6-1 MELBOURNE CUP WINNER FOR DAQMAN: Fiorente, formerly trained by Sir Michael Stoute, won the Melbourne Cup, saddled by former Dr Who actress Gai Waterhouse, in the early hours of this morning, a 6-1 winner from three Daqman bets in the race.
MASSIVE MOSSE RIDE ON RED CADEAUX: Raiders from England and Ireland were second, third, fourth and fifth, when a massive ride by Gerald Mosse got Red Cadeaux threeparts of a length off the winner at 60-1, with Mount Athos (12-1), Simenon and Dandino following on.
32 POINTS PROFIT FROM MAN OF A NAP: Daqman’s nap, Foundation Man (WON 11-10), manned it out at Kempton Park, always up with the leaders, and put Tony McCoy just two winners short of the 4,000. Daqman’s profit on the day was 32.80.
McCOY CAN GO WITHIN AN ACE OF 4,000: Daqman rates Well Hello There as Tony McCoy’s best chance today, leaving him with one to go, and fancies a 23.0 outsider in the Haldon Gold Cup, scene of Cue Card’s return.
FRANCE: YORKSHIRE PUNTERS IN CLOVER AT MAISONS
1.50 Maisons-Laffitte (Criterium De Maisons-Laffitte) After Jo Hughes’ tremendous strike with London Bridge in the Breeders’ Cup, another small-time trainer, Ollie Pears, sends No Leaf Clover from Norton with a better chance than at first sight in this Group-2 criterium.
The precedent for Yorkshire success in the race was set by Kevin Ryan in 2005 (Balthazar’s Gift) and he won it again with Our Jonathan four years ago.
No Leaf Clover, who acts on the soft, has officially improved 22lb in the last three months from his class-5 maiden to the (Listed) Rockingham Stakes, when just failing to hold Roger Varian’s Mushir. That alone rated a 19lb hike in the ratings.
This Time, already a Group-3 winner at Chantilly, is likely to be one of the favourites for the home team but collateral form leaves him something to find with the Yorkshire lad: Haikbidiac, a close third in that Chantilly race, was a moderate seventh in the Rockingham.
The 1-2-3 from another Group 3 at Chantilly – Kiram, Germany’s High Duty and Another Party – all meet again here, with the improving Kiram likely to come out on top again.
David Wachman saddles Naas nursery scorer (soft) Hidden Oasis, who has won two out of three and is by the French Derby winner, Lawman.
2.20 Maisons-Laffitte Jim Bolger sends Korba (2.20) for another two-year-old test, the Prix Miesque, named after the first horse to win two consecutive Breeders’ Cups.
I can’t tell you much about the local form and even less about Korba, who has raced only once – at The Curragh – without catching the racereader’s eye.
2.55 Maisons-Laffitte Gentleman Jim’s candidate in the all-age Prix de Seine-et-Oise is well exposed and has won only his maiden, albeit on heavy ground which he faces here.
The Lambourn raider, Magic Secret, won from the front in a bog at Salisbury but needs to find a stone and more to make this leap from a class-4 handicap to Group 3.
The most likely winner is Catcall, who missed out on the Abbaye by a short-neck, with Myasun three lengths behind. Myasun finished in front of Dibajj in the Abbaye, and had Dibajj and Abu Sidra third and fifth at the Deauville festival.
ENGLAND: McCOY AT EXETER WITH A KEEN EYE ON THE 4,000
1.50 Exeter: McCoy on Flemenson Local Somerset trainers Colin Tizzard (Billy No Name), Paul Nicholls (Sea Wall) and Philip Hobbs (Champagne West) are strong candidates to stop the A P McCoy bandwagon with their five-year-olds.
McCoy declared that Flemenson’s Uttoxeter win came in ‘not a great race’ and the son of Flemensfirth is only four. Eight from that age group have all failed to reach the first three in the race’s four-year history (five races), with four wins for five-year-olds.
