10.5 BETDAQ VALUE WINNER FOR DAQMAN: Daqman banked holiday earnings at the high end, thanks to BETDAQ value, with a 10.5 outsider among three winners across the cards yesterday at Epsom and Ripon. The outsider, Midnight Malibu, was gambled down from those double-figure offers to 7-2.
WON 7-2 ENJAZAAT (Ripon)
WON 7-2 MIDNIGHT MALIBU (Epsom, BETDAQ 10.5 taken)
WON 11-8 HIGH END (Epsom)
BELL FORTUNES HAVE REVIVED
2.00 Epsom This is a meeting farmed by Richard Fahey, who won this particular race back to back (2013-14), and has a 50% strike rate in nurseries on this track.
Panophobia’s early efforts can be discarded as he’s no sprinter and has been quite green. But a step up to 7f suited on the last day and he could break his duck here.
Seaella and Lexington Grace are no more than platers, but Ruysch may improve making his handicap debut, with Ed Dunlop in better form.
Another Day of Sun would be an appropriate winner just now but looks exposed, while Mark Usher is doing his best to iron out the wayward Rainbow Jazz (first run gelded, first handicap, first-time blinkers). I had a bit of 10.0 Ruysch.
2.15 Ripon Trainer-in-form Michael Bell raids Ripon today, putting the hood on Revived, and booking Daniel Tudhope (3-6 for the yard).
Deviate will be hard to beat from a rails draw, but the hood means business in a race where most are looking for a handicap mark for autumn nurseries.
JOHNSTON TWO-YEAR-OLD GOLD
2.35 Epsom Andrew Balding and Mark Johnston, who have won two apiece since 2010, clash today with Berkshire Spirit and Lynwood Gold, whose sire gets Group winners at this two-year–old level.
I’m A Star ran at Newmarket as if today’s step up in trip would suit but Johnston juveniles are having a big season, and I fancied that the BETDAQ market would lean towards Lynwood Gold later on so I took 5.4 early mouse.
b Fahey, whose success at this meeting we talked about in the nursery analysis (2.00 race), has won this handicap four times since 2010, including with a second-season animal. Here he has a three-year-old again, Scofflaw.
Mark Johnston’s Poet’s Society looks exposed after 12 races this year, but he has run well at class-2 level and cannot be discarded.
Highland Acclaim, who won this last year off the same 87 rating, scored again over the Epsom CD this summer, but only by a short head from Huntsmans Close.
Still more Yorkshire runners and yet another CD scorer is Reputation from a big field in June. Has not done an awful lot since, so is back down the weights to within a pound of his winning rating that day. Might have been involved in the Great St Wilfrid finish but for racing on the wrong side.
Dual winner at this time in 2016, Coronation Day came back to winning form on the last day but this 7f performer was chasing a good gallop in a bigger field that day.
He is now 10lb higher than for his previous success, and is unlikely to get a strong pace in this tricky field where the vote goes to Reputation (6.2 offers).
SKELTON THE PREMIER TRAINER
4.30 Ripon (City of Ripon Handicap) Alexander M’s form (210131) is in and out, and he’s due for a defeat, but note that the grey is not penalised for his Chester success, because it was an apprentice race.
The 6.0 BETDAQ bet Sands Chorus has won three times at Ripon and was ‘the moral’ here again on the last day, when beaten a couple of lengths but giving 12lb to the winner.
Jacbequick has never won at today’s trip, and Mulligatawny ran away from him today’s CD on soft, but but he is favoured by the right-hand track, as is Monticello, who is the hidden horse of the race.
Monticello (9.2 offers) has been placed four times (two wins) out of seven going clockwise, drops down from class 2 and has races on the negative side of his profile which are best ignored. For instance,h e didn’t like the soft ground at Newmarket.
4.35 Newton Abbot Though Paul Nicholls is rampaging through the novice-chases already (6.05 Alcala), the leading Jumps trainer at this stage is Dan Skelton.
Dan seems to have wrought immense improvement in Premier Rose (around evens this morning), who scooted up round Southwell when the medium of a stable gamble, and is reckoned worth a tiolt at a decent handicap.
DAQMAN’S BETS (all staked to win 20 points)
BET 2pts win and place RUYSCH, and 5pts win (stakes saver) PANOPHOBIA (2.00 Epsom)
BET 10pts win REVIVED (2.15 Ripon)
BET 4.75pts win LYNWOOD GOLD (2.35 Epsom)
BET 4pts win REPUTATION (3.10 Epsom)
BET 4pts win SANDS CHORUS and 2.4pts win MONTICELLO (4.30 Ripon)
BANKER BET: 20pts win (nap) PREMIER ROSE (4.35 Newton Abbot)
DAQ MULTIPLES: 3pts win double REVIVED (2.15 Ripon) and PREMIER ROSE (4.35 Newton Abbot)
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