BANKER BET ON HIDDEN HORSE: Daqman, whose naps still stand at seven in eight days after the Tuesday non-runner, and whose Hidden Horses are 1-1, moves all in on one at Pontefract today. Banker. Nap. Hidden Horse. And anchor for his Daq Multiples.
22 MEETINGS IN 4-DAY SPREE: With five English meetings today, six tomorrow and Saturday, and five on Friday, Daqman is pledged to try to winkle out the pearls from this huge oyster bed of bets. He picks just three races today.
PYROCUMULUS IN FORM FOR THE MILE
3.20 The Brighton Mile I find looking for the winners at Brighton as tricky as spotting Kolly Kibber (’I claim the prize’) among a racecrowd of many thousands in the days of the all-Pullman Brighton Belle ‘rattler’ from London.
That’s my brief history of the track, made famous in Brighton Rock. The recent stats history of the race is just as succinct: horses aged three and four win it, nine times out of 10.
The little known Ivan Furtado – I will have to tell some of you he’s a trainer not a horse – is the immediate focus of our attention.
The former assistant to Roger Charlton, best known as the work rider for Al Kazeem (retired yesterday), is striking at 21%, and has just had two winners from four starters.
Hulcolt has had two outings for Furtado since leaving Garry Moss and thus far Furtado has ‘done a David O’Meara’, improving his acquisition 5lb with a win and a second at Beverley.
He needs more today if he is finally to bridge the gap from class 5 (form figures 410100) to class 4 (002).
Furtado has booked Silvestre De Sousa for his two recent winners, but the jockeys’ title favourite has picked, or been picked by, Michael Blake instead for the Mile.
His mount, Pick A Little, loves Brighton (33110 in five outings) and firm ground, and has scored four times from six attempts since the Spring, also class 5 and 6.
Swiss Cross is the genuine class-4 performer of the race and could be a danger to all despite his age. The stable is bullish.
But I shall go with the three-year-old Pyrocumulus (5.8 in the BETDAQ orange, early mouse). He keeps on running – seven times this year – and keeps on winning, with four successes since March.
He’s 5lb worse off with Shifting Star on Windsor form but the handicapper says he’s improved 6lb since then. Gets 11lb from Hulcolt and 10lb from Swiss Cross. Can he hold his form?
HIDDEN HORSE PENHILL RATES BANKER
3.40 Pontefract Hernandoshideaway was coming along nicely in May but we haven’t seen him since. Craggaknock has also been sidelined, again with no explanation to the punter.
Both have form which suggests they could do with some rain, and in fact Craggaknock has been pulled out since I put pen to paper here.
It’s a race that often goes to southern raiders, though Mark Johnston trained one of the best recent winners, Sir Graham Wade, and now has another front-runner, Leaderene, looking very dangerous but easy to back at 5.5 this morning.
Blue Hussar, Liberty Red and Qanan have also led in recent events, so – even with a small field – there should be a good pace to the race, which will suit a hold-up horse.
That all leads me to the come-from-behind topweight Penhill who has sneaked into a class 3 after running decent races with this rating in class 2.
I see Penhill as a hidden horse here, representing a class of animal far better than you see in this field, and he should be odds on, not the 3.2 spotted in the BETDAQ orange this morning.
At Ascot in May he had Oasis Fantasy back in third before that one ran Northumberland Plate winner, Quest For More, to half a length.
The fourth horse in the Ascot race, Noble Gift, ran Mount Logan to less than two lengths before that one got within a length of winning the Wolferton Handicap at Royal Ascot.
Around a year ago, Penhill himself beat the recent Old Newton Cup winner, Notarised, and his trainer, Luca Cumani, is in form with six winners in the last fortnight.
He takes Penhill on a solo trip to Pontefract, where he has a 38% strike-rate. Banker nap.
NEMORALIA A STAND-OUT AT KEMPTON
7.10 Kempton This is a must watch. Honorina is entered in the Rockfel, Mise En Rose in a big Sales race, Nemoralia in Lowther, Rockfel, Moyglare and Cheveley Park.
Nemoralia’s entries, and her second to the Royal Ascot Chesham runner-up Ballydoyle (beaten a short-head), suggests that she is outstanding here.
She’s a short price and I don’t do banker states on horses that have never won a race. So I’m doubling her with Penhill.
DAQMAN’S BETS
BET 4pts win (to win 20) PYROCUMULUS (3.20 Brighton)
HIDDEN HORSE: BANKER: BET 20pts win (nap at SP) PENHILL (3.40 Pontefract)
DAQ MULTIPLES: 4pts win double PENHILL (3.40 Pontefract) and NEMORALIA (7.10 Kempton), plus 1pt win treble the same two with PYROCUMULUS (3.20 Brighton)
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