Flemenson and Billy No Name are penalized with 11st 4lb. All success in the race has come off 10st 12lb, albeit only last year’s seven-lengths runner-up has attempted to defy the penalty in that time.
Champagne West is highly regarded and the step up in trip today will be massively in his favour: 4.6 on BETDAQ, as I write, and better value than Flemenson (saver).
2.20 Exeter: McCoy on Keen Eye Nicholls and Hobbs farm this race, with the score 5-4 in the decade to Nicholls, who reckons Broomfield, laid off nearly two years through injury, can start making up for lost time.
The worry about the Hobbs’ horse, Sea Island Pearl, is the ground. David Pipe’s Doctor Harper will love it, and he starts his hurdles career among ordinary novices after a tilt at the Grade-1 Cheltenham Champion Bumper.
McCoy’s mount, Keen Eye, has virtually talied off in two starts under a conditional rider, and A P is more likely to make the difference when this Milan gelding goes handicapping.
2.50 (Haldon Gold Cup) The return of Arkle runner-up and Ryanair winner, Cue Card, whose form after a break is 14121, including this race last year off a 15lb lower mark.
Somersby, in the frame behind the best at level weights – Kauto Star, Master Minded, Sprinter Sacre – has 17lb with which to turn around an Ascot defeat by Cue Card, and his comeback form is 4131.
Unbeaten William’s Wishes has his big chance here, with his reappearance record 3111 but every professional punter pounces on the young blood at this time of year.
Somersby and William’s Wishes will be 10 and nine, respectively, on January 1, and I expect the winner to come from those in the race currently aged five (Fago) and six (Module and Kumbeshwar).
The last six years of this early gold cup has produced three winners aged six and two seven-year-olds, which illustrates my point.
Paul Nichols says he’s back to square one with Fago, who lost his way last season and his uncertainty is revealed by nominations for the Power Gold Cup with a graduation chase as the alternative.
Module (at 9.8 offers on BETDAQ this morning) was impressive at an ordinary level until attempting Cheltenham over the wrong trip and that applies to Kumbeshwar, only more so.
If you take out Kumbeshwar’s Cheltenham form, heavy-ground runs and all races beyond today’s trip, his figures are condensed to 12242F112 since the beginning of 2012.
He, too, has taken on the best – second to Sprinter Sacre and Sanctuaire – and is a mad price at offers of 23.0 in a six-horse contest.
3.50 Exeter: McCoy on Well Hello There Again, I don’t want Alderluck and Mr Gardner on account of their age. Both Bendant and Gas Line Boy are not fluent at their fences.
Kind Of Easy, who has been punished 11lb for winning at Fontwell, is also up in trip as well as up in class. It leaves me choosing from Arkose, Rydalis and Well Hello There.
Arkose is nine now but goes well fresh, won at this level over hurdles, and is from a stable with current form figures of 1212.
Rydalis’s yard landed a hat-trick at Ascot on Saturday. He’s another who goes well fresh but has to raise his game from class-4 level.
Not a great race but McCoy won on his only ride on Well Hello There (has breathing problems) when a tongue-tie was fitted, as today. I took 7.4 Rydalis and 4.6 Well Hello There but it will take the McCoy drive to get him within an ace of the 4,000.
DAQMAN’S BETS (Bets are to win 20 points, except at Maisons-Laffitte)
BET 5.5pts win CHAMPAGNE WEST and 4pts win (stakes saver) FLEMENSON (1.50 Exeter)
BET 9pts win DOCTOR HARPER and 4.5pts win (stakes saver) BROOMFIELD (2.20 Exeter)
BET 2.3pts win MODULE and 0.8pts win KUMBESHWAR (2.50 Exeter)
BET 5.5pts win WELL HELLO THERE and 3pts win RYDALIS (3.50 Exeter)
FRENCH RACING: 5pts win on each NO LEAF CLOVER and KIRAM (1.50) and 10pts win CATCALL (nap, 2.55), all at Maisons-Laffitte.
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