HALLELUJAH! IT’S A 16-1 WINNER FOR DAQMAN: Daqman based his Saturday tips on the forecast of ‘90% chance of rain’ at Newmarket but, though it didn’t arrive, he managed to bag his usual Saturday big-odds winner, Hallelujah (WON 16-1) at Newbury.
HE GIVES THE 1-2-3 AT NEWMARKET: And it didn’t stop him giving first, second and third with his three selections for the King Charles Stakes at Newmarket: Dundonnell WON 15-8, Music Master 2nd 12-1, Baltic Knight 11-4.
14-1 SCORER WAS 24.0 ON BETDAQ: He also tipped Prince Of Arabia (WON 14-1 from 24.0 on BETDAQ) but forgot to list it in his bets beneath the column, which cost him a good overall profit on the day’s account. Ouch!
Oh Lucky Jim, how I envy him! Can you imagine owning or training the Derby favourite and then watching his inferior stablemates run second in two top trials.
Talk about sighters! Trading Leather was runner-up in the Dante – and a hell-for-leather race he ran, too! – and stablemate Loch Garman was runner-up to Battle Of Marengo in the Leopardstown Derby Trial.
It means that gentleman Jim Bolger knows the time of day for Dawn Approach with, collaterally, most of the Derby field, without even putting a saddle on the favourite since he won the Guineas.
The Dante was won by another New Approach colt, Libertarian, and I am going to shock my reader now by naming him as my best outsider for Epsom.
The Dante is most often the best trial and this colt was so green he didn’t know he was at the races until, in the final quarter mile, Joseph O’Brien took the Ballydoyle runner, Indian Chief, round the field, expecting to meet no resistance.
But, as if to say, ‘I can do that’, the penny dropped with Libertarian: he went with him on his outside of the pack, suddenly galvanizing his stride and taking the race apart.
Libertarian ran on in overdrive as if he could take on the Epsom hill with no trouble, and I had a wee win punt last night at 21.0 on BETDAQ, my intention being to back him strongly for a place when the great day dawns at Epsom.
Not since Dante, himself, in 1945 has a Northern horse won the blue riband of the turf, nor has the Oaks gone North since Bill Elsey’s Pia in 1967, Dante and Pia having been ridden by the great northern jockeys of their day, Willie Nevett and Edward Hide, respectively.
A third great northern rider of the good old days, Edgar Britt – a Yorkshire-adopted Aussie – won the 1,000 Guineas on Musidora (Charles Elsey, 1949) and later landed back-to-back St Legers.
Mark Johnston with Mister Baileys (1994) was the first Yorkshire trainer since Charles Elsey’s Nearula (1953) to win the 2,000 Guineas, though Scotland had routed the South with George Boyd’s outsider Rockavon (1961).
But Libertarian’s rarity value as a Classic winner for the North would be as nothing compared to his winning the Derby for a woman trainer.
Elaine Burke would be unique in racing annals, though of course the Grand National broke male domination of jumps racing through Jenny Pitman and this year Sue Smith.
The Libertarian Dante form has yet to be franked, though Jim Bolger, himself, has gone some way to doing say by nominating the runner-up Trading Leather for the French Derby and declaring after the Dante: ‘I couldn’t be more pleased with him.’
Once again, one of the North’s great races will play a hand in a Derby. It might even win two of them, one at Epsom and one at Chantilly. But just the one, if Jim Bolger has anything to do with it!
DAQMAN’S BETS
BET 7.4pts win HOUSEPARTY (2.30 Market Rasen)
BET 4.2pts win ATHENIAN and 2.4pts win MISPLACED FORTUNE (3.10 Ripon)
BET 3.8pts win PACHA DU POLDER and 3.2pts win GENTLEMAN ANSHAN (3.20 Stratford)
BET 2.4pts win HIT THE JACKPOT and 0.8pts win (stakes saver) FRONTIER FIGHTER (3.40 Ripon)
BET 8.8pts win (nap) AEGAEUS (4.10 Ripon)
DAQ MULTIPLES: 2pts win treble SEARCHLIGHT (2.10 Ripon), DALIANCE (2.20 Stratford) and AEGAEUS (4.10 Ripon)
ANTE-POST: WIN-40 BET 2pts win LIBERTARIAN (Epsom Derby, June 1).
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