NAP AMONG QUIDS-IN QUARTET: Daqman’s LUCKY day, a round-up of six meetings yesterday, produced winners at four of them for a total of 50 points profit. They included his nap at even money:
WON 15-2 FANFAIR (Lingfield)
WON 15-8 GOOD OMEN (Yarmouth, from 5.0 on BETDAQ)
WON 13-8 EYNHALLOW (Sandown)
WON evens THREE DUCHESSES (Catterick, nap)
TWO BANKERS LINE UP TODAY: Daqman does the rounds of five meetings today, afternoon and evening, with bets covering six hours’ racing at Chepstow, Doncaster, Hamilton, Leicester and Leopardstown. There are two bankers today. The nap is at Leopardstown tonight.
TIME FOR MORE THREE-YEAR-OLDS
What do these winners have in common? Fanfair, Good Omen, Golden Guest, Heart Stopper, Make Time, Mam’Selle, She’s So Flawless and Three Duchesses.
All were three-year-olds beating older horses across the cards at the six meetings yesterday. The Classic generation lost four races but won eight.
2.30 Hamilton Poet’s Time (5.8 offers) is the lone defender of the three-year-olds’ reputation in this one, after showing promise at Haydock following a seven-week layoff.
They don’t often win back to back at this level, and it may have been the soft ground that broke a losing sequence for Camanche Grey last time. Kodimoor has an offputting 1-23 strike rate.
So the danger to my selection is probably course-winner Picks Pinta (5.0 in the orange), third of 14 at Carlisle only seven days ago.
3.25 Chepstow You need a middle-to-high stall in this one and, when the race was split into two divisions last year, the two winners were drawn 10 and 15.
One of them, Prince Of Cardamom, has been lucky with the stalls bingo again today and is sure to attempt a repeat from stall 10. Yet 11.0 in the BETDAQ orange as I write.
3.35 Hamilton Mark Johnston has won four of the last eight runnings of this race, all with three-year-olds, and Hochfeld seems to be in unstoppable front-running form.
Compensating a rise of 6lb, the dual Chester winner is down in class, yet I could get around even-Stephens on BETDAQ this morning.
Those closest in the market this morning, both Tor and Warp Factor have won only their maiden, always a bad sign.
RYAN RIDE SPEAKS FOR PARLANCE
3.50 Leicester Ryan Moore had a lot of options today but has just two rides here at Leicester, and swerves all the evening fare, mainly to partner Parlance for Sir Michael Stoute. They have a 28% strike rate on this track as a combo.
4.10 Hamilton Second-season animals are six out of seven in this, suggesting a clash of the big two Northern yards of Richard Fahey (Rashford’s Double) and Mark Johnston (X Rated).
On recent form, X Rated, yet another Johnston to have made all, when winning at Bath on the last day, seems to be the one, though be warned that Rashford’s Double, who landed a hat-trick last backene but has struggled this season, may be a different proposition after being gelded.
Irish raider John Patrick Shanahan has won two of the last four renewals of this race, and Fivehundredmiles has really taken to this track since the applicaiton of blinkers. Can he catch 3-1 chance X-Rated, on whom Joe Fanning is 2-2?
7.50 Doncaster William Buick has two interesting rides for Godolphin (Piccola Collina 6.10 and First Voyage 8.20) and could also be one of the favourites for this one on Firefright, who returns to the scene of his maiden victory in the Spring. Now that Redgrave is off the mark, he could go on from there.
MELD THE DEAUVILLE TRICK!
8.00 Leopardstown (Meld Stakes) Deauville, around 4-5 on BETDAQ tonight, was a winner for my Fortune Cookies in the Spring – worth only a pound rise in his ratings – but his performance at Royal Ascot, third to Ribchester in the Group-1 Queen Anne, was considered his best yet and sent him up to 119 after he’d languished for a year on 113 since his 2016 Dante Stakes second.
The Grey Gatsby (116) is living in the past – last won in 2014 – while the old man of the party, Brendan Brackan (112), has done his best work recently but not above Listed level and not without soft ground.
Moonlight Magic has scored twice here over a similar trip to today’s but has been a nearly horse for more than a year now, and was still onepaced in first-time tongue-tie on the last day, albeit a length and a half up on Gatsby.
8.30 Leopardstown Santa Monica (4.8 on BETDAQ this morning) will appreciate the 1m 6f trip tonight if – here we go again – she can beat the three-year-olds, who bid for a race hat-trick. The form book says she can.
Santa Monica beat the 96-rated Butterflies a neck in the Munster Oaks, but tonight’s top rated of the second-season animals, Wild Irish Rose, is an 89, so theoretically 7lb inferior. Of course, young fillies can make a leap forward at this time, and she is nicely priced at 5.8.
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked to win 20)
BET 4pts win POET’S TIME (2.30 Hamilton)
BET 2pts win and place PRINCE OF CARDAMOM (3.25 Chepstow)
BANKER BET 20pts win HOCHFELD (3.35 Hamilton)
BET 12pts win PARLANCE (3.50 Leicester)
BET 6.5pts win X-RATED (4.10 Hamilton)
BET 4.5pts win REDGRAVE and 2.5pts win (stakes saver) FIREFRIGHT (7.50 Doncaster)
BANKER BET: 20pts win (nap) DEAUVILLE (8.00 Leopardstown)
BET 5.25pts win SANTA MONICA and 4pts win WILD IRISH ROSE (8.30 Leopardstown)
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