ANYONE FOR TENNIS! DAQMAN SERVES ANOTHER ACE: Daqman yesterday revealed one of his tipping methods and used it immediately to land a supernap at marginally odds against on BETDAQ in the morning. Bath And Tennis was an ace! His second in two days, in fact, and he tries for a hat-trick today.
WON 8-11 Bath And Tennis (supernap from 2.08 BETDAQ)
WON Evens Louis Treize (high-stakes nap, Tuesday)
KING GEORGE ABC GUIDE: Daqman starts today’s column with an ABC Guide to Saturday’s eight-runner King George at Ascot. The ground is firm but heavy rain could arrive any time on Saturday, so Cracksman is left in.
KING PRIZE A DROP IN THE OCEAN
A Aged 3 or 4 (100%)
B Group 1 or 2 winner (100%)
C Rated 118 to 128 (80%)
D Already a winner over 1m 4f (87%)
E Trained Stoute (5) or Aidan O’Brien (4)
X Stable in form
3.35 Ascot, Saturday (King George V1 and Queen Elizabeth Stakes)
ABCDE Crystal Ocean
Three wins in a row (last two on firm) and never out of the frame in nine starts, improving all the time. St Leger second, winner of the Hardwicke Stakes but no Group 1 to date.
ABC Cracksman
The 2017 Irish Derby runner-up and Great Voltigeur winner who slammed Poets Word seven lengths in the Champion Stakes (soft) but only narrowly beat Salouen in Coronation Cup this Spring and Poets Word reversed the form on firm at Royal Ascot.
ABDE Hydrangea
Fillies and Mares Champion at Ascot last backend (soft), scoring three times last year (7f, a mile and 1m 4f) but beaten both runs this season at a mile, though dropped back to Group 2.
ABDE Rostropovich
Futurity winner and National Stakes third (both on soft) as a two-year-old, won a modest Dee Stakes at Chester but seconds on firm in both the ‘Ascot Derby’ (King Edward V11 Stakes) and the Irish Derby, with the Ascot winner behind him at the Curragh.
ABD Coronet
The 2017 Ribblesdale winner in a long season including second to Enable in Yorkshire Oaks and third to Hydrangea in the Fillies and Mares. Looked stronger this season when winning at York (Group 2) and was narrow second in the top-grade Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud.
AC Salouen
One of the nearly horses of all time, has never won above class 4 yet here he is rated 118 after 18 starts. Hardly credible.
Placed in the Lagardere, Racing Post Trophy, Coronation Cup, and Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud. Has never won beyond 1m but ran Cracksman to a head on soft (1m 4f).
BCDE Poets Word
Further evidence of Sir Michael Stoute’s immense skill at improving an older horse. Beaten in a handicap off 86 in 2016 now finds himself nearly 40lb higher as a 126-rated, with a 10-furlong double this Spring in the Brigadier Gerard and the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes (slammed Cracksman who had beaten him in the Champion Stakes last October).
D Desert Encounter
Has raced against the best but the best have always beaten him, including Cracksman and Poets Word twice. Connections insist that he’s a late maturer but the handicapper disagrees: he’s dropped him 2lb for his last seven tries, and he’s started 66-1, 50-1, 40-1 and 33-1 (twice) as if no one on the inside really believes their own claim. Officially a stone behind Poet’s Word.
PATCHOULI THREAT TO PELOSA
2.20 Sandown (Star Stakes) There are two classy two-year-olds races at Sandown and Leopardstown today.
Mark Johnston won this with a good sort, Fireglow, in 2015. He has managed to squeeze in a confidence booster for Octave after she finished a good 10 lengths adrift of the Albany winner when La Pelosa was runner-up.
La Pelosa was then bumped and badly hampered in the Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes at the July Meeting. She’ll be all the rage to redeem herself here but Octave has the advantage of the one stall, which has won this race three times in the decade.
Richard Hannon took this last year with a subsequent Sweet Solera winner, who was second this season in the Fred Darling.
His youngsters usually need a run but Ajrar looked strong and confident when she saw of her Lingfield rivals first time out, albeit the favourite underperformed.
Patchouli won well over 6f on the last day when youi consider how green she was on her debut and how her breeding shouts stamina on both sides of the pedigree.
With both Charlie Appleby and Mick Channon blessed with a golden bunch of juveniles this season, La Pelosa and Patchouli interest me most.
La Pelosa was 1.77 this morning, with Patchouli 18.0 and 4.9 a place.
3.45 Worcester I went for a 10-gets-you-seven bet on Drovers Lane, with trainer Rebecca Curtis and jockey Adrian Heskin both in top form, and 2-2 together.
Drovers Lane took a big step forward when encountering firm ground at Uttoxeter on the last day and is expected to follow up.
IS MORAVIA THE REAL GODDESS?
6.35 Leopardstown (Silver Flash Stakes) The Fortune Cookies have been waiting for Moravia, an impressive CD winner here over Secret Thoughts before that one toyed with a big field of maidens under hands and heels riding at Naas.
Moravia now has to deal with Secret Thoughts’ Ballydoyle stablemate Goddess, who hacked up in her maiden here.
Aidan O’Brien has played some hot little numbers among six winning fillies of this race in nine seasons, among them Together, second in two Guineas; Moyglare winner Maybe; and Moyglare and Lagardere winner Happily.
Goddess is going to be around 2-1 on this morning, and I could get 3.1 Moravia a place on BETDAQ to finish first or second. Win offers were around 10.5.
DAQMAN’S BETS
2.20 Sandown (each bet to win 20)
BET 1.25pts win and 5pts place PATCHOULI
3.45 Worcester (SP)
SUPERNAP BET 20pts win DROVERS LANE
6.35 Leopardstown (each bet to win 10)
BET: 1pt win and 5pts place MORAVIA
DAQ MULTIPLES (4 x 1pt win trebles)
LA PELOSA and PATCHOULI (2.20 Sandown)
x
DROVERS LANE (3.45 Worcester)
x
GODDESS and MORAVIA (6.35 Leopardstown)
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