DARK DAQMAN NAP SECOND 12.0: Inisherin (WON 11-8) gave Daqman a quick return after his nap, Dark Thirty, a win-50 bull’s-eye bet, was backed from 11.5 and 12.0 on BETDAQ in to 7-1 SP, just run down after leading a furlong out at York.
LEGS ELEVEN IN THE DANTE? Whirl in the Musidora gave Aidan O’Brien a 10th trial win this Spring. Can he be stopped in the Dante?
O’BRIEN GETS LION’S SHARE
⭕ 3.45 York (Dante Stakes) If anyone can claim he’s ahead of Aidan O’Brien this season, it’s Charlie Appleby.
While Ballydoyle had to settle for the French Guineas with Henri Matisse on Sunday, the Boys In Blue were celebrating the Newmarket 2,000 and 1,000 double with Ruling Court and Desert Flower..
The Classic coups were part of a 50% (7-14) winners charge by Appleby over only four days racing. But O’Brien has had the lion’s share of the trials, 10 of them!
118 THE LION IN WINTER (Aidan O’Brien) Not seen since beating Wimbledon Hawkeye in the Acomb here at York in August, and one of the Ballydoyle squad said to have needed time this Spring.
112 WIMBLEDON HAWKEYE (the key form player): Ran second to The Lion In Winter in the Acomb Stakes here at York last August; second, well beaten by Field Of Gold in the Craven Stakes last month; fifth when Field Of Gold failed to catch Ruling Court in the 2,000.
108 ROYAL PLAYWRIGHT (Andrew Balding) placed behind Field Of Gold and Wimbledon Hawkeye in the Solario and the Royal Lodge Stakes respectively last summer.
104 ALPINE TRAIL (Charlie Appleby) 3-3: beat nothing well (up to 1m 2f Listed), but the only one of the big three today to have raced beyond a mile.
104 DAMYSUS (Team Gosden) Kieran Shoemark, who blew the 2,000 Guineas on Field Of Gold, gets an early chance to redeem himself on the Sandown Classic Trial third Damysus, ‘the fastest of all the giants’.. or is that just Greek myth?
BLUE FOR YOU LOVES YORK
⭕ 2.42 York I’m swerving the sprints today after yesterday’s crowding and hard luck stories.
This mile handicap has gone to high stalls (12 to 16) and low (1 to 5); the middle draw seems to get squeezed out.
Romieu (2) has joined Adrian Keatley from Andre Fabre because the better ground here will suit. BETDAQ 7.2 taken.
Conversely, connections will hope the Knavesmire has been well watered for Blue For You (4), who loves this track. BETDAQ 5.9.
SEE THE TARGET AND FIRE!
⭕ 3.13 York Subsequent Arc winner Bluestocking took this last year out of the one stall. In fact, gates 1 and 2 have housed six of the last seven winners.
The advantage is to Sioux Life, who has won on all sorts of terrain in Italy, but the company she’s kept won’t have been that good.
The race also requires a lot more from Nottingham Listed winner Ambiente Amigo (out of gate 2) who is no longer ‘in friendly company.’
Nakheel, who broke her maiden over this trip, won the Park Hill beyond 1m 6f on good to soft.
See The Fire appeals on the course where she won the Strensall Stakes (1m 1f) on firmish ground and seems unphased by a tight pack at the finish.
Ralph Beckett is expecting more from Doha, late developer who leapt 25lb last year. Her dam, Treve, won the Arc twice, on soft and on good.
DAQMAN’S BETS on Betdaq Betting Exchange
2.42 York (win 30)
BET 6pts win BLUE FOR YOU
BET 4.75pts win ROMIEU
3.13 York (win 12, win 20)
BET 11pts win SEE THE FIRE
BET 2.5pts win DOHA
★ 3.45 YORK (supernap)
BET 20pts win LION IN WINTER
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