GUIDE TO THE FIRST CLASSIC: Who’s going to win the Guineas. Daqman checks out the stats and places the runners in ABC order of their known abilities. His final verdict on the race will appear on Saturday. Tomorrow: 1,000 Guineas ABC.
A YANKEE ACROSS THE CARDS: After an 11-4 winner on Wednesday, Daqman made another profit on the day yesterday with Mutarakez (WON 4-1). Today he has a bet at each of Chelmsford, Lingfield, Musselburgh and Redcar. What a yankee!
THE 2,000 GUINEAS: EASY AS ABC?
A Winners already at least twice (9/10)
B Winners as 2yo of National Stakes (3), Coventry (2), Beresford, Chesham, Dewhurst, Racing Post Trophy, Royal Lodge Stakes
C Seven out of 10 rated 110 or higher
D Won over at least 7f as 2yo (8/10)
+ (plus) Trained in Ireland (9/14)
– (minus) American bred (only 1-27 in the frame)
X Seven out of 10 from stalls 2 to 8 (not yet available)
ABBCD+ Saxon Warrior
Unbeaten in three starts; won the Beresford and the Racing Post Trophy (from Roaring Lion). The dam, Maybe, won the Chesham and the Moyglare, but faded in her second season.
ABCD-+ U S Navy Flag
American bred, brother to Group-1 three-year-old Roly Poly. Dewhurst winner who didn’t like it heavy behind Gustav Klimt in the Leopardstown 2,000 Trial.
ABCD- Roaring Lion
Three in a row including the Royal Lodge Stakes but pipped by Saxon Warrior in the Racing Post Trophy and outpaced, seemingly short of work, when third to Masar in the Craven Stakes.
ACD+ Gustav Klimt
Won a Group 2 at Newmarket last autumn and quickened off heavy to score in the Leopardstown 2,000 Guineas Trial.
ACD Elarqam
Best bred in the field, by Frankel out of a mare who won at Group-1 level five times. Eased down to beat Tip Top Two at Newmarket in the autumn
ACD Expert Eye
Scintillating at Goodwood but finished lame when odds on for the Dewhurst (won by US Navy Flag from Mendelssohn, who has won the UAE Derby this Spring).
ACD Hey Gaman
Led and battled on gamely when third in the Greenham to James Garfield and Expert Eye
ACD James Garfield
Beat Expert Eye, Hey Gaman and Raid with a tough performance the Greenham.
ACD Masar
Third in the Lagardere, sixth behind Mendelssohn in the Breeders Cup Juvenile (Turf) but came good in the Craven Stakes over the Guineas CD (Roaring Lion only third).
AB Rajasinghe
Coventry Stakes winner whose form fell away after that, down the field in the Middle Park and Breeders Cup.
AC Cardsharp
Precocious two-year-old, third in the Norfolk Stakes and the Gimcrack, winner of the July Stakes from U S Navy Flag and Rajasinghe but U S Navy Flag reversed the form in the Middle Park and the Dewhurst.
A Nebo
Runner-up to Gustav Klimt on the July Course and third to James Garfield in the Mill Reef before taking the Horris Hill on soft. Bags of stamina and has had a run.
AD Tip Top Two
Never out of the frame and won four. Second to Elarqam in a Group 3. Back-to-back wins in Qatar over the winter.
A Headway
Coventry Stakes second to Rajasinghe and third in the Gimcrack. Winning return on Polytrack. Needs fast ground.
A -+ Murillo
American bred, third to Rajasinghe in the Coventry Stakes and Railway Stakes third when favourite may have come too soon..
= Raid
Doncaster maiden winner who was fourth to James Garfield in the Greenham, keeping on, and a wellbacked outsider this week.
MAKSAB A THREAT TO COMPLETION
3.40 Redcar William Haggas is 2-2 in this kind of race at Redcar (45% here overall), and Completion (big at 6.4 on BETDAQ this morning) has been given plenty of experience ahead of this Flat-turf and handicap debut.
Whether sprint-bred Poet’s Prince continues to thrive at a mile is debatable, with his form at the distance so far in small fields.
The buttons were pressed from the start when Sha La La La Lee was equipped with a hood at Wolverhampton.
Maksab (5.3 offers) ended last season in class 2, and has had a run back in the wide open spaces of Newmarket. Mick Channon has had five winners in six days.
4.00 Lingfield There are the good, the bad and the ugly at this level, but Kempton 6f winner Sergio Leone should improve for the step up in trip.
A 4.0 BETDAQ offer, Insurgence is 2-2 in CD handicaps at Lingfield, unbeaten since gelded, and by a stallion whose progeny get better with age.
Epic Fantasy cost his backers last year with 222 bridesmaid form figures. Central City got into the same rut, and Hugo Palmer hopes that cheekpieces will help.
NAP MUST GO ON ACEY-DEUCY DOYLE
7.20 Chelmsford Star journeyman or what! James Doyle has had winners with nine different trainers in the last five days, with form figures 11211211111221. None out of the first two. Not a one.
He has five rides tonight, three for William Haggas, who gives him the leg up here on Seniority, favourite as I write at 3.55.
The 11 horses this one beat at Kempton are all winners before or after that race. He’s down in trip here but clearly has speed and form in depth.
Constantino dropped from class 2 just once in six races since last July and scored at Lingfield, but he was too easy too back this morning at 8.8.
War Glory got into the bridesmaid rut last year (22322 among his form figures since being gelded) and Able Jack is tongue-tied today, trying to squeeze one more win out of him, after three from four starts.
8.10 Musselburgh You wouldn’t have thought it, with all the bad weather of the last few weeks, but Isntshesomething, who won this last year on firm ground, returns to do the double with a welcoming ‘good, good to firm’ going forecast: 13.0 on BETDAQ.
DAQMAN’S BETS (all staked to win 20)
BET 3.75pts win COMPLETION (3.40 Redcar)
BET 6.5pts win INSURGENCE (4.00 Lingfield)
BET 7.75pts win (nap) SENIORITY (7.20 Chelmsford)
BET 1.5pts win and place ISNTSHESOMETHING (8.10 Musselburgh)
DAQ MULTIPLES: Half-point win yankee the four above.
Did you know that as well as checking the realtime prices on BETDAQ below – you can also log into your account and place your bets directly into BETDAQ from BETDAQ TIPS.
