FORTUNE COOKIES FOR GOLD CUP DAY: Three Fortune Cookies are named today for next Thursday at Royal Ascot. It’s all part of Daqman’s day-by-day previews seven days in advance.
TODAY: He has tips in his analysis of events at Nottingham, Newbury and Haydock today. The nap tonight was 5.8 this morning.
ROYAL ASCOT DAY-BY-DAY GUIDE
⭕ 2.30 Royal Ascot, next Thursday (Norfolk Stakes, 5f)
AGE: 2yo only.
LAYS LOGIC (FAVOURITE): Not one winning favourite going back 14 years; not a one!
DRAW: 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 10 have shared eight out of the last 12; stalls 1 and 2 have shared three others.
TRAINERS: Richard Fahey, Wesley Ward and Aidan O’Brien have each won twice in the decade.
FORTUNE COOKIE: Elite Status
SEE HOW THEY WON: Perfect Power (Richard Fahey), 14-1 Norfolk winner in 2021, went on to win last year’s Commonwealth Cup. Check out winners returning to the royal meeting.
THOROUGHBRED TOFF: Wesley Ward rates American Rascal ‘up there’ with 2013 winner of this, No Nay Never.
⭕ 3.05 Royal Ascot, Thursday (King George V Handicap, 1m 4f)
AGE: 3yo only
LAYS LOGIC (FAVOURITE): No outright favourite has won in 13 years (two joint)
WEIGHT: 10 winners out of 13 carried 9st or lower.
DRAW: 11 out of 13 had a double-figure draw.
TRAINERS: Mark Johnston 5, Sir Michael Stoute 4, John Gosden 2
⭕ 3.40 Royal Ascot, Thursday (Ribblesdale Stakes, 1m 4f)
AGE: 3yo fillies
FAVOURITES: 2-10
TRAINERS: Where the King Edward V11 Stakes is the Ascot Derby, this is the Ascot Oaks, invariably going to fillies from the top yards, with a high score to the Irish: John Gosden 4, Irish trainers 5 (including Aidan O’Brien 3)
FORTUNE COOKIE: Soul Sister
KEY DRAW: Only one winner higher than stall 6 in 14 seasons.
⭕ 4.20 Royal Ascot, Thursday (Ascot Gold Cup, 2m 4f)
AGE: Only two winners aged seven or over: Invershin (1929) and Yeats (aged 5, 6, 7 and 8). Four-year-olds are 7-10.
FAVOURITES: 7-10, including one jt; only one winner bigger than 13-2 at SP.
TRAINER: Aidan O’Brien 8, Saeed Bin Suroor 5, Mark Johnston 4, John Gosden 3.
FORTUNE COOKIE: Emily Dickinson
⭕ 5.00 Royal Ascot, Thursday (Britannia Handicap, 1m)
DRAW: 11 out of 13 from double-figure stalls.
WEIGHT: Nine winners out of 13 have carried less than 9st 1lb.
LAYS LOGIC (FAVOURITE): No favourite scored in the decade, and there were winners at 14-1, 18-1, 20-1, 25-1 and 28-1.
TRAINER: John Gosden 4, Mark Johnston 2, Sir Michael Stoute 2.
⭕ 5.35 Royal Ascot, Thursday (Hampton Court Stakes, 1m 2f)
AGE: 3yo only
TRAINER (10 years): Aidan O’Brien 2, Sir Michael Stoute 2
FAVOURITES: 4-11
DRAW: 10-11 single figures.
⭕ 6.10 Royal Ascot, Thursday (Buckingham Palace Handicap, 7f)
KEY DRAW: Winners by stall in six of last seven years: 29, 11, 32, 29, 26, 31.
WEIGHT: Nine out of 14 carried 9st or less.
LAYS LOGIC (FAVOURITE): No favourite scored last eight runnings; winners were 12-1 (twice), 14-1 (three times), 18-1, 25-1 and 33-1.
SATIRICAL SOLO FOR FRANKIE
⭕ 2.50 Newbury today Frankie Dettori has just two planned rides before Royal Ascot, Satirical in this one, A Dublin Lad at Sandown on Saturday.
Cheveley Park will be looking for black type for Kingman filly Satirical; she was unlucky not to win first time out.
There are a couple of winners in the field but the one I fear most is Sanction, first time out but with a good word from Newmarket.
Betdaq Betting Exchange 3.35 Satirical, 10 Sanction
CATCH ROMANCE FRESH..
⭕ 3.45 Nottingham: Juan Les Pins won four in a row last summer and finished his season, third, in the Ayr Gold Cup off 92.
His stable has suddenly hit form with eight winners in June already, striking at 37%, and Juan Les Pins is a pound below his Ayr mark.
He is one of only two CD winners in the field at class-3 level. The other one, Mokaatil, is eight now but has Harry Davies’ claim to help.
Another Romance hasn’t been seen for 250 days but has won after a long break, with wind surgery the key to rapid progress as a three-year-old, until hampered in a Listed behind Azure Blue, now a 114 sprinter.
Lethal Nymph is high in the handicap after back-to-back wins last autumn. Guliver hasn’t scored since 2020. Temple Bruer’s turf success is in class 4.
BETDAQ value 4.2 Another Romance, 5.4 Juan Les Pins
POPMASTER THE PICK AT 12.5
⭕ 4.00 Newbury Last year’s winners of the Stewards Cup and Ayr Gold Cup were rated 102 and 103, so I can’t see Popmaster (currently off 90) winning either of them, or even getting into them.
Popmaster has been beaten three lengths and three-parts of a length at Royal Ascot in the last two seasons, including 2022 second in the Wokingham off 98.
There’s no way he’ll get in the Wokingham next week, so we assume today is the grey’s ‘Wokingham’, with Billy Loughnane’s claim making him 8lb lower than his winning form.
As he’s matured, today’s 7f has become possible. Here’s his chance to change careers and use his lenient treatment, down to 87 from six races off 100 and 101.
BETDAQ value 12.5 Popmaster
IT’S THE COCKTAIL HOUR..
⭕ 7.10 Haydock Saffie Osborne has ridden 35 Ed Walker horses into a place (16 of them winners).
She takes over on Rum Cocktail, a scorer second run after a break on two occasions but her first race back this season – third at Ascot in May – was the filly’s best yet.
At age nine, Brian The Snail is unlikely to back up his win of last week under a penalty, and Dandy Dinmont is still a few pounds high in the handicap. BETDAQ value 5.8 Rum Cocktail
DAQMAN’S BETS
2.50 Newbury (win 10)
BET 4.25pts win SATIRICAL
BET 1pt win SANCTION
3.45 Nottingham (win 10 each)
BET 3pts win ANOTHER ROMANCE
BET 2pts win JUAN LES PINS
4.00 Newbury (win 20)
BET 1.75pts win POPMASTER
7.10 Haydock (win 12, nap)
BET 2.5pts win RUM COCKTAIL
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