BACK-TO-BACK NAPS AT GALWAY: Daqman followed up Bachasson (WON 5-4) on the opening day with a banker nap on Long Dog (WON 1-2) yesterday and goes for the hat-trick now with Time To Inspire.
81-1 ONE-TWO AT GOODWOOD: It wasn’t so easy at Goodwood but Daqman started the day with a one-two that paid 81-1 for the forecast with Ladbrokes:
WON 8-1 MOUNT LOGAN (11.0 Betdaq)
2nd 10-1 ELHAAME
84-POINT GAP SINCE SATURDAY: Mount Logan levelled the scores with Pricewise for the week, taking the challenge to Daqman 67, Pricewise 11 (overall 208-84), with Daqman 44 points in profit since Saturday; Pricewise down 40 (to 10-point level stakes at SP).
GOLD BANKER DOUBLE BID: Today’s Goodwood gamble from Daqman is a double Gold Banker in the Sussex Stakes and the Molecomb.
SQUADRON LEADER OF THE MARATHON PACK
2.00 Goodwood Stakes Inside stalls (4, 2, 5 were first second and fourth) took the big-field long-distance event yesterday. But Pilgrims Rest (in 3), Boite (4), Needless Shouting (8) and Number One London (11) are all front runners, so I can see an early surge from the low numbers.
It should all be helpful to William of Orange, who has beaten Taws (close to Teak on Royal Ascot form) and Needless Shouting in a light season. And the improver may be Air Squadron, who keeps on winning but is unexposed beyond 14 furlongs since he came good.
The snag with this obvious form is that they have to go 2m 5f, and that suggests a magnificent seven – Teak, Taws, Boite, Mawaqeet, Number One London, See And Be Seen, Longshadow and Bohemian Rhapsody – the only ones to have gone anywhere near this far.
On current trainer form, the choice is from Gabrial’s Star, Teak, Taws, Boite, Mawaqeet, Wordiness, See And Be Seen, Sands Of Fortune, Air Squadron, Number One London and Rosairlie.
I’m going for the lightweights, assuming that the strong gallop will make this a very tough test. Air Squadron (11.0 on BETDAQ early mouse) has been favourite eight races in a row, which shows what confidence they have in him, and he races as though this marathon will suit even better.
Gaviar (13.5) has long been laid out for this, with four Goodwood runs already – including defeat of last year’s winner, Teak – always suggesting that today’s race would be his trip.
2.35 Goodwood (Gordon Stakes) Sir Michael Stoute has used the Gordon Stakes as a stepping-stone for horses ascending to the very top of the tree, Conduit, Harbinger and Snow Sky since 2008.
The trio landed a St Leger, Breeders Cup, King George (twice), John Porter, Ormonde, Hardwicke (twice) and Yorkshire Cup!
Disegno, this year’s Stoute contender, seemed to be continually baulked in his run at Royal Ascot (1m 2f) and today’s step up in trip should suit.
Highland Reel, a winner here last season, was second in the French Derby but that form wasn’t up to much (I followed it; so I should know), and he sweated up and was nearly 12 lengths down in the Irish version. He has to bounce back here.
If there’s still ease in the surface, it will suit Medrano, who stormed away from Prince Gargarin and Red Tornado in a Listed, though the time was slow.
It’s more likely to be drying ground today, which should suit Disegno, Space Age and Scottish, though Space Age, Scottish and Proposed all like to run to run freely. This seems to set up a win and place Disegno.
SOLOW RATES A GOLD BANKER IN THE SUSSEX
3.10 Goodwood (Sussex Stakes) First the weather blew Golden Horn from the King George then soaked Gleneagles from this Sussex Stakes though, in the event, the ground is probably fine for him.
I didn’t much rate Postponed, the winner at Ascot by default, but I think we might have a champion here in Solow.
Solow has won seven in a row now and he has several times quickened off today’s kind of surface.
Night of Thunder, who holds Arod, Here Comes When and Cougar Mountan on Lockinge form, was left standing by Solow at Ascot. Gold banker.
3.45 Goodwood (Molecomb Stakes) We’ve had a couple of Flying Childers winners out of this (and a Cornwallis) in recent years but it doesn’t produce long-term class.
