FOUR DAYS IN A ROW: 40 POINTS: Daqman has banked almost 40 points from eight winners in four consecutive days of profit, with three winning naps and bets up to 9.0 in morning offers on Betdaq Betting Exchange.
Tuesday: profit on the day 16.95 points
WON 4-1 STAR OF ST JAMES BETDAQ 9.0 taken
WON 11-8 FOINIX (nap) BETDAQ 3.0 taken
Monday: profit on the day 5 points
WON 3-1 ALACRITY BETDAQ XSP 4.52
Sunday: profit on the day 10.40 points
WON 9-10 CHARYN (Prix Jacques Le Marois) BETDAQ 3.1 taken
WON 13-8 LESLEYS BOY (nap) BETDAQ XSP 2.68
Saturday: profit on the day 6.76 points
WON 5-6 JARRAAF (Shergar Cup Sprint, nap) BETDAQ 2.62 taken
WON 11-8 LAKE VICTORIA BETDAQ 3.1 doubled with Jarraaf
WON 9-2 INSANITY (Shergar Cup Challenge) BETDAQ 6.3 taken
THE ARC IS ON THEIR MIND
ONE weekend winner didn’t even make the headlines and, in most reports, was a hoofnote to the story of the day, Charyn’s magnificent Jacques Le Marois at Deauville.
But in Germany, itself able to produce an Arc winner, Danedream, and with 118-rated Fantastic Moon its horse of the year for 2023, they saw Al Riffa reach that very mark already.
Al Riffa, trained by Joseph O’Brien, and ridden by Dylan Brown McMonagle, went five-lengths clear in the final furlong of the Grosser Preis von Berlin at the Hoppegarten, earning quotes for the English and Irish Champion Stakes, even the Arc.
Should Al Riffa run in one of the top 1m 2f races, he is likely to fight a rematch with City Of Troy, who beat him only a length in the Eclipse, receiving 10lb three-year-olds’ allowance.
The third horse home, Ghostwriter, finished third, beaten two lengths, but had been almost a further two lengths behind a ready winner for the French, Look de Vega, in the Chantilly Derby.
Al Riffa looked for all the world as if he needed Sunday’s 1m 4f and Joseph O’Brien couldn’t have picked a better race than the Berlin Group 1 to find out. The Hoppegarten adventure proved a huge success, and an exciting portent, in a race which has thrown up Torquator Tasso and Alpinista among recent Arc winners.
A great boost – if one was needed – for Al Riffa’s sire, Wootton Bassett, best known for 1m 2f champion of England and Ireland, Almanzor. And the dam? Love On My Mind; by Galileo, of course.
PARTHENON IN RARE VISIT
⭕ 3.00 and 3.30 Salisbury (Stonehenge Stakes) Ryan Moore has seven rides here today, following on a Sunday double at Deauville, one of them for the Gosdens, one for Joseph O’Brien with that rodeo ride on Inspiral in between.
The Joseph O’Brien winner is another I may regret missing out of the Fortune Cookies: the two-year-old Cowardofthecounty.
He went clear in the 7f Group 3, preventing a hat-trick by another Wootton Bassett, called Houquetot, for Christopher Head.
Ryan Moore is here for both days of this Salisbury meeting, with The Parthenon his only ride today for Aidan O’Brien but Shout (3.00) earlier on for the Crisfords made all here at Salisbury, beating a subsequent nursery winner.
Moore has five booked rides there tomorrow, again just the one for O’Brien, also a two-year-old, Butterfly Wings, a Justify filly out of a Galileo mare, Butterflies, a half-sister to Giants Causeway. She sounds exciting.
The Parthenon gave himself work to do with a slow start at Gowran under Wayne Lordan but got the job done in the end at 11-4 on favourite.
New Century is a son of Andrew Balding’s 2,000 Guineas hero, Kameko, the Futurity winner at Newcastle as a juvenile.
The Frankel colt Luther is already a winner at Salisbury but The Parthenon is sent to the course today to catch the fast ground.
Aidan O’Brien was having his first runner at Salisbury for 18 years when Cambridge scored here last season. The Parthenon is his second.
PHONE HAS THEIR NUMBER
⭕ 4.30 Salisbury (Upavon Fillies Stakes) Another Listed worth watching. Francophone, grand-daughter of Frankel, has already won one, the old Oaks trial, Height Of Fashion (ex-Lupe) Stakes at Goodwood.
It didn’t tell us much but three-year-olds have won this four years running and, if you leave soft-ground form out of her results, Francophone is 2121, and she is entered in the Moyglare.
The royal runner, Rainbows Edge, ‘could be anything’, but beat nothing well at Newmarket, the runner-up beaten favourite in a class-4 handicap next time.
Sea Of Roses won as a two-year-old on soft but is 0-11 since, placed in a Group 3 the last day, with 28-1 ‘no-confidence’ vote after five of six, beaten favourite in a Goodwood Listed before that.
⭕ 7.00 Kempton Al Rufaa! No; he’s no Al Riffa but a good 38lb down the ladder, although he seems to merit joint-top weight in this class-4 handicap in the London Mile series.
Sennockian, Sennockian Song, Sennockian Star.. remember them? All trained by Mark Johnston, yet Sennockian means a student at Sevenoaks School in Kent.
The current Sennockian rattled off an AW hat-trick at the start of the year for Mark’s son, Charlie, who brings him down from Middleham, with Hollie Doyle booked. Charlie has had 61 placed at Kempton this season (17 winners).
DAQMAN’S BETS
3.0 Salisbury (win 10)
BET 5pts win SHOUT
3.30 Salisbury (win 10)
BET 8pts win THE PARTHENON
4.30 Salisbury (win 12, nap)
BET 4pts win FRANCOPHONE
7.00 Kempton (win 12)
BET 1pt win SENNOCKIAN
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