FOLLOW THE HOT STABLES TODAY: As Daqman spreads his stakes around four meetings today, he finds training records of 121211131 in a race at Newbury, 1101 at Leopardstown and 121100 at Epsom. He naps the leading yard at Haydock.
CAN DAQMAN ECLIPSE HIS RECORD? Look out tomorrow for the start of Sandown, which features the Eclipse Stakes on Saturday. Daqman is itching to bring back his bankers (currently 16 out of 20) and bull’s-eye bets (192 points in profit).
GOSDEN HEADING FOR £3m HAUL
Just how big is John Gosden’s 2014 season? The stable earnings are already nearly £1m up on 2013 at over £2m. And just look what’s to come: another £1m?
* Kingman The Irish 2,000 Guineas winner has the Sussex Stakes as his next target on the mile-championship map.
* Eagle Top His aims are the Great Voltigueur and York International after winning the ‘Ascot Derby’ (King Edward V11 Stakes).
* Romsdal Staying on third to Australia in the Epsom Derby, he could take in the Voltigueur or the International on his way to the St Leger.
* Taghrooda The Epsom Oaks winner has entries in the Irish Oaks, King George and Yorkshire Oaks.
And any one of the four could score at the British Champions meeting at Ascot later in the year; any one of them could be diverted to the Breeders Cup (that’s $1m for starters); and one of them, Eagle Top, might even develop into an Arc contender.
But don’t let John Gosden’s battle with Richard Hannon – yes, Team Hannon has also hit the £2m marker – blind you to the star striker of the season so far: Tom Dascombe, is already only seven winners behind his 2013 total with more than half the season to go.
Dascombe is leading trainer at Haydock today, where he saddles six runners, including the paper favourite in the sprint (3.20), which is a decent-looking class 4.
Less obviously, you should keep an eye on those behind on their usual season’s totals; they could come good in the second half of the season.
Ed Dunlop, for instance, has only just struck some form; and summer-autumn could see a big score from Luca Cumani who currently has only 13 turf winners, alongside last season’s total of 52. He has a burst of nine runners over the next three days.
DASCOMBE DREAM DAY AT HAYDOCK
2.20 Haydock Three-year-olds are three from four in this, and both Tom Dascombe’s All Reddy (8.2 on BETDAQ this morning) and the grey Watersmeet (3.2) return to the course and distance which saw them do well enough to win this.
2.50 Haydock Though Charles Hills clearly thinks a lot of Dutch Connection, which has had a run and is Group-1 entered, John Gosden’s War Front juvenile, Faydhan, was a very strong market order against the favourite this morning.
3.20 Haydock Tom Dascombe has a favourite’s chance with his AW-winning-filly Dreams Of Reality, again a three-year-old in an all-aged handicap, in which the ‘male’ horses have been gelded, barring the one entire, Minty Jones. I’d say they are all lacking in that department!
4.20 Haydock Even though I backed him in a big-field handicap at Royal Ascot, and he has a home reputation, I’d rather be a layer than a backer of Alex My Boy. He raced in snatches that day at Ascot and was beaten favourite at Musselburgh the race before that.
BETDAQ gives you every chance of finding value, with the four runners listed at a total percentage probability of only 106% in the orange.
But can we back the Dascombe front-runner, Ujagar? Can we go with a maiden, Altaayil? Or a filly, the maiden winner, Tiger Lily? They’re intriguing but, for me, all riskier than their odds.
7.00 Newbury Team Hannon is 121211131 in this, and their favourite, Crystal Malt, has the edge on experience. But you can’t back one Hannon without the other, Gen I Am: the yard beat its own favourite in the race last year with an 8-1 winner.
8.10 Newbury The best placings by a three-year-old in this over the last six seasons has been 113111, and I’m taking Alzanti and Frangipanni against the field.
I made out a case for Amanda Perrett’s Presto Volante yesterday and then opposed it; that’s my midweek form right now in a nutshell. But Amanda’s is red hot, with nine of her last 12 runners reaching the frame.
Alzanti has obviously had her problems with just the one run, but showed an impressive winning surge on Polytrack, and Frangipanni also came through in commanding style last time, as if she could shrug off a penalty and set up a sequence.
8.30 Leopardstown. Jim Bolger farms this race (form figures 1101) and saddles Teochrios back on the sound surface which saw her threeparts of a length better than Hangar Five at Fairyhouse.
Hangar Five is that much better in at the weights but may not forget the race in a hurry, with Danny Grant cautioned for excessive use.
8.50 Epsom Local trainer Simon Dow, who has won this three times (form figures 121100) since 2005, sends out Forceful Appeal, a good second over CD in this month last year.
Also second at this time – in fact, in this very race – was Good Luck Charm. Forceful Appeal and Good Luck Charm not only like the tricky track but both are well drawn on the rail.
DAQMAN’S BETS (each bet staked to win 20 points)
BET 9pts win WATERSMEET and 2.7pts win ALL REDDY (2.20 Haydock)
BET 5.5pts win (nap) DREAMS OF REALITY (3.20 Haydock)
BET 10pts win CRYSTAL MALT and 3pts win GEN I AM (7.00 Newbury)
BET 6pts win ALZANTI and 4.5pts win (stakes saver) FRANGIPANNI (8.10 Newbury)
BET 4pts win TEOCHRIOS (8.30 Leopardstown)
BET 4.5pts win GOOD LUCK CHARM and 2.3pts win FORCEFUL APPEAL (8.50 Epsom)
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