SEVEN WINNING BETS IN TWO DAYS: Daqman continued in devastating form yesterday with four successes to add to his three winners on Monday:
MONDAY
WON 9-4 Millys Gift
WON 10-11 Charming Thought
WON 8-15 Stetchworth (nap)
TUESDAY
WON 7-2 Daisy Boy
WON 11-10 All About Time
WON 5-6 Moscato
WON (lay) Green Door (2nd 3-1)
TOTAL OF 77 POINTS PROFIT: The two-day spree made a profit of 77 points, with one nap winning and one runner-up. Can Daqman reach 100? His bets are at the foot of his column.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE ABC CHECK: Daqman checks out the Cambridgeshire and its Silver Consolation in one ABC list of the leading horses in the big races. Tick them off when the declarations are made.
THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE ‘A’ TEAM
A Rated 95 to 104 (eight winners out of 10)
B Ran four to seven times that season (10/10)
C Had won a handicap of 13 or more runners (10/10)
D Won or placed in class 2 or higher (10/10)
E Below the age of six (8/10)
X Black mark for penalty (0-21)
ABCDE Gabrial’s Kaka
Excuses since hiked in the weights for winning the Newbury Spring Cup. Badly drawn in Royal Hunt Cup; outclassed in Group 3 on soft ground.
But a stone better off for a four-and-a-quarter-lengths beating by Velox in the Sandown Challenge in July, and eighth in this race last year.
ABCDE Pacific Heights
Another Spring handicap winner on soft and only 13th in this last year, 6lb lower. Under-achiever since three wins out of four in 2014 but stable always capable of big-handicap surprise and it had five winners last week.
ABCDE Queensberry Rules
Late developer who had to wait 16 months for a third win after a Spring double last year. Placed in the Britannia at Royal Ascot but down the field in the Cambridgeshire Finally returned to form at York last month.
ABCDE Velox
Would have won the Investec Mile at Epsom in June but was very badly hampered. Beat Gabrial’s Kaka in the Sandown Challenge next time out but is 9lb higher in the ratings for it. Split Bronze Angel and Maverick Wave at Doncaster recently.
ABCDEX Extremity
Must defy rise in grade and weight (15lb) since winning at Goodwood in July. Beaten narrowly by Master Of The World in class-2 at York but turned the tables at Thirsk on softer ground. Penalty for that is bad news, according to the stats.
ABCD Bancnuanaheireann
Fourth in the 2012 Cambridgeshire, he won the consolation Silver version last season. Still 5lb higher and well behind Queensberry Rules at the York Ebor meeting.
ABDE Boomshackerlacker
Has kept Listed company on softish ground in France for most of his career since winning in the Pattern as a two-year-old, His nemesis in England was Penitent (beaten by him twice on the soft at Sandown and Newmarket).
ABDE First Flight
Lightly raced and left alone by the handicapper for success at Newmarket a grade lower and second to Air Pilot at Newbury. A 4lb turnaround in weight doesn’t look enough and he has a poor record in a fight.
ABDE Sea Shanty
Back-to-back mile wins at Sandown and Kempton in the Spring cost him only 7lb rise and he ran a cracker to be fourth for The Queen in the Royal Hunt Cup, but that was two races in four days and he’s shown poor form since over 10f.
ABEX Big Johnny D
His hat-trick of last season raised him 22lb but he shrugged that off in mile races at Chester in June and Carlisle more recently. The trainer is on record as saying that 10-12 furlongs is the wrong trip for him so the 9f of this Cambridgeshire is probably as far as he wants to go.
ABE Lawmans Thunder
Kempton-(AW)-only winner who has failed there, too, since raised 12lb in the Spring.
ACDE Bartack
Looks exposed with 11 runs already this season, 24 in all. But won the Ripon Rowels (1m) in August. Badly off with Bronze Angel on earlier form.
ACDE Bronze Angel
Cambridgeshire winner of 2012 but well down the field last year. Fourth in the Buckingham Palace Stakes (7f) at Royal Ascot heralded return to form over a mile at York when he gave 15lb and a beating to Bartack.
ACDE Ingleby Angel
Hat-trick scorer last backend, and the ‘moral’ in this year’s Thirsk Hunt Cup, less than a length off the winner, giving him weight Better off with Bartack, who beat him into fifth in the Ripon Rowels.
