GALWAY NAPS HAT-TRICK LANDED: Daqman’s Galway Festival naps are unbeaten this week, after Time To Inspire yesterday romped home 10 lengths to land the hat-trick and complete a same-day naps double at Goodwood. The trio were:
WON 5-4 Bachasson (Monday)
WON 1-2 Long Dog (banker Tuesday)
WON 5-4 Time To Inspire (Wednesday)
FOUR HITS TO EARN 50 POINTS: After an 8-1 Goodwood winner on Tuesday, he landed an 8-1 shot at Galway yesterday among five successful bets, four of them winners, big BETDAQ value boosting the profit to 50 points on the day:
WON 8-1 Lilly The Lioness (11.0 on BETDAQ)
WON 7-2 Tazffin (7.5 on BETDAQ)
WON 5-4 Time To Inspire (Galway Nap)
WON 2-5 Solow (Goodwood gold banker nap)
GOODWOOD CUP VALUE TARGET: It’s currently 1-1 between Daqman and Pricewise in specified races for the Goodwood-Galway value challenge. Today: 2.05 Goodwood, 3.10 Goodwood Cup and 4.45 Galway Hurdle. English Flat season to date: Daqman 67, Pricewise 11.
SHALAA LOOKS ANOTHER FOR GOSDEN-DETTORI
2.05 Goodwood Mark Johnston has won this from top and bottom of the handicap – four successes since 2006 – and would you believe he’s got one three from the top of today’s handicap, one three from the bottom.
Resonant and Triple Dip are his selected from five left in for a race he’s won four times since 2006, but the expected gamble of the race is John Gosden’s Keble, the only one declared for the Golden Horn stable which has won this twice since 2007.
At 10.0 Resonant and 14.5 Triple Dip I’ll take Johnston to grab this from the front over Keble. It will be another thriller.
2.35 Goodwood (Richmond Stakes) Team Hannon (Log Out Island) is 1111231 in this since 2008, four of the winners favourite, and including very smart types like Dick Turpin and Ivawood.
But this time Gosden has the form in the book with Shalaa, who only had to be pushed out to win the July Stakes from Steady Pace, and is expected to go places. No heroics, Frankie!
PARIS CAN CRUSH THE PIPS FROM THE ORANGE
3.10 Goodwood Cup The official rating of the winner at the start of this race in the last four seasons – 113, 114, 115, 116 – suggests that this is a three-horse race, with Big Orange on 116 and both Trip To Paris and Sheikhzayedroad on 113.
Four-year-olds have won it only three times this century but Trip To Paris has every chance of emulating Double Trigger (1995) and winning here on the back of Gold Cup success; Yeats did it, too, but not until his third Gold Cup when he was seven.
On a line through Angel Gabrial, Northumberland Plate winner Quest For More can beat Oriental Fox, Eye Of The Storm and, on York form, Big Orange.
But there was transformation in Big Orange’s form when he won the Princess Of Wales’s Stakes at the Newmarket July Meeting, looking for all the world is if he could step up this half-mile and continue on the upgrade.
Trip To Paris has surged 18lb in the ratings since winning the Chester Cup and ultimately the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot, but Aussie Reigns, behind Eye Of The Storm, Big Orange and Scotland this season, was close up to Trip To Paris over 2m at Sandown in May.YThis is a very hard choice between three improving young stayers and even the best ‘book’ in the business – a 104% BETDAQ orange – can’t give me enough room to back them all.
So I must come down on the side of a Group-1 winner: Trip To Paris has done it in the big time and should beat the handicapper Quest For More, while Big Orange has to prove Newmarket was no fluke: he has already lost both his starts at 2m.
3.45 Goodwood (Lillie Langtry Stakes) Arabian Comet and Jordan Princess, third and fourth here at Goodwood in the same race in May, renew rivalry at the head of the market.
But, under a different ride – given her head, which will suit today’s track – Jordan Princess turned the tables on Arabian Comet at Newmarket and should continue on the upgrade.
GANGSTER A GOLDEN BANKER FOR GALWAY
1.50 Galway Breeder Patrick Kelly bids for a unique double. He won this last year with Aranhill Chief, first foal of one of his Aran-named mares; now here’s Aranhill Rascal, first foal of another one.
