‘GLORY’ DOUBLE AT DONCASTER: Daqman made 20 points profit on the day yesterday with two top-priced winners at the opening of the Doncaster St Leger meeting:
WON 11-4 Cotai Glory
WON 7-2 Gannicus
IT’S DAQMAN 81, PRICEWISE 13: Daqman and his Racing Post value rival, Pricewise, both went for Cotai Glory, and the score for the season now stands at 81-13 to Daqman, 222-86 overall in 22 months. They clash again today in the 2.30 and 3.40 Doncaster
OUR JOY THE ‘HIDDEN HORSE’ AT BETDAQ 15.5
1.55 Doncaster: Maybe a useful stalls guide to Saturday’s Portland. A double-figure draw usually wins but, if not, stall 1 has scored twice in five seasons!
Jessie B Goode, Unilit and Sharaakah are pacesetters on the high side, with Fashionable Spirit and Pinky Promise leads to the low stalls. Take your pick for a first position that might be a trade later on.
I would opt for Fashionable Spirit at 19.5 on BETDAQ early mouse, who has had to face extremes of going the last twice – fourth on firm then second on heavy – and will surely trade shorter in running, ‘doing a Johnston,’ taking them all on.
Four of the last five winners had already raced in class 2 or higher, and 9st 3lb is the highest winning weight since the turn of the century.
Rebel Surge, Our Joy, Fashionable Spirit, Company Asset, Baby Ballerina and Greenfyre all fit the stats.
Our Joy is the hidden horse, running first time in a handicap after prepping on the AW, following on a big punt into 9-1 for the Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot: 15.5 this morning is far too big.
QUEEN TO REIGN OVER THE THREE-YEAR-OLDS
2.30 Doncaster (Sceptre Stakes) Another big-field cavalry charge, with the opener a possible guide to any stalls bias: middle to high is likely to be best.
There we find Fadhayyil (stall 16), whose trainer, Barrington Hills, has won this race five times. The 1,000 Guineas fifth did me a good turn in the City of York (Listed) Stakes last month, so this is a return to a fillies-and-mares-only race.
Three-year-olds are unbeaten in the Sceptre in nine seasons, and among them Excilly, Realtra and Terror have also scored at Listed level.
Marsh Hawk was fourth in the Fillies’ Mile as a two-year-old and, along with Lady Correspondent, was a Classic trialist in the Nell Gwyn Stakes.
But Marsh Hawk has been well behind Mistrusting since and Lady Correspondent remains dark, with just two races on her CV.
On York form, Mistrusting is weighted to run a dead heat with the older mare Dusky Queen who, in turn, is deadlocked with Kiyoshi on Goodwood form (Fadhayyil a nose behind).
If anything can stop the three-year-olds it’s Majestic Queen (12.5 on BETDAQ as I write), Group-3 winner at Lingfield in May (sold to Godolphin after), with last year’s Sceptre winner, Kiyoshi, well in rear.
She was Group-2 third at the Curragh and looked unlucky (bumped, had to be switched, beat en about two lengths), attempting the Group 1 at Deauville last month won by Muhaarar.
Freddy Head drops Pearly Steph (drawn 7) back to 7f for the first time since her debut, but I will stick to the high stalls and take Fadhayyil and Majestic Queen.
GRETCHEN BRED TO WIN THIS FILLIES’ ST LEGER
3.05 Doncaster (Park Hill Stakes) The fillies’ St Leger has been won four times each by Luca Cumani (Koora) and Sir Michael Stoute (Asyad), with three-year-olds beating four-year-olds 13-9 since it went all-aged in 1991.
Vive Ma Fille should take them along with Mill Springs, the is pacemaking for Gretchen, who meets Asyad for a second time.
On the July Course last month, Gretchen was the winner but Asyad was staying on as if today’s extra two furlongs would suit.
But that may be misleading, since Gretchen is the one related to animals who have done well at this trip and beyond, half sister to Irish St leger winner Duncan. Like him, she doesn’t do anything in a hurry.
There’s nothing in Koora’s pedigree that demands this kind of trip but her trainer knows what he’s doing, and her prep race has produced 10 winners of this. The snag (like Bue Waltz for the same stable, 4.50 race) is that the ground is likely to ride too fast for her.
Hidden Gold is the biggest threat to the Classic generaiton. But, intriguingly, she was narrowly beaten by a three-year-old handicapper in the Lillie Langtry (this trip) at Goodwood.
GO CD-STAR BOGART IN BIG-VALUE ORANGE
3.40 Doncaster We’ll stay with high stalls (a double-figure draw has won four years running) and I fancied Justice Lass (in 11) to redeem her nursery defeat on the last day, with Silvestre De Sousa now called in on this daughter of Canford Cliffs. Until I saw the market.
Her trainer, David Ellsworth, who has just won for me with Justice Day, is going for a four-timer after three winners in five days.
Projection (stall 16) was impressive at Windsor and not disgraced behind Tasleet – Richmond runner-up to Shalaa – on the last day.
Humphrey Bogart (stall 21) catches the eye, right down the bottom of the card, as a CD winner, fourth in the Acomb Stakes.
BETDAQ check: fields large or small, offers in the orange this morning ranged between 104 and 108%, marvellous value all day.
Justice Lass had drifted like a lonely dog on a raft, well over my betting weir at 52.0 this morning.
Projection still looked interesting win and place at 20.0 but most appeal in the form-book and in the market was for Humphrey Bogart (7.8). Here’s looking at you, kid!
CANYARI CAN BOUNCE BACK ON THIS COURSE
6.00 Doncaster (This Is The Ladbrokes Life Handicap) The getting-out stakes looks like a getting-into-more-trouble stakes, with 20-odd runners in a 6f dash.
But it’s one of those sprints which always goes to the top half of the handicap and, with the two David O’Mearas running over the wrong trip – Mister Bond prefers 5f, Regal Dan 7f – I fancy CD-winner Canyari and Sammy Jo Bell (14.5 offers taken) to bounce back after getting unbalanced early at Goodwood.
DAQMAN’S BETS (each bet staked to win 20 points)
HIDDEN HORSE: BET 1.3pts win and place OUR JOY, and 1pt win and place FASHIONABLE SPIRIT (1.55 Doncaster)
BET 5.8pts win FADHAYYIL and 1.7pts win MAJESTIC QUEEN (2.30 Doncaster)
BET 4.2pts win (nap) GRETCHEN (3.05 Doncaster)
BET 3pts win HUMPHREY BOGART, and 1pt win and place PROJECTION (3.40 Doncaster)
BET 1.3pts win and place CANYARI (6.00 Doncaster)
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