9-1 WINNER LIGHTS UP THE DAY: Big-odds winners are daily with Daqman. After an unlucky Monday (two seconds and a twice-hampered fourth at 20-1), Daqman came good and edged a profit on the day with Dawn’s Early Light (WON 9-1) at Pontefract last night. This follows winners at 10-1 and 7-1 on Sunday.
19.5 ASCOT ANTE-POST BET: Daqman checks some of the facts, stats and betting every day this week in the seven days before the Royal Ascot meeting. Today he tilts at the Kings Stand Stakes at 19.5 on BETDAQ.
TIGGY WIGGY ‘STANDS’ OUT IN THE BIG SPRINT
ROYAL ASCOT TUESDAY
QUEEN ANNE STAKES: Solow (France) and Able Friend (Hong Kong) dominate the market for the Queen Anne Stakes a week today over England’s hope, Night Of Thunder.
But Ladbrokes were among several firms impressed enough to go only 10-1 after Arod’s Diomed Stakes success at the Derby meeting, although 15.5 was available on BETDAQ this morning.
Toormore, Arod and Integral filled up the first four behind Night Of Thunder in the Lockinge at Newbury a month ago. Integral ran a bit fresh and would be the one I’d take out of the race but she is likely to wait for Wednesday’s Duke Of Cambridge Stakes for fillies and mares, which she won last year.
Able Friend has scored six wins in a row, including the Hong Kong Mile, but has never raced away from Sha-Tin. Solow has also won six on the trot, mainly in France, but has never been seen in conditions on the firm side of good.
KINGS STAND STAKES: The standout on BETDAQ in the King’s Stand Stakes is Tiggy Wiggy, 10-1 in several places with bookmakers but 19.5 in the orange.
She drops back to 5f for the first time since her Queen Mary second and Super Sprint success as a two-year-old.
Tiggy Wiggy will certainly get the pace she needs to produce her strength and stamina, which she showed when third in the 1,000 Guineas.
Four three-year-olds have won it in the last 20 years, the latest Equiano (2008), and one of the best of all Kings Stand winners was a three-year-old, Dayjur.
ROYAL ASCOT WEDNESDAY
DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE STAKES: Ladbrokes and one or two others have Integral short at 12-1 for the Queen Anne, whereas Sir Michael Stoute’s runner was 19.0 when I checked in the ante-post orange, and she is favourite for the Duke Of Cambridge on the Wednesday.
Integral goes for a repeat in the race but, since that day, has won the Sun Chariot Stakes and eight fillies who have carried a Group-1 penalty in the Duke Of Cambridge have been beaten, including such as Soviet Song.
Sky Lantern is the last one to fail: she was only fifth to Integral last year. What race gave her the Group-1 penalty? The Sun Chariot Stakes.
PRINCE OF WALES’S STAKES: Western Hymn (13.5 on BETDAQ though 8-1 in several places with the bookies) and Criterion (17.0 but 10-1 in several places) are the value on the exchange.
GALILEO LOOKS GOLDEN AT SALISBURY
SALISBURY Two selections for Salisbury on the turf today. The first runs at 2.25 and is my Nap of the day.
Martin Harley and Hugo Palmer team up with Galileo Gold in the second Maiden on the card. This colt by Paco Boy has one run behind him in a decent race at York won by Age of Empire. He is open to a huge amount of progress from that run and this is a slight step back in class.
I wouldn’t be too surprised to see this one shorten up considerably nearer to post time. Currently a shade of odds on at 1.95 on the BETDAQ orange, this one will be hard to beat.
Blacklister is the danger, especially with Ryan Moore in the plate, but his only run, in an Auction Maiden at Leicester, looked a weak race on paper and he will need to improve a lot to beat the favourite.
Ninety minutes later, 10 go to post for a 9.5 furlong Handicap (3.55). Palerma appears to be the one for value here for Mick Channon and George Baker.
A mile and a half did not suit her last time out as she faded near the finish in sixth. Dropping back in trip and class, this filly’s win two runs ago couldn’t have worked out much better. That day at Bath she beat Tears Of The Sun by a length with the runner up subsequently going on to beat Elbereth at Brighton before the latter went on to a big win at Epsom on Oaks Day.
Although Palerma looks to be high enough in the Handicap off 82, there is probably still some room for improvement and that can be seen today.
LINGFIELD I look to the final two races on the All Weather at Lingfield for my other bets today.
At 8.05, Alan King unleashes the decent Nyanza for her first run on the level since finishing second at Wolverhampton in October. I’m not usually one who likes to see horses suffer in the Handicap without winning, Nyanza received 5lbs for that run, but I believe this filly will appreciate being back on the Polytrack and can win this.
She is 2 wins from 2 under Richard Hughes and the reigning Champion takes the mount this evening. His assistance will certainly be a benefit and Nyanza should be the one in a small field.
The concluding race looks quite open but the one I fancy is Foxcover with the formidable partnership of Hayley Turner and Conor Dore.
This one is lightly raced but has been steadily dropping in the weights, now off 63 from an opening mark of 72, and the step up in trip should bring on some improvement.
He probably doesn’t need to improve massively to be in the reckoning here and 9.8 looks far too big for this one.
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked 1 to 9pts on strength, except ante-post bets)
BET 8pts win (Nap) GALILEO GOLD (2.25 Salisbury)
BET 3pts win and place PALERMA (3.55 Salisbury)
BET 4pts win NYANZA (8.05 Lingfield)
BET 3pts win and place FOXCOVER (8.35 Lingfield)
ANTE-POST: BET (to win 50): 2.7pts win at 19.5 TIGGY WIGGY (King’s Stand Stakes, Royal Ascot, Tuesday)
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