DAQMAN CAPS BIG-WIN WEEKEND: A winner-a-day Bank Holiday weekend for Daqman with a big-odds strike, a big-race winner and a fun-day return to cap it all!
WON 7-4 HUNDRED CAPS (Bank Holiday Monday)
WON 1-1 DESERT FLOWER (1,000 Guineas, Sunday)
WON 8-1 FLIGHT PLAN (BETDAQ 14.5 taken Saturday)
TODAY: Fortune Cookies update.
TOMORROW: The three-day Chester meeting.
FORTUNE COOKIES UPDATE
DESERT FLOWER: The ability to quicken off pace attracted me to Enable when she won the Classic-trial Cheshire Oaks. I was still cleaning up 11 consecutive strikes later, starting with the English and Irish Oaks and later on including the Arc de Triomphe and the Breeders Cup Turf.
Thoroughly modern filly, Desert Flower didn’t just quicken off pace; she set the pace herself in winning the 1,000 Guineas, then she didn’t just change gear once, she started to go through several hidden gears.
FIELD OF GOLD: In contrast, the long sweeping run is equally effective, but you have to get it right, as those still having nightmares about Dancing Brave’s Derby will tell you.
Over-confidence was admitted by jockey Kieran Shoemark in the 2,000 Guineas; but he must have felt Field Of Gold hesitate in the Dip, without the grip underfoot from which he took off in the Craven.
Winner of the 2,000, RULING COURT, and 1,000 runner-up, FLIGHT, can be followed, as long as they don’t meet Field Of Gold and Desert Flower again!
MAP OF STARS had Arc fourth Sosie all out in the Ganay; this time Raceform were polite to jockey Mickael Barzalona with one of those ‘bit short of room, switched’ notations after his neck defeat.
The Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot has now been pencilled in, alongside Ganay third, Karl Burke’s Royal Rhyme.
ROYAL RHYME I can’t see the placings being reversed but what I can see is Royal Rhyme going well in the Tattersalls Gold Cup at the Curragh in three weeks’ time.
Before Godolphin routed their hopes in the Kentucky Derby and Oaks, and in the 2,000 and 1,000 Guineas, Juddmonte were the seeming sensations of the 2025 season with Jonquil (Greenham) and Cosmic Year (Listed King Charles winner at the Guineas meeting) as well as Field Of Gold.
Field Of Gold remains on my list but I need to see Jonquil again and Cosmic Year is now likely to drop back in trip for the Commonwealth Cup.
LEAN ON LEN
⭕ 3.45 Fakenham this is such a weak contest in which I think the consistent Lenjoleur De Palma has a solid chance at around 5/1 against two vulnerable sorts at the top of the Betdaq Betting Exchange market.
The case for Lenjoleur De Palma is built around four consistent career runs – some in better contests than this – and the expectation of further improvement now stepped up in trip.
I also like the fact he brings a relative fitness advantage to the table especially over Market House who has been off the course for 261 days (jumps).
Market House has been plying his trade on the AW flat with some success but it remains to be seen whether he can transfer that form back to hurdles as he previously didn’t show much appetite for the jumping game.
Raby Mere heads the betting but is even more precarious in my opinion. He has been beaten 35,61,69,24 and 52 lengths in his five efforts so far over hurdles and the significant stable switch to Olly Murphy is more than factored in to his current skinny price.
CALLISTO DREAM QUEEN
⭕ 7.00 Wolverhampton Callisto Dream is taken to defy her penalty and make it two from two here for trainer Edward Bethell who has saddled four winners from his last 15 runners.
She was as green as the grass she was running on at Carlisle on debut but clearly has ability and ran out a comfortable two and a half length winner over Thecla who has also won since.
Mahogany Bay looks the danger judged by her improved second start at Newmarket where she was well backed.
Kempton scorer Bela Sonata won nicely and is another burdened with a penalty but makes up what looks like an intriguing contest that might well work out better than the official class 5 status.
HAVE A LOOK AT COORAMOOK
⭕ 9.00 Wolverhampton Sibyl Charm looks opposable at the top of the betting as she bids to end a form sequence of 4755096-7634523 which has followed back to back wins at Newcastle last year. She’s running well enough but probably needs a few pounds back from the handicapper.
The more lightly raced Cooramook looks more interesting after an encouraging second to the impressive Maelstrom (winner Haydock next time out) at Yarmouth and she runs off the same mark in tonight’s finale.
DAQMAN’S BETS on Betdaq Betting Exchange
3.45 Fakenham (win 20)
BET 3.6pts win LENJOLEUR DE PALMA
★ 7.00 Wolverhampton (win 10, nap)
BET 6.6pts win CALLISTO DREAM
9.00 Wolverhampton (win 10)
BET 2.5pts win COORAMOOK
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