Nothing much from them when they are three, if they even train on that far. Finjaan won a Lennox; that’s the best foot forward in the decade.
The master stable for precocious two-year-olds, the Hannon emporium, has won three times, which helps explain why King Of Rooks is so short.
I expect King Of Rooks to chase Pity Cash, whose Chester third to Gutaifan was let down by Strong Challenge yesterday.
Kachy, Muhadathat and Rouleau have a hard step up of five grades from class 4, though anything’s possible with these lightly raced two-year-olds.
The only obvious threat to King Of Rooks is Lathom. Ran a stinker in the Windsor Castle at Royal Ascot but came good at Newbury. Third (Field Of Vision) and fourth are still maidens and only Great Page – recent third to Besharah – gives the form any credence.
Since Great Page is also with Team Hannon, it all seems to add up to a gold banker on King Of Rooks.
4.55 Goodwood Three-year-olds dominate (7-3 in the decade) and Tazffin, Only Joking and Hala Madrid are from stables in good form.
I expect Serena Grae (stall 13) to get across to lead and, with her stable in top gear – five consecutive places until yesterday – the grey filly looks a potential trade with a first position of 24.0 on BETDAQ early mouse.
Only Joking, Rosslare, Edge Of Heaven and Forest Maiden have all led and picking the best second-season filly is a tricky.
Tazffin is the one on form, runner-up to subsequent Irish Oaks winner Covert Love, and staying on in a Listed at Ascot, with trainer Roger Varian in cracking form (10 winners in 12 days).
DAVY RUSSELL CAN RULE IN THE GALWAY PLATE
3.00 Galway Dermot Weld is 1113 in this since 2009 but you take a partisan choice of two odds-on losers, Weld’s Stuccodor and the Willie Mullins recruit from John Gosden, Thomas Hobson. Not for me.
3.35 Galway Every winner of this had already run well in June or July, and Red Four and Havana Dancer, though winners on their last day, have to contend with more recent form.
Lilly The Lioness was placed twice at this meeting a year ago and her good recent form gives us something to go to war with. Mark Enright was magic on Empresario yesterday.
4.10 Galway No winner of this carried above 11st 1lb in the decade, and seven out of 10 were aged four to six. Gordon Elliott seems to have all options covered with Bank Bonus, Be Seeing You and Disputed all fitting the stats.
But I shall take the intriguing trainer-jockey combo of Aidan O’Btien and Barry Geraghty with Lone Star, dropped from Graded company into his first handicap and always crying out for this step up in trip.
4.45 Galway Three-year-olds have won six times in the decade, but only with top trainers O’Brien, Mullins and Weld who has Time To Inspire blinkered first time. Nap and one for your Daq Multiples.
5.30 Galway Plate A big weight hasn’t won since the field encountered firm ground in 2005 and Ansar loved it. Also isolated in a one-in-10 stat are horses of a double-figure age.
It’s a race for young horses on or below the weight ceiling, and Willie Mullins pick of five, Alelchi Inois, must go close.
Rule Of The World, a top-grade hurdler, runner-up in the Irish Grand National, has the experience – and Davy Russell – to put him in the frame for the 14th time in 18 starts still standing.
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked to win 30 points, except bankers and Galway nap)
BET 3pts win AIR SQUADRON and 2.4pts win GAVIAR (2.00 Goodwood)
BET 4.6pts win and place DISEGNO (2.35 Goodwood)
GOLD BANKER: 30pts win (Goodwood nap) SOLOW (3.10 Goodwood)
GOLD BANKER: 30pts win KING OF ROOKS (3.45 Goodwood)
BET 3pts win and place LILLY THE LIONESS (3.35 Galway)
BET 4.5pts win LONE TAR (4.10 Galway)
BET 12pts win (Galway nap to win 20) TIME TO INSPIRE (4.45 Galway)
BET 4.6pts win TAZFFIN, and 1.3pts win and place SERENA GRAE (4.55 Goodwood)
BET 5pts win ALEICHI INOIS and 2.3pts win and place RULE THE WORLD (5.30 Galway)
DAQ MULTIPLES: 3pt win treble SOLOW (3.10 Goodwood), KING OF ROOKS (3.45 Goodwod), TIME TO INSPIRE (4.45 Galway)
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