5-1 ORANGE BUT TOO MANY LEMONS! Daqman’s banker was beaten literally on the nod yesterday (Future Empire, 2nd 5-4, short-head) and he didn’t squeeze one in until Big Orange (WON 5-1) in the ‘Win £10,000,000 Betdaq Chester Stakes’.
NOW IT’S DAQMAN 98, PRICEWISE 36: But, in a clash with Pricewise at Sandown, he named Fintry (saver, WON 6-4). A winning saver counts only when his rival loses money on a race, so the reckoning is now Daqman 98, Pricewise 36. Other scores are:
PROFIT: Bull’s-Eye Bet 201 points
PROFIT: Banker (27 winners out of 40) 86 points
PROFIT: Nap in last 10 days 59 points (results 1211301212)
10 TOP RACES, EUROPE-WIDE: Daqman goes to Baden-Baden in Germany, Deauville in France, and Cork and The Curragh in Ireland to check out 10 top Sunday races, as the English Flat scene relies on 55 horses on a hilltop near Brighton.
GO GATEWOOD FOR GOSDEN AT DEAUVILLE
1.30 Deauville (Prix Quincey) William Knight had a hot spell of four winners out of eight last week, and Fire Ship tries to land back-to-back success in this Prix Quincey, which he won on similar heavy ground last year.
Spoil The Fun, placed in a Group 3 in June, and consistent handicappers My Stone and Roero also get their ground, as does four-time winner Solow, who fluffed his chance when stepped up to Group-2 level. Maybe he’ll do better back down a grade today.
2.05 Baden-Baden Cup Sir Mark Prescott, whose last two winners, Chinese Jade (WON 6-1) and Deauville Dancer (nap, WON 2-1), have been tipped in this column, saddles Athenian.
A soft-ground-winning mare, handicapper Athenian has twice failed to step up to Listed level and seems to have plenty to find here with the locals, like Takenja and Emerald Star (Listed winner at Lingfield).
Cape Factor won the Bosra Sham (Listed) at Newmarket last autumn but has not been seen since an inauspicious return for Rae Guest in May.
Ajaxana, winner of the German 1,000 Guineas, looks best, dropped back in trip after failing to stay in the German Oaks. Europe nap.
2.35 The Curragh (Flame Of Tara Stakes) David Wachman sent out Chrysanthemum to wint his and she went on to score twice at Group-3 level.
He saddles Legatissimo, winner of a top-line maiden at the Galway festival in front of Ballydoyle’s Together Forever. The Silver Flash winning filly, Jack Naylor, has to give weight away, which hands Legatissimo the edge.
2.40 Deauville (Grand Prix) This has gone to England twice this century and John Gosden tries to make it three with Gatewood, but a six-year-old has won only once in nigh on 40 years.
Racing Post ratings have him a few pounds behind all bar the three-year-old, Rio Tigre, who bids to make it a hat-trick in the race for the Classic generation.
In fact, Gatewood beat Rio Tigre on worse terms than this in another Deauville bog over CD three weeks ago, with Going Somewhere third.
That leaves him the task of beating Empoli, who has raced in Group 1 for most of the last 14 months but is unproven on today’s ground, and Cocktail Queen, winner of the Prix Gontaut-Biron (Group 3) over 10 furlongs here, also on bottomless ground.
Cocktail Queen (supplemented) has had just a couple of runs – first and second – since Jeff Smith moved her from David Elsworth to Madame Myriam Bollack-Badel in the Spring. She threatens Gatewood today.
3.05 The Curragh (Round Tower Stakes) The last two winners, Great White Eagle and Leitir Mor, were fanfared afterwards but the great white Ballydoyle hope never won again and Leitir Mor scored only once from 21 subsequent starts.
Ger Lyons will remind you that he won this on only her fourth start with Lightening Pearl before she took the Cheveley Park.
This time he runs a colt, Cappella Sansevero, who was winning on the soft in the Spring but sets the standard he e on his fast-ground Coventry Stakes second to The Wow Signal, winner of the Prix Morny last weekend.
He has stayed among the top flight of two-year-old in their top tests (Railway and Phoenix) without success and the Ascot accolade is beginning to wear thin,
And War Envoy well behind at Ascot, finished in front of him when they were third and fifth in the Railway Stakes on the firm. The cut in the ground may be the equaliser.
3.10 Deauville (Prix De Meautry) Team Hannon’s Coulsty, a 7f Listed winner at Newmarket on firm ground, looks an unlikely candidate for this on very soft, not the best surface for a son of Kodiac.
Aeolus was well behind Coulsty at Newmarket but stepped down a furlong and landed the Sandy Lane (Listed) on good to soft at Haydock Park on the last day of May. Unplaced in the Jersey Stakes at Royal Ascot since.
Zejel, in the frame at Group 1 and Group 3 level on soft-heavy, is a danger to all. There has been no three-year-old winner since the turn of the century.
Robert Le Diable has been supplemented for this after three from four easy wins on all sorts of ground, including in the Deauville mud. Who’d be a racegoer.. I bet they’re still charging £8 for a cup of coffee on the planks of Trouville.
HASANOUR HALFORD CAMBRIDGESHIRE HIT
3.35 The Curragh Ballydoyle goes for a hat-trick in this Group 3 (three-year-olds six out of seven) after their double with the tersely named pair, Up and Say.
Afternoon Sunlight, Carla Bianca and Palace are all of a heap after their one-twos at Leopardstown and Naas. Pat Smullen prefers Carla Bianca over Afternoon Sunlight and the drying ground is in her favour.
3.50 Cork (J P McManus Rated Hurdle) Charlie Swan’s horses are sailing at the moment and the word is that The Game Changer can be a life changer for punters this season.
Strangely, J P McManus horses fail to appear in this, and The Game Changer is with his ever-present main rival for the Irish owners’ championship, Gigginstown House
4.05 Baden-Baden (Golden Whip) Those who follow supplemented horses (Cocktail Queen, Robert le Diable at Deauville) have a third one here, Big Time for Ireland’s John Joseph Murphy in a not-so-tough sprint.
Blinkered first time, the colt was unplaced in the Irish 2,000 Guineas and the Jersey Stake,s but was placed in both Phoenix and Railway top two-year-old stakes races last season. Filip Minarik, the Ryan Moore of German riders, has been booked.
4.35 The Curragh (Irish Cambridgeshire) Only one winner has broken the 9st barrier in seven years, in which winners have been returned at 25-1 (twice), 20-1, 16-1 (twice) and 12-1.
Mick Halford knows the time of day in this (he won it in 2006 and 2010) and was in form at the last Curragh meeting when he landed Raydara winner of a Group 2.
In all bar one of the last five seasons, the first two have come from stalls no higher than 11, and there in 11 gate is Mick’s Galway winner, Hasanour, who gets into this by following up over today’s CD eight days back.
DAQMAN’S SELECTIONS (Europe)
BADEN-BADEN: 2.05 Ajaxana (nap), 4.05 Big Time
DEAUVILLE 1.30 Fire Ship, Solow; 2.40 Gatewood, Cocktail Queen; 3.10 Zejel, Robert Le Diable.
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked to win 20 points, unless otherwise stated)
BET 8.5pts win LEGATISSIMO (2.35 The Curragh)
BET 15pts win LOCHALSH (4.00 Brighton)
BET 10pts win CARLA BIANCA (3.35 The Curragh)
BET 12pts win (nap) THE GAME CHANGER (3.50 Cork)
BULL’S-EYE BET (to win 50) 8.5pts win HASANOUR (4.35 The Curragh)
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