on Dashing Willoughby (WON 6-1) was a Daqman bull’s-eye nap at a massive 14.0, an amazing double-your-money scenario.
If you think that’s out of this world for value, you would have been over the moon to have bet XSP, the unique BETDAQ starting price, on Jersey Stakes winner Space Traveller: 25-1 SP but 57.5 XSP. Again, more than double your money! Other big winners..
Trainers Aidan O’Brien (5) for £1,238,000 prizemoney, Charlie Appleby (3), Roger Varian (3), Andrew Balding (2), John Gosden (2), William Haggas (2), Mark Johnston (2), Sir Michael Stoute (2), who was second for prizemoney won.
Jockeys Frankie Dettori (7) for £1,481,000 prizemoney; Ryan Moore (5), Daniel Tudhope (4), James Doyle (3), Andrea Atzeni (2). Danny Tudhope finished 47 points in profit to £1 level stake on all rides.
Draw The results by stalls on the final day were 7, 8, 7, 9, 10, 10, and 15 winners in the five days came from gates 6 to 12. That’s 50%.
Records Blue Point became the first since Choisir (2003) and only the third in 99 years to win both the King’s Stand Stakes and the Diamond Jubilee at the same meeting.
Crystal Ocean was Sir Michael Stoute’s 80th winner at Royal Ascot. Just when Aidan O’Brien had closed the gap to 10 – with Japan his 70th – Stoute moved on to 81 with Sangarius.
Frankie Dettori was leading rider for the first time since 2004 but the best strike rate of 40% (4-10) was achieved by Danny Tudhope who even missed a day (Thursday) to ride four horses (one won) between William Haggas and David O’Meara at Ripon. Dettori has now ridden 67 winners at Royal Ascot.
Hayley Turner (on Thanks Be) became the second woman to ride a Royal Ascot winner after Gay Kelleway (1987).
Hard luck stories Nagano Gold was almost knocked over at the start of the Hardwicke Stakes but ate up the ground under Christophe Soumillon to be beaten just half a length by Defoe.
Ben Vrackie (Frankie Dettori) missed the break in the Duke Of Edinburgh Stakes but flew round the wide outside and just failed by a short-head.
All’s well that ends well: Silvestre de Sousa had four seconds from 24 starts at the meeting before winning on his 25th mount, Cleonte, in the very last race of the week.
Myths shattered ‘Epsom form from the hilly undulating track is not worth considering on the wide galloping expanse of Royal Ascot’: heard on a racing channel.
But nobody told Defoe and Pinatubo, who came from Epsom success on the same day at the Derby meeting to take the Hardwicke and the Chesham little more than an hour apart yesterday.
PENNY FOR MY THOUGHTS
4.00 Pontefract (Pontefract Castle Fillies’ Stakes) After a feast of Group races this week we do have one pattern race to look forward to on Sunday with this Listed contest.
Small fields are the order of the day at Pontefract but at least the big race has attracted a decent field and it looks competitive.
Five of the eight runners are last time out winners and the market is headed by Bayshore Freeway who won over 1m 6f at Chelmsford last time out.
Unsurprisingly, hailing from the Mark Johnston stable, she is having a busy season and a productive one too with three wins from five. All those wins however have come over 1m 6f and over this shorter trip she might be vulnerable to the John Gosden trained Hameem who was pretty impressive first time up this season when winning over today’s trip at Newmarket.
She’s now won her last three starts and is fancied to cope with today’s step up in grade.
4.25 Hexham Boltissime was narrowly beaten in two starts over hurdles in France and looks a very interesting recruit for Dr Richard Newland.
He makes his UK debut at a very modest level here and is taken to make a winning start.
Lord Roccoco chased home a 1/12 shot last time out here but the form is hard to quantify and a bigger danger may come from Huntingdon runner-up Rukwa.
5.05 Pontefract Gosden has chances of following up at Pontefract with Pennywhistle who is fitted with cheekpieces for the first time.
She has the most experience and a reproduction of her Goodwood third last time out should easily prove strong enough here. Her only win to date came in a similar small sized field at Newmarket.
The Michael Bell trained Bighearted looks the danger but it was a real blanket finish when she won at Windsor last time out (the 8th placed horse was only beaten 3 lengths!) and her starting handicap mark of 79 looks tough enough.
Similarly with Venusta who also scrambled home on Windsor debut on handicap debut and is up 3lb whilst Summer Bride makes her handicap debut but is weak in the market.
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked to win 20 points)
BET 4.4pts win HAMEEM (4.00 Pontefract)
BET 12.1pts win BOLTISSIME (4.25 Hexham)
BET 13.5pts win (nap) PENNYWHISTLE (5.05 Pontefract)
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