6-1 CUP GLORY AND 60 UP ON PRICEWISE: The maestro Daqman played Stradivarius (WON 6-1 from 11.5 on BETDAQ) and Desert Skyline (3rd 14-1) for the Goodwood Cup yesterday and left the violins for Pricewise as our man made it SIXTY up for the season against 10 for the Racing Post man with four big-race winners on the trot (see below).
DAQMAN CLEAR LEADER BY 275 POINTS: In fact, with a worthy point for the place profit from the third horse, Desert Skyline (quoted in his column at 32.0 on BETDAQ), the scores are now Daqman 61, Pricewise 10, with 275 points separating them in a single-unit level-stakes assessment of profit. Since Friday, Daqman has won 6-0.
* Pricewise races today: 2.25 Goodwood, 5.35 Galway
THE BIG-VALUE DAQMAN BULL’S-EYES
Now it’s four! Daqman has won at least 50 points per race from the last four features in England, Ireland and France since Friday, a day-by-day tipping conquest worth £7,520 to £100 stakes on the four bets.
That was only at SP! If you had been able to play the same stakes on BETDAQ at the morning prices quoted in the Daqman column, you’d have won £11,430.
WON 50-1 STAMP HILL (from 64.0 BETDAQ) Saturday
WON 16-5 ROLY POLY (from 6.8 on BETDAQ) Sunday
WON 16-1 WHISKEY SOUR (at 32.0 BETDAQ) Monday
WON 6-1 STRADIVARIUS (at 11.5 BETDAQ) Tuesday
Daqman is king of the tipsters, because BETDAQ is the value facilitator, with prices way above those available to Pricewise, despite his daily published search in the Racing Post through 12 different bookmakers, opting for the seeming best odds among them.
Daqman’s four consecutive big-race winners, one a 50-1 shot, three nominated for win-50 Bull’s Eye Bets, were in the Ascot International, the Prix Rothschild, the first big handicap at Galway and yesterday’s Goodwood Cup. He also won with a gold banker on the King George.
FEATHERS FLY WITH HAWKERLAND
1.50 Goodwood Handicap Star Rider is 9lb higher and likely to face different conditions from the ‘good to firm’ when he won it last year, with rain forecast.
In any case, the form didn’t amount to much. The runner-up Percy Veer is back today after a 168-day rest, connections hoping his holiday will stem the blood-letting of 17 consecutive defeats, but he’s held by Golden Doyen on last autumn’s form.
Star Rider’s stable is more likely to get involved via t he consistent Aurora Gray, usually good for a place.
Marcus Tregoning is bullish that Hawkerland (around 7.0 on BETDAQ) can leap three grades from his easy win on the last day Carries a featherweight, and progeny of both sire and dam’s sire do well on the soft .
2.25 Goodwood Yesterday’s Goodwood Cup winner and third, Stradivaruus and Desert Skyline, give us pointers to this.
Sofia’s Rock (Betdaq 8.2) , whowas half a length off Desert Skyline, when they met at the July Meeting, is a strong Mark Johnston front-runner, winner on both firm and soft. Secret Advisor (6.0) was third to Stradivarius in the Queen’s vase
RAIN CAN MAKE A FOOL OF WESLEY
3.00 Goodwood (Molecomb Stakes) I doubt Wesley Ward will be Happy Like A Fool, singing in t he rain with his fast-ground Royal Ascot runner-up.
We don’t know much about the ability of any of these on an easy surface, but Battle Of Jericho’s 16.0 is tempting for a pound, a 6f winner on yielding, dropped back in trip and likely to try t o play catch-me.
But the same applies to Invincible Army (6.4), down to the minimum from his July Stakes fourth. Who can keep up with Wesley ‘s Fool and effect a finish on what could be soft ground?
3.35 Goodwood (Sussex Stakes) Time marches on and Barney Roy has moved up my ratings 6lb ahead of the colt he ran up to in the 2,000 Guineas.
Since then, t he hero of that hour, Churchill, has beaten the Jean Prat winner, Thunder Snow, but he and Barney left Churchill standing, turned over at odds in at Royal Ascot (St James’s Palace Stakes).
Was Churchill coming to t he end of the road after seven consecutive victories.? Will Zelzal come here for the good ground and find himself ankle-wet from a Sussex squall?
You can’t afford question marks in betting unless the odds are very much in your favour, so it has to be Ribchester – the tank who acts on any going – for a banker bet at slightly better than even mnoney
IT’S ON A PLATE FOR SLOWMOTION
5.35 Galway Plate Only one winner this century has carried 11st or more and that was the second leg of Ansar’s back-to-back wins (2004-5).
Now last year’s winner, Lord Scoundrel, tries to do the same, 11lb higher as he attempts the double, so needing all of the half-stone his claimer puts in to help, and tongue-tied first time. Trainer Gordon Elliott hopes it will all count .
It will have to. For instance, last year’s length-and-a-quarter runner-up, Aleichi Inois, who gave away 13lb that day, is set to meet him again, but at levels.
Also among the top-weights, Sandymount Duke, tries to make a 19lb leap into the big time, his total penalties for landing a hat-trick for Jessica Harrington.
Jessica will be hoping the showers are light. The Duke’s form on anything worse than ‘good’ is 04340, quite a contrast to his sound-surface figures since last June of 11111.
But his tough task is highlighted by the difference in weight between The Duke and Heron Heights. They met at levels at the Punchestown festival. Heron Heights looks threatening now off only 10st 2lb.
Another good-ground horse, Vintage Vinnie, a son of Vinnie Roe out of a Bob’s Return mare, was fifth at Punchestown but looked progressive when scoring with ridiculous ease at the Aintree Festival.
Slowmotion, whose stable has been in cracking form, won three out of five in the Spring, taking on his first big field when coming just too late to catch the Mares’ Chase winner at the same Punchestown meeting over a furlong and a half shorter than today.
The prolific Shaneshill and yet another pair from my Punchestown notebook, Balko des Flos and Arbre De Vie – placed in the same race at the festival – clearly have fine chances
Bu this is a very open contest and I prefer the offers about Slowmotion (16.5), Vintage Vinnie (34.0) and Heron Heights (36.0) for another bull’s-eye win-50 tilt.
DAQMAN’S BETS
1.50 Goodwood: to win 30
BET 5pts win and place HAWKERLAND
2.25 Goodwood: to win 30
BET 6pts win SECRET ADVISOR
BET 4pts win SOFIA’S ROCK
3.00 Goodwood: to win 30
BET 5.5pts win INVINCIBLE ARMY
BET 2pts win and place BATTLE OF JERICHO
3.35 Goodwood: to win 20
BANKER BET 20pts win (nap) RIBCHESTER
3.50 Galway: to win 30
BET 5pts win THE BIRDIE CROWE
4.10 Goodwood: to win 20
BET 1.4pts win and place THREADING
5.35 Galway: bull’s-eye bets, each to win 50
BET 3.2pts win and place SLOWMOTION
BET 1.5pts win and place VINTAGE VINNIE
BET 1.4pts win and place HERON HEIGHTS
5.50 Goodwood: to win 30
BET 2.5pts win and place MEDIEVAL
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