Points maiden Aranhill Rascal had his debut chase under Rules here on Tuesday when Dermot Weld’s Waaheb unseated rider.
Unique, or at least rare, if Willie Mullins won with As De Ferbet. It would give him all four opening races this week.
2.20 Galway Henry De Bromhead (12 placed out of 16 still standing) is in tremendous form and Jessica Harrington still celebrating Modem’s magic run under daughter Kate on the opening day.
The BETDAQ morning market says these two stables will battle out this novice chase with Rock The World and Sizing Platinum. I fancy Henry’s Sizing Platinum to wait close to Rock The World and catch him in the straight: 4.7 taken.
3.00 Galway David Marnane farms this race: he’s won it three times since 2010 and his yard is in good form.
But, having stepped up Amadaa from back-to-back sprint success at Dundalk, to 7f from the front on the last day, he now asks the eight-year-old another question: can he get this mile-plus?
Rock Critic has won four times at the festival, including this race in 2011, but is now 10, and another market rival, Cairdiuil is nine.
Shalamzar (6.6 on BETDAQ as I write) had Cairdiuil and Rock Critic behind last time he won and has a fair pull with Sophie’s World on their running at Leopardstown in the Spring.
Rock Critic’s Dermot Weld stablemate Roachdale House (13.0) is intriguing: raced in better class than this for Richard Fahey in England.
3.30 Galway Dermot Weld’s Galway dominance has dipped this week – just three wins in three days – and Tested has already been put in his place by a three-year-old at Leopardstown.
David Wachman has two fillies getting 12lb from Tested, the improver Gussy Goose and the Group-3 third Queen Nefertiti. At 7.0 and 9.0 respectively, I can bet that pair can stop Tested at better combined odds than her skinny 2.82 this morning.
4.05 Galway Fearachain, Full Cry and Gangster have all won comfortably at this trip, are all lightly raced and all getting weight from Sandymount Duke.
But there the comparison ends if the market – and my man in the long grass – is any guide. They’re screaming for the Gangster: banker, banker!
SNAKE EYES BIG AS A 16.0 THROW OF THE DICE
4.45 Galway Hurdle Thomas Edison, Bayan, The Game Changer and Hisaabat were the first four home last year on a similar surface. The Game Changer has been the improver since, but over fences not hurdles, and he has ground to make up over hurdles on Cheltenham Festival winner, Wicklow Brave, and on Quick Jack at both Leopardstown and Cheltenham.
But a line through Max Dynamite, fourth in the Cheltenham race, suggests that Snake Eyes and Pyromaniac have the edge after their Punchestown fone-two.
Diakali finally came good at Tipperary after being beaten only by the best at the big festivals of Cheltenham, Aintree and Auteuil.
Hidden Cyclone, back to hurdling, needs soft ground and the glass horse Quick Jack, better known on the Flat as runner-up to Trip To Paris in the Chester Cup, looks classy to be carrying such a light weight.
Rae’s Creek, stable companion of first-day winner Modem, first reserve here, has that ‘could be anything’ look. But Quick Jack (7.4 on BETDAQ as I write) and Snakes Eyes (a huge 16.0) look stand-outs in the handicap.
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked to win 30 points, unless stated)
BET 3.3pts win RESONANT and 2.2pts win TRIPLE DIP (2.05 Goodwood)
BET 8pts win SIZING PLATINUM (2.20 Galway)
BANKER: BET 20pts win (Goodwood nap) SHALAA (2.35 Goodwood)
BET 5.3pts win SHALAMZAR, and 2.4pts win and place ROACHDALE HOUSE (3.00 Galway)
BET 6pts win TRIP TO PARIS (3.10 Goodwood)
BET: 5pts win GUSSY GOOSE and 3.75pts win QUEEN NERFERTITI (3.30 Galway)
BET 6pts win JORDAN PRINCESS (3.45 Goodwood)
GOLD BANKER: BET 20pts win (Galway nap) GANGSTER (4.05 Galway)
BULL’S-EYE BETS (to win 50): 7.8pts win QUICK JACK and 3.3pts win and place SNAKE EYES (4.45 Galway)
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