A 4-1 WINNER FOR DAQMAN: It’s all about raiders, starting with the one that won at 4-1 last night that paid for Daqman’s Wednesday bets. Tomorrow Daqman completes his four-day Arc de Triomphe preview with form and facts about the contingent of Irish raiders.
WON 4-1 NIGHT RAIDER
TODAY’S BETS: Daqman finds three mud-lovers at Salisbury, one at 8.7, ridden by Oisin Murphy, one an Arc winner’s daughter.
IT’S THE GREAT ARC AVENTURE
⚠️ UPDATE Then there were two. England’s Arc de Triomphe ‘team’ has doubled! Two instead of one, with Bluestocking ridden by Rossa Ryan joining Sunway, so a filly and a colt.
Ralph Beckett’s Bluestocking is officially rated 118 and has won the Arc trial for her sex, the Prix Vermeille, on the soft.
She was driven out to beat the French filly, Aventure, who had previously won fillies’ and mares’ races at the trip, the Royaumont at Chantilly and the Pomone at Deauville.
BLUESTOCKING (Ralph Beckett, 4f) Sire: Camelot out of a Dansili mare. Pretty Polly winner at the Curragh (1m 3f) but stepped up on that by running second to Goliath in the King George (firm), with Sunway 4th, Auguste Rodin 5th, Luxembourg 6th, and winning the Prix Vermeille (soft) at Longchamp from the Sea The Stars filly Aventure, with Opera Singer 5th (withdrawn from the Arc) and Survie (7th).
AVENTURE (Christophe Ferland, 3f) Sire: Sea The Stars. Loves deep ground. Winner of Royaumont (1m 4f, heavy) at Chantilly and Pomone (1m 4.5f, soft) at Deauville after ‘a holiday on the farm’.
Fourth in the French Oaks over shorter in between and ran Bluestocking to three-parts of a length the last day in the Vermeille (rec 8lb).
FANTASTIC MOON (Frau S Steinberg, 4) Sire: Sea The Moon. The 2023 German Derby winner who won the Arc trial Prix Niel (good ground) that year. Back to form at Baden-Baden (good, Group 1) the last day under Arc-winning rider Rene Piechulek but ability is reduced on bad ground.
HAYA ZARK (Adrien Fouassier, 5h) Sire: Zartak. Five wins or very soft ground, including Group 3 at the trip. Third behind Mqse De Sevigne in the Ispahan; 14th of 15 in last year’s Arc.
SHIN EMPEROR (Yoshito Yahagi, 3) Sire: Siyouni out of a Galileo mare; brother to Sotsass, French Derby and Arc winner; 5th Japanese Guineas and 3rd in their Derby. Short of room, 3rd to Economics and Auguste Rodin; neck and threeparts of a length (Los Angeles 4th). Not raced on soft.
ZARAKEM (Jerome Reynier, 4) Sire: Zarak. Won the Harcourt (1m 2f) at Longchamp on heavy and three-parts-of-a-length runner-up to Auguste Rodin in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot on fast ground.
🇫🇷 ARC DE TRIOMPHE: ACCEPTORS
♦️ GOING very soft: Zarakem, Haya Zark, Fantastic Moon, Al Riffa, Sevenna’s Knight, Continuous, Auguste Rodin, Luxembourg, Bluestocking, Mqse De Sevigne, Look de Vega, Shin Emperor, Sunway, Delius, Sosie, Los Angeles, Survie, Aventure.
♦️ WITHDRAWN: Opera Singer
♦️ SUPPLEMENTED: Bluestocking
♦️ COUNTRIES with probables (update): France 9, Ireland 5, England 2, Germany 1, Japan 1,
♦️ DAQMAN’S GUIDE: Tomorrow the Irish contingent
ARC LINKS WITH HOT LACE
⭕ 2.40 Salisbury Chantilly Lace is an appropriate Ralph Beckett booking today for Rossa Ryan. Trainer and jockey will be looking forward to the Arc after the bold decision to supplement Bluestocking.
Chantilly Lace will keep the big race in view as a filly by French Guineas and Derby winner Lope De Vega, sire of one of the Arc favourites, Look De Vega.
Chantilly Lace is a half-sister to July Cup winner Ten Sovereigns.
Both Lope De Vega, the leading sire in Europe, and Ten Sovereigns both won their first two-year-old race, so the omens are good for today.
Staying on the trail of top juveniles, and taking it full circle, Francis-Henry Graffard has the odds-on favourite for Sunday’s Marcel Boussac two-year-old classic, the Siyouni filly, Zarigana.
Zarigana, out of a Frankel mare, is related to Arc winner Zarkava, the fabulous, unbeaten filly, who ended her career with the same rating as Enable
⭕ 3.15 Salisbury If heavy ground at Salisbury gives us false results – maybe even militates against Chantilly Lace – it should boost Bob Mali’s chance.
From the towering 375,000gn tag on Chantilly Lace we drop to a fee (€3,000) for Bob Mali, already in the bargain basement, since he was resold for more than five times as much.
As a colt against a filly, Bob Mali has to give 5lb to Persian Spirit, who was buoyant in the rain on debut at Newbury but beat a three-times second, surely a red flag.
Bringing back some balance, the third went on to win seven lengths once encountering better ground, but then there are more wories about the favourite.
After a couple of winners, Richard Hannon’s form has tailed right off again (2-34 with three favourites in a row beaten), and the front two in the market flip-flopped this morning, with Bob Mali taking over pole position.
MURPHY RIDE BETDAQ VALUE
⭕ 4.20 Salisbury Champion-elect Oisin Murphy has ridden just one horse for Neil Mulholland and it was a winner.
The Bath stable’s heavy-ground-performer Bucephalus has scored on the Flat (1m 2f) and over hurdles (2m) and looks lined up for this.
He’s against another Hannon horse, a Beckett that requires multiple aids and is a winner on firm ground, and a top weight, Indemnity, that has failed to add to his maiden, always a bad sign. Betdaq Betting Exchange 8.7 taken.
DAQMAN’S BETS
2.40 Salisbury (win 20, nap)
BET 10pts win CHANTILLY LACE
3.15 Salisbury (win 12)
BET 8pts win BOB MALI
4.20 Salisbury (win 30)
BET 4pts win BUCEPHALUS
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