16.0 BETDAQ BONUS AS DAQMAN LANDS TWO CUP WINNERS: Big-race king Daqman set out to land the three Cup winners between York and Newmarket yesterday, and ended up with two of them, including a 16.0 BETDAQ outsider, and had the third one in the frame at big odds (Dance And Dance (4th 14-1). His winners were:
16.0 DANCHAI (WON John Smiths Cup, SP 10-1); three bets. Profit 21 points.
6.2 LETHAL FORCE (WON July Cup, SP 9-2); three bets. Profit 21.70
8-1 SCORER IN ANOTHER ONE-TWO: He was landing a second big-race one-two, when he put Danchai and Stencive (2nd 6-1) together yesterday, following on Maputo (WON 8-1) with Red Avenger (2nd 8-1) on the opening day of the July Meeting.
It’s 36.0 the Derby winner for the Arc. Where the Epsom hero was once supreme – truly Ruler Of The World – he is now an also-ran within the month, a rank outsider in the BETDAQ market for Longchamp.
I warned you – and myself, for my own betting purposes – that the long, wet winter would result in late developers on the Classic and international scenes.
But I had no idea that they would leapfrog each other so quickly, that so many swans would be geese in a matter of weeks.
I latched on to seven-times-a-winner Novellist after his Grand Prix De Saint-Cloud but he, too, has slipped over the betting weir (42.0 as I write) as a river of talent has emerged: Al Kazeem, Intello, Treve and now Flintshire in the ‘real French Derby’.
Intello won at Chantilly but that was 10 furlongs and yesterday’s 1m 4f Grand Prix De Paris produced a seemingly stunning performance from Flintshire, an Andre-Fabre-trained son of Dansili out of a Sadler’s Wells mare.
The third horse home, Ocovango, finished around the same distance off Flintshire as he had been behind Ruler Of The World at Epsom, though with the Epsom fourth, Battle Of Marengo, only seventh of eight.
And Ocovango is another Fabre colt, so serves only to support the conviction that France has not one over us but two or three, with Flintshire, Intello and the Diane heroine, Treve.
A strict reading of the form at the Curragh and at Longchamp suggests that very much depends on the targets for Trading Leather, currently a similar price to Novellist for the King George after beating Ruler Of The World out of sight in the Irish Derby.
Whatever happens, we have to accept that the Arc De Triomphe is – and will be more so this year – the supreme accolade, with too-soon-in-the-season Epsom slipping further down the rankings.
Incidentally, the Racing Post website heading for yesterday’s heroics (‘Flashy Flintshire lands Grand Prix De Paris’) is a sub-editor’s boob: ‘flashy’ has always been a derogatory term for horses with excess markings, not much admired and associated with high head action, tail-swishing types.
With all the racing crowded into one day yesterday, the jockeys lost out – having to choose between one big meeting or another – and so did the serious punter, with so little time between races.
If we are to put all our chocolates in one Saturday box, we English might take a leaf from the Irish book and try an evening Classic or major race. Staggered times must be brought in if yesterday is to be repeated in future Calendars.
DAQMAN’S BETS: (each bet to win 20 points)
BET 0.8pts win and place WINGED FARASI (2.40 Southwell)
BET 4.3pts win WESTERN HIGH and 2pts win GEMINUS (3.10 Southwell)
BET 9pts win SOLARAS EXHIBITION (3.20 Stratford)
BET 12pts win (nap) CUT THE CARDS (4.10 Southwell)
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