TIS ANOTHER MARVELLOUS RUN OF DAQMAN NAPS: Daqman continued his winner-a-day sequence yesterday, when he also landed his fourth winning nap in a week, and made a profit on the day for the third time in four days. The quartet of naps:
✔️ WON 6-4 TIS MARVELLOUS Monday nap
✔️ WON 9-4 ZEEBAND Friday nap
✔️ WON 6-5 LIGHTS ON Thursday nap
✔️ WON 11-10 AYR POET Tuesday nap
HE GOES FOR A PLOT HORSE AT 14.0 AT GOODWOOD: Look out this week for the final Classics of this season – two St Legers – trials for the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and top races for two-year-olds, sometimes key to next year’s Classics. Meanwhile, Daqman spots a plot horse at Goodwood at 14.0 today, one of two ‘thrown in’ at the weights in consecutive races.
ARC AND CLASSICS ON THE LINE
When tomorrow tops tomorrow! Wednesday’s first day of the four-day St Leger meeting at Doncaster heralds a fabulous long, long weekend of Group races Thursday-Sunday in England, Ireland (at the Curragh and Leopardstown) and in France.
There are two St Legers, with the English on Saturday and the Irish on Sunday, when Longchamp features two Arc trials and the Curragh has top two-year-olds tests for the 2021 Classics.
🗓️ THURSDAY: Doncaster
May Hill Stakes 2019 Powerful Breeze (Hugo Palmer, James Doyle)
Park Hill Stakes 2019 Enbihaar (John Gosden, Jim Crowley)
🗓️ FRIDAY: Doncaster
Doncaster Cup 2019 Stradivarius (John Gosden, Frankie Dettori)
Flying Childers Stakes 2019 A’Ali (Simon Crisford, Frankie Dettori)
🗓️ SATURDAY: Doncaster
St Leger 2019 Logician (John Gosden, Frankie Dettori). Won six times by Aidan O’Brien.
Portland Handicap 2019 Oxted (Roger Teal, Cieren Fallon)
Park Stakes 2019 Sir Dancealot (David Elsworth, Gerald Mosse)
🗓️ SATURDAY: Leopardstown
Irish Champion Stakes 2019 Magical (Aidan O’Brien, Ryan Moore). John Gosden won it in 2013 (The Fugue), 2015 (Golden Horn) and 2017 (Roaring Lion).
🗓️ SUNDAY: the Curragh
Irish St Leger 2019 Search For A Song (Dermot Weld, Chris Hayes). Weld won it four years running (2001-4) with Vinnie Roe.
Flying Five 2019 Fairyland (Aidan O’Brien, Ryan Moore). O‘Brien won it two years earlier with Caravaggio.
Vincent O’Brien National Stakes 2019 Pinatubo (Charlie Appleby, William Buick). Gleneagles (2014) and Churchill (2016) among 11 winners for Aidan O’Brien).
Moyglare Stud Stakes 2019 Love (Aidan O’Brien, Ryan Moore), the ninth winner for Ballydoyle.
🗓️ SUNDAY: Longchamp
Grand Prix de Paris Won the last twice by Aidan O’Brien with Kew Gardens and Japan.
Prix Foy Won the last two seasons by Waldgeist (Andre Fabre, Pierre-Charles Boudot). Beat Enable in last year’s Arc.
Prix Vermeille 2019 Star Catcher (John Gosden, Frankie Dettori). Won this century by Arc winners Treve and Zarkava.
HE’S NEW KING OF THE COOKIES
Long live the King! Persian King, scintillating winner of Sunday’s Prix du Moulin, is added to the Fortune Cookies list.
To think that, before Longchamp, he was 14-1 for the Irish Champion Stakes and 8-1 for the Queen Elizabeth 11 Stakes.
In fact, he has so many options, no decision has yet been made as to where he goes next, and the tasty question is whether we see him clash in any mile-championship decider with Palace Pier, John Gosden’s winner of the St James’s Palace Stakes and Prix Jacques Le Marois.
Fortune Cookies expects to field Battleground and Lucky Vega in weekend championship races for two-year-olds in Ireland.
FORTUNE COOKIES: Addeybb, Aramon, Art Power, Bahrain Pride, Battleground, Campanelle, Chil Chil, Dandalla, Dream of Dreams, Enable, Fancy Blue, Fanny Logan, Highest Ground, Kameko, King Vega, Lucky Vega, Persian King.
CALIBER BIG FUTURE WHISPER
⭕ 3.35 Goodwood This Future Stayers Maiden has thrown up two Group performers in three seasons, notably Line Of Duty, who would go on to win the Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf.
My man in the long grass tells me to oppose the overnight favourite, Greystoke, with Andrew Balding’s son of Golden Horn, Star Caliber.
Star Caliber, well drawn in the one stall, is with the burgeoning King Power group, who have booked Silvestre De Sousa for the ride, his only mount today. I took 4.2 on BETDAQ.
Greystoke sets the standard on form but the Mick Channon yard has gone more than a year without a winner at Goodwood (0-31) and has currently slipped from its seam of summer form and is striking at only 8%.
GRATITUDE FOR 14.0 PLATITUDE
⭕ 4.40 Goodwood Is local handler Amanda Perrett capable of plotting up a long-odds winner from the Pulborough base where her father, Guy Harwood, once trained Dancing Brave?
If Platitude loses this race today, it would be Amanda’s 50th consecutive loser on her home course.
Platitude ran second in the race last year to Themaxwecan, who goes for back-to-back wins in this 2m handicap, with his stable bidding for a hat-trick, having won the last two runnings.
The difference is that, thanks partly to being claimed off, Platitude, top rated and top speed horse, is two stone precisely better off with Max for the length defeat a year ago!
Platitude will also be 15lb better with Seinsesational, the winner at Sandown in August of his prep run for today.
He has crashed down the handicap from a 108 to an 86, and is a winner here at Goodwood twice, including over the CD, and I was pleased to grab 14.0 in the BETDAQ orange this morning.
Stag Horn doesn’t worry me; he was a winner here in a small field in slow time, and his success the last day was on heavy.
Nuits St Georges is going the right way but his CD strike here at Goodwood also came with cut in the ground and off a 12lb lower mark, and is another illustration of how Platitude is thrown in.
DREAM? OR ANOTHER GOOD THING
⭕ 5.10 Goodwood Another handicap ‘good thing’ is 4.5 BETDAQ offer Dream Today, down 10lb on her last success at 6f; again, if you take the claim into account, the gelding is lower by 17lb.
On the last day he was a close second over course and distance here at Goodwood in the Stewards Cup Consolation, two grades above today‘s level.
Apprentice Saffie Osborne, was possibly unlucky for the horse to stumble badly at the start, lose ground and maybe frighten himself for the race.
A horse I’m following in the Fortune Cookies’ list called Chil Chil, winner of a class 2 at Ascot, was runner-up at Bath when Dream Today made headway into fourth.
Verdict: ‘Good things’ pave the road to punters’ ruin, but I can’t recall seeing two so well in for consecutive races at one meeting, since the good old bad old days of playing the long handicaps. It’s Goodwood so we still need luck in running.
DAQMAN’S BETS
3.35 Goodwood (win 10)
BET 3pts win STAR CALIBER
4.40 Goodwood (win 50, win 10 place)
BET 4pts win and 2.5pts place PLATITUDE
5.10 Goodwood (win 20 nap)
BET 5.75pts win DREAM TODAY
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