WIN, WIN, WIN IN DAQMAN’S LONG WEEKEND OF 105 POINTS PROFIT: Rock-solid Daqman romped to more than 100 points profit with seven winners in three days, including his nap, Ibraz (WON 9-5), at Ripon yesterday. There’s more Ripon plus the second day at Epsom this afternoon. Here are the seven successes, and the daily profit, totting up to 105.75 on ALL selections, in his winning long weekend of Saturday, Sunday and the English Bank Holiday Monday:
MONDAY: Profit 23.50
WON 9-5 IBRAZ (nap)
WON 5-6 SOUTHERN ROCK
SUNDAY: Profit 37.85
WON 16-1 PROTECTED GUEST (18.5 BETDAQ w/p)
WON 2-1 LE DON DE VIE
WON 15-8 SPINNING MEMORIES
SATURDAY: Profit 44.40
WON 16-1 MUSTAJEER (26.0 BETDAQ w/p)
WON 9-1 QUE AMORO
ONE-TWO, ONE-TWO BID BY JOHNSTON
⚠️ Heads Up As autumn approaches, The Curragh gets in first for seasonal big handicaps: the Irish Cambridgeshire is on Friday, a toughie for tipsters and problematic for punters.
But, if we do land the winner, it could be – as in the last nine years – 10-1, 11-1, 12-1, 16-1, 20-1 (twice) or 25-1 (twice), and no doubt considerably bigger offers on BETDAQ in the morning. Even Aidan O’Brien has been among the high-odds winners.
Key to winner-finding could be the draw. Stalls 16 to 27 have won four times in the last five seasons.
⚠️ Heads Up The Chelmsford City Cup (Saturday night) is again hugely oversubscribed, with 64 still in there, fighting for the chance of a £62,250 first prize.
Should one-time York International winner, Librisa Breeze, turn up, the grey will have to give weight all round from a 10st 4lb perch.
If last year’s 1-2-3-4, winner Cenotaph and placed horses, Charles Molson, Salateen and Vale Of Kent, are back for more, the one to be on at the revised weights is Salateen, now aged seven.
But be warned about second-season animals Blown By Wind and Warning Fire. Is Mark Johnston after a one-two twice in this race? He ran two three year olds in the first running (2017). They finished first and second.
BENADALID AND DANNY: BETTER CLASS
3.35 Ripon (City of Ripon handicap, 1m 2f) Daniel Tudhope is booked for Benadalid, who has won a grade higher on this course when carrying 3lb more.
Fennaan has slipped down the handicap, 5lb below his rating when second to the prolific Fayez, also in class 2 on this track.
Dawaaleeb is a winner at a lower level, yet has to give weight to Benadalid and Fennaan this afternoon.
Try this for Ripon form 1141. But difficult to trust Sands Chorus to reproduce it more than two years later, after 23 consecutive defeats.
Garden Oasis is back to his winning mark for Sir Michael Stoute, but Michael ‘got shot’ and the gelding has been struggling to find some form for Tim Easterby, who also runs the disappointing Aiya.
Mulligatawny has been winner and second in today’s race, and was in good form earlier in the summer, winning for today’s claimer, but still has to give weight to Benadalid (BETDAQ 4.3).
THEY WERE THE JOCKEY KING-MAKERS
3.50 Epsom (Stanley Wootton Handicap) This race commemorates Stanley Wootton who, with Reg Akehurst and Frenchie Nicholson, did most in the good old bad old days to mature apprentice riders at their stables way before the official jockey-training centres.
So it would be fitting if Isobel Francis, who claims 7lb, could take the prize: she has the advantage on the others in this race of having already won over the Epsom CD. It was on the same mount this afternoon, Peace Prevails.
Now more than two years and 13 races since Gawdawpalin troubled the judge but Junoesque (four out of six) has spent a lot of time in the winner’s enclosure for a total of a 12lb rise. The worry today is a step up in trip.
4.20 Epsom Three-year-olds have 100% record in this, with stalls 2 and 3 together having an 80% strike rate.
All those that fit these stats are outsiders, from which I pick 10.0 BETDAQ offer Mamillius who loves fast ground and this type of track (two wins at Brighton and a close second here)
His jockey, Pat Cosgrave, has had 10 winners in 13 days and current form figures of 11011, including on his only other ride for George Baker in that time, Diva Rock (won 6-1).
TRAINER JIM BOYLE HAS THIS SORTED
4.55 Epsom Pat Cosgrave again? Three-year-olds are again to the fore, looking for a four-timer in this, and the Cosgrave mount, Isle Of Wolves, is their only chance.
But he has been placed without winning on three of his last four starts, twice losing favourite under Cosgrave and, as well as the bridesmaid label that’s beginning to stick, he has the stigma of only ever having won his maiden; always a bad sign. The same hex is on Sweet Nature
Better, perhaps, than Grange Walk, who is still a maiden, or Maroc who is 1-37. Couldn’t Could She has won at Brighton and run well here but his stable is currently 0-14.
Isle Of Wolves’ Jim Boyle stablemate Duke Of North is 12lb lower than for back-to-back Epsom wins last summer, and has crashed down the handicap since, but can he stay the extra quarter-mile? I took 8.4, saver Isle Of Wolves.
5.25 Epsom The market sees this as a two-horse race, Break Of Day for William Haggas and The Queen, Geneva Spur for Roger Varian’s stable in form.
The handicapper is taking no chances with Geneva Spur, qualified for handicaps now under the three-runs rule, and given 63, which means she must give 9lb to previous winner, Break of Day.
DAQMAN’S BETS
3.35 Ripon (win 20)
BET 6pts win (nap) BENADALID
3.50 Epsom (win 10)
BET 5pts win PEACE PREVAILS
4.20 Epsom (win 20 with place saver)
BET 2pts win and place MAMILLIUS
4.55 Epsom (win 20)
BET 2.75pts win DUKE OF NORTH
BET 2.75pts win (stakes saver) ISLE OF WOLVES
5.25 Epsom (win 10)
BET 2.5pts win BREAK OF DAY
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