NAPS HAT-TRICK AND 300-POINTS BID TODAY: Daqman has filled the gap between the big-time meetings with four winners out of six at the gaff tracks, including his last two naps, Bandsman (WON 1-1 supernap) and yesterday Georgian Manor (WON 8-11 nap), so that his profit since last Thursday is 285 points. He wants the 300 today.
YORK TARGET IS THE TON UP OVER PRICEWISE: Today Daqman goes to York with another target: to increase the profits gap between himself and Pricewise to 100 points. Current winners score Daqman 21, Pricewise 6. Profits yield to one-point level stakes +29 Daqman -65 Pricewise (difference 94 points). Today’s York headlines:
HAMADA HOT SPOT IN THE HANDICAP
THE YORK DRUM BEATS FOR TERUNTUM
9.0 CHANCE CAN LEAD ANGEL A DANCE
GOSDEN IN OAKS-TEST GARDEN PARTY
HAMADA HOT SPOT IN THE HANDICAP
2.20 York Front and van runners can be hard to beat when the ground is riding fast at York. Crowned Eagle (worries about the ground) and Hamada should get flyers.
Now Children and Banksea the bridesmaid are both stepping up to a new trip so, presumably, will be saved for a late run, by which time the pacey duo may have opened up a gap. Island Brave is short of turf experience.
Hamada (3.5 BETDAQ favourite as I write) looks nicely poised in the handicap
THE YORK DRUM BEATS FOR TERUNTUM
2.55 York A double-figure draw has won seven times in the decade, but the ground is on the firm side and this first sprint of the year will tell us how the land lies, literally.
Youngsters with hot speed from the bottom half of the handicap (eight winners were 4 or 5) do better than the old grinders but are outnumbered today.
Best of them, out of stall 3, may be Private Matter (11.5 BETDAQ) this morning), who was badly handicapped last year in his second season after winning a Listed as a two-year-old.
He is 30lb better off with Golden Apollo on their York form of last June.
The fast pace should suit Classic Seniority (stall 12), who has won on the course over 7f, and looked ready to fire when making his reappearance at Ripon.
But he is well held by the high-drawn Tim Easterby pair, Flying Pursuit and none other than Golden Apollo, at Ripon in the autumn.
And the money has been for another for the same stable, Orion’s Bow, though he hasn’t won a race since the summer of 2016.
So my best of the older horses has to be Teruntum Star (11.0 offers), from a star stable of sprinters, who was an impressive winner of the Coral Sprint here at York last year.
9.0 CHANCE CAN LEAD ANGEL A DANCE
3.30 York (Duke Of York Stakes) You have to decide: take a short price about a champion sprinter (1.55 BETDAQ Harry Angel), who hasn’t had a run back, or much bigger offers Brando (5.0) and Sir Dancealot (9.0) who have.
The July Cup and Haydock Sprint winner beat older horses on firm and heavy respectively. Such a precocious three-year-old doesn’t always train on to four.
And the penalty Harry Angel carries has been carried to victory in this recently only by tough old nuts, Maarek and Society Rock, aged six and seven.
Strictly opn the book – pounds for lengths – Brando was the equal of Harry Angel in the July Cup, gets 5lb today, and has the benefit of his recent run when he won the Abernant .
In that race, after a wind op, he held Sir Dancealot, who
didn’t help his chances by dwelling at the start, not a good idea at York on fast ground.
But Sir Dancealot hadn’t come in his coat for the Abernant and, two years younger, could overturn the form with Brando, making him at 9.0 a win and place flutter against the Angel, who was beaten first run back last season.
GOSDEN IN OAKS-TEST GARDEN PARTY
4.05 York (Musidora Stakes) John Gosden, who has form figures in this of 113-111, saddles Highgarden, only third in a class-4 novice at Sandown, and with the second filly home, Give And Take, taking her on again.
But Highgarden is a Nathaniel, a late developer who won the King George and became sire of Gosden’s great ace, Enable.
William Haggas was ringing alarm bells about today’s firm ground for Give And Take, a sister to Irish Derby and Gold Cup winner, Fame And Glory.
Ralph Beckett’s fillies haven not been showing up as well as in recent seasons, and Ceilidh’s Dream beat one lower down the Haggas rankings on the last day.
DAQMAN BETS
2.20 York (win 20)
BET 8pts win HAMADA
2.55 York (win 30)
BET 3pts win and place PRIVATE MATTER
BET 3pts win and place TERUNTUM STAR
3.30 York (win 20 the win and 10 the place)
BET 2.5pts win and 5.5pts place SIR DANCEALOT
4.05 York (win 20)
BET 7pts win (nap) HIGHGARDEN
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