FIVE BANKERS WIN OUT OF SEVEN: Daqman landed another maximum-stakes bet yesterday but a second one didn’t run its race, leaving our man on five out of seven:
WON 4-5 Kodi Bear
WON 1-1 Gale Force
WON 6-4 Richard Pankhurst
WON 1-5 Jack Hobbs
WON 8-15 Perkunas
60 POINTS FROM LEVEL STAKES: Daqman tries to mix it with banker sequences, outsiders in his bull’s-eye bets, plus his value challenge to Pricewise, and his lays. He says: ‘There’s value in them all if they show a profit.’ The current bankers sequence has a 71% strike rate, 60 points up to 20-point level stakes, which is a 43% return on outlay.
* TODAY: The truth behind the sprint headlines.
* TOMORROW: ABC Guide to Saturday’s St Leger.
KID SPRINTERS MUST MATCH MEN TO BE CHAMPION
They are the superfast generation. Or are they? Limato and Ivawood try to stake their claim in the Park Stakes on Saturday, two more from a hotbed of three-year-olds with the Champions Sprint in their sites.
The racing world can’t wait for the big four – three of them trained by Charles Hills – to meet in the big ’un at Ascot in October.
Muhaarar and Magical Memory seemed to be the kingpins, then Twilight Son and Strath Burn laid down their challenges in a terrific finish to the Haydock Sprint on Saturday.
But all the talk of the Classic generation producing so many fast sprinters has hidden the real facts.
Both Park Hill and Champions Sprint were won last year by horses aged six, and the unvarnished truth beneath the hype is that the old boys could again have the young pretenders by the scruff of the neck.
What has been overlooked is that, by the time we reach October and the Prix de l’Abbaye at Longchamp and Champions Sprint at Ascot, the three-year-olds’ allowance has virtually disappeared.
There will only be the odd pound difference between them at Ascot, unless fillies and mares; even then it’s only 3lb max, and that equates to only a length.
And, if you work out the results of the big sprints won by the three-year-olds thus far, you’ll find that – using that rule of thumb, 3lb to a length – the top sprinters are, in fact, the seven-year-olds Tropics and Gordon Lord Byron.
It was ‘Gordon’ who broke the mould by taking last year’s Champions Sprint aged six, after seven out of eight previous winners had been aged three and four.
I say seven out of eight because, in 2012, Maarek, then five, had also upset the youngsters. Maarek and Gordon Lord Byron will be back for this showdown of showdowns in October.
‘Gordon’ was beaten a length by Muhaarar in August, giving 5lb, which makes him the ‘moral’ winner that day.
Tropics was also ‘the moral’ when beaten a nose by Muhaarar in the July Cup, giving 6lb, the equivalent of two lengths.
Puns intended when I say that the three-year-old new kids on the sprinting block are fast becoming men and have time on their side. If the great architect of weight-for-age, handicapper Admiral Rous, is looking down on us now, he’ll be laughing little apples.
He knew that the developing three-year-old would virtually draw level with his seniors come October of his year.
Will the current crack set grow up in time? Can their speed match the guts and experience of old-timers like ‘Gordon’ and Tropics? That’s the real excitement awaiting us in the Champions Sprint.
THE DAY JUSTICE SHOULD BE SEEN TO BE WON..
4.00 Leicester Justice Day has had a rear view of some of the top sprinters at Group 1 and 2 level, in such as the King’s Stand and the Nunthorpe at Royal Ascot and York.
At the weights, he should turn around the placings with Dutch Masterpiece on their second and third in a handicap last month, and that puts him just in front of Barracuda Boy, who was a neck better than Dutch Masterpiece on the July Course at Newmarket.
Hot Streak has finished behind Justice Day twice this season and, from what I read of going and weather, will not have the softish surface that he prefers.
AUSPICION NAPPED TO BE AT HIS BEST WHEN FRESH
3.50 Redcar For a class 4, this is a cracking contest, with 75% of the field having won sometime this season, four of them twice, four of them having been seen at class 2 and 3 level since June.
Janaab comes into it for a yard which won the race three years running (2007-9). His form on a sound surface over a mile this year is 2101 but he’s quirky and you can’t be sure what race he’ll run.
Auspicion and Almuheet are the ones dropped in grade but Almuheet has failed to score since his debut maiden 16 races back.
Despite being beaten in a small field at Musselburgh in June, Auspicion took on top handicappers in the Britannia at Royal Ascot.
The secret to this animal is that he has to be fresh and, since he hasn’t been seen since that day at Ascot, he’s fresh here all right! I took 5.2 in the BETDAQ orange this morning.
5.50 Redcar While Roger Charlton is currently striking at 17%, his former assistant, Ivan Furtado, has a 26% record in his first season.
Ivan can saddle Ski Blast to a winning handicap debut here, particularly with trainers Eyre, Stubbs and Fairhurst badly out of form, and Ski Blast’s market rivals, Tanawar and Rememberance Day, racing off their highest marks.
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked 1 to 9)
BET 8pts win (nap) AUSPICION (3.50 Redcar)
BET 8pts win JUSTICE DAY (4.00 Leicester)
BET 6pts win SKI BLAST (5.50 Redcar)
DAQ MULTIPLES: 3 x 2pt win doubles and 1pt win treble the three above.
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