ACDE Niceofyoutotellme
Won a handicap at Newmarket over this kin d of trip in the Spring and hampered when only five lengths down in the Royal Hunt Cup. Highly regarded, goes well fresh and has James Doyle booked.
ACD Don’t Call Me
Beat Tenor in the Shergar Cup but that musical-jockeys form is unreliable and hasn’t won anything else for two years.
ACD Quick Wit
Has raced in the Pattern without success, since winning at Doncaster in July last year. Drop in grade might help.
ACD Tres Coronas
Third to Educate in this race last year but 7lb higher now and needs some rain.
ADE Balty Boys
Group-3 second in Superior Mile at Haydock has cost him his handicap mark, put up 9lb higher than his last winning rating.
ADE Fort Bastion
Has struggled off higher mark since Thirsk Hunt Cup winner and Hambleton Stakes runner-up in the Spring but was doing his best work in the closing stages in big mile handicap at Goodwood in August.
ADE Soviet Rock
Completed a hat-trick in Spring of 2013 and in good form again a year on, City and Suburban third and Lingfield winner. His only late-season success came on heavy ground.
AE Basem
Very lightly raced, Basem is a Pivotal and will win another handicap, once the rains come this autumn.
AE Genius Boy
Has had a long season of 10 races since March, winning five of them, but he’s still an unknown quantity dropped back from Group level after being unable to cope with heavy ground at Chepstow.
AE Indian Chief
Won for Aidan O’Brien on soft ground as a three-year-old and mainly out of his depth for the rest of that season – not seen since – mainly at Group level, though third in the Dante Stakes and could bounce back.
AE Maverick Wave
Not far behind Bronze Angel and Velox when they were placed at Doncaster last month. Has had only four races in his life, and another who ‘could be anything.’
A Spa’s Dancer
Hasn’t won a race since the Sandown Whitsun Cup in May 2013 but ran a fine second to Gabrial’s Kaka in the Newbury Spring Cup and was second in the Zetland Gold Cup, though has struggled with extra weight since.
BCDE Educate, BCDEX Tiger’s Tale, BCD Energia Davos, BCD The Rectifier, BCDEX Air Pilot, BCX Ree’s Rascal, BDE Forgotten Hero, BDE Mange All, BDE Top of The Glas, BE Munaaser, CDE Yeager, CE Cornrow, CE Homage, DEX Tenor, E Lacan, EX Gm Hopkins
GRANDEUR GRAND IF IT STAYS FIRM
GOODWOOD Local trainer Amanda Perrett targets the 1m 3f handicap (3.15), her form in the race in the last nine years 1014100.
The Racing Post racereader was so impressed with Spacelab’s maiden win at Lingfield that he rated her a black-type filly. If he is halfway right, she must win this, despite giving 19lb to King Calypso, whose back-to-back wins have been on AW surfaces.
Grandeur (3.50) goes for a repeat in the Listed but younger horses have won this eight years in a row. The question-mark over the race as I write is whether any rain hit the course this morning. As ever, the many online forecasts are a jumble of contradiction.
Danadana and Grandeur need it fast, while Be My Gal and course-and-distance Listed winner, Marsh Daisy, a daughter of Pivotal, have done best on soft ground.
Grandeur should get the surface he needs and loves the track (Goodwood form figures 2111) but any one of the three-year-olds could improve, if the ground changes. Keep a wary eye open.
REDCAR Seven times in nine years, the winner of the nursery (2.50) has come from a double-figure stall or one just below (9 11 13 11 13 18) and it’s been a horse with four or more starts.
Only one of the last eight to score carried less than 9st. So we want an experienced animal already rated better than most in the field and with the right draw.
This year that all adds add up to Charlotte’s Secret, who made late headway on the course over 7f last time out, and 15.0 offer on BETDAQ, Upward Trend, stepping up to a mile, down two grades.
Luca Cumani has an incredible 44% record with handicap debutants and Past Forgetting (4.35) has shown enough to suggest she will be in the money, though might not want the ground too firm.
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked to win 20 points each, except the Special Bet)
BET 3.3pts win CHARLOTTE’S SECRET and 1.4pts win and place UPWARD TREND (2.50 Redcar)
BET 5.5pts win PAST FORGETTING (4.35 Redcar)
SPECIAL BET: 10pts win on each and 2pts win double SPACELAB (nap, 3.15 Goodwood) and GRANDEUR (3.50 Goodwood)
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