BIG-RACE PREVIEWS BY DAQMAN: Very moderate racing and hard to pick from very moderate horses so Daqman looks forward to Newbury on Saturday and the Super Sprint plus the Curragh feature, the Irish Oaks, with previews of form and ratings.
NEIGHBOURS’ TRIP TO YORKSHIRE: Southern trainers target Catterick today, including raiders from neighbouring Hampshire yards. Daqman smells a treble chance.
IRISH OAKS FORM AND RATINGS
⭕ 3.45 Curragh, Saturday (Irish Oaks): Epsom Oaks (two off 120) and Ribblesdale winners (three, rated 107, 109 and 110) have won the Irish Oaks in the last decade. This is how Saturday’s acceptors rate officially, with their best past performance:
114 SAVETHELASTDANCE (Galileo, Aidan O’Brien) Won the Cheshire Oaks, back to back with her maiden, on heavy and soft, but beaten in the Epsom Oaks on firm ground by Soul Sister.
110 COMHRA (Vocalised, Jim Bolger) Third in the Irish 1,000 Guineas to Tahiyra, beaten a length and threequarters; some interference after leaving the starting stalls and short of room two out.
Last of nine to Via Sistina in the Pretty Polly Stakes (1m 2f), said to be suffering from an allergy.
110 WARM HEART (Galileo, Aidan O’Brien) landed a hat-trick on soft-heavy (1m 2f), good (1m 2f beating Bluestocking) and good to firm (1m 4f beating Lumiere Rock and Bluestocking in the Ribblesdale; went clear, kept on well).
105 LUMIERE ROCK (Saxon Warrior, Joseph O’Brien) 2yo Group-3 winner on yielding-soft; runner-up in the Blue Wind (1m 2f yielding) in the Spring but improved on firm, runner-up to Warm Heart in the Ribblesdale; not clear run two out but no match for the winner.
103 BLUESTOCKING (Camelot, Ralph Beckett) Runner-up twice to Warm Heart, 1m 2f and 1m 4f Ribblesdale; not clear run over 2f out, switched, stayed on, third.
101 AZAZAT (Camelot, Dermot Weld) Third to Savethelastdance in Spring maiden; second in the Munster Oaks to Pretty Polly fourth, Rosscarbery (110 rated). Broke her maiden on deep ground.
098 BE HAPPY (Camelot, Aidan O’Brien) Group-3 third at Saint-Cloud (1m 2.5f soft) and Lingfield Oaks Trial runner-up to subsequent Epsom Oaks seventh.
098 LIBRARY (Galileo, Aidan O’Brien) Fourth, with Azazat second, and Lambada fifth, in the Munster Oaks.
Won Listed Naas Oaks Trial (1m 2f, going good) but got no run, weakened, the last day, 7th in Group-3 1m 6f at Leopardstown.
093 LAMBADA (Dubawi, Aidan O’Brien) Sixth Musidora, 5th Munster Oaks, 4th Naas Oaks Trial but 10 of 11, seven lengths behind Library in Group-3 1m 6f at Leopardstown.
MAY LA FORZA BE WITH YOU
⭕ 2.52 Catterick: Celebrating 10 years at Whitsbury, you’d expect to see Marcus Tregoning at one of his local courses, Bath, today but he’s paying only his second-ever visit to Catterick.
The reason is his daughter Alice’s second-ever ride but, whereas Marcus’s sole visit to the Yorkshire track landed him an embarrassing 0-1 record, Alice’s adventures has her 1-1 from an earlier trip North.
Her race-riding debut at Wolverhampton on Monday produced a scintillating victory on her father’s Al Azhar, with Raceform reporting: ‘Alice really organised the four-year-old after he was slowly into his stride, sweeping on by in the final furlong, despite not getting a clear run three out.’
Better known for her showjumping expertise, Alice, on La Forza, intends to keep her 100% record. La Forza was beaten only a neck at Bath in May.
He ran really well after nine months off and has been given time to avoid ‘the bounce’ and is set up nicely here, two furlongs further, but with Alice’s 3lb claim putting him among the bottomweights.
DIAMOND DAY FOR BECKETT
⭕ 4.22 Catterick Another southern raider, Diamond Vega, is from Ralph Beckett’s yard 27 miles from Whitsbury at Kimpton, the other side of Salisbury.
Do we smell a neighbour’s plot, hatched on the Hampshire downs? I think we should be told.
In fact, Beckett may already have been in the Catterick winner’s enclosure with the odds-on Campaign Trail (2.22 race) ridden, like Diamond Vega, by the impressive Rossa Ryan.
Rossa somehow got Shaquille to climb out of his stall and win the July Cup in madcap manner at Newmarket on Saturday, back to back with the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot..
Catterick is reported ‘good to soft’ with showers likely this morning. The more the merrier for a three-year-old filly who scored on heavy for Ryan at Haydock in October.
Diamond Vega showed signs of doing a Shaquille that day, taking a keen hold, jumping the path and having to be shaken up after not getting a clear run two out. Once again, Rossa Ryan was up to the task.
FALCON CAN SWOOP AGAIN
⭕ 5.35 Yarmouth I tried to get on a Sir Mark Prescott sequence horse the other day but should have waited for this one: Desert Falcon, out of the favoured one stall.
‘Just needs steering’. Says my man. Dangers with higher draws are Marinara (Kaiya Fraser has had eight winners this year) and Dark Kestrel (Benoit De La Sayette, as in ‘say no more).’
DAQMAN BETS on Betdaq Betting Exchange
2.52 Catterick (win 12, nap)
BET 4pts win LA FORZA
4.22 Catterick (win 10)
BET 5pts win DIAMOND VEGA
5.35 Yarmouth (win 10)
BET 2.25pts win DESERT FALCON
BET 1.25pts win MARINARA
DAQ MULTIPLES
3 x 2pt win doubles and a 1pt treble
CAMPAIGN TRAIL (2.22 Catterick)
LA FORZA (2.52 Catterick)
DIAMOND VEGA (4.22 Catterick)
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