16.0 GUINEAS BET JETS IN AT 9-1: Rain at the Curragh helped Daqman grab a Classic winner yesterday, Jet Setting (WON 9-1 from 16.0 on BETDAQ) in the Irish 1,000 Guineas, but it told against his other Curragh bets, which were both runners-up, including Newsman (win and place, 2nd 6-1 from 12.0 on BETDAQ). Jet Setting puts him 33-10 up on Pricewise in feature races this Flat (turf) season.
21 WINNING TIPS IN EIGHT DAYS: ‘Jet Setting and Newsman were fantastic value on BETDAQ,’ says Daqman, who has now had 21 winning bets in eight days. We’ll allow 21, since he clearly named Atalan (WON 7-2) at Nottingham at the foot of his copy but it was missing in error from the end of his tips list.
DAQMAN’S 21 WINNING TIPS IN EIGHT DAYS
WON 11.5-1 Jemayel
WON 9-1 Jet Setting (16.0 BETDAQ)
WON 17-2 Bathos
WON 5-1 Skiffle
WON 9-2 Oh This Is Us
WON 4-1 Almodovar (nap)
WON 4-1 Turbine (10.0 BETDAQ)
WON 7-2 Atalan
WON 7-2 Garcia
WON 3-1 Anonymous Lady
WON 3-1 Nice Vintage
WON 8-5 Knife Edge (nap)
WON 7-4 Zig Zag Girl (nap), Persuasive (10-11 banker), Sagely (5-2) and six others.
CLASSIC KING KEATLEY IS NAPPED AT AYR
Racing, the great leveller. Richard Hannon has had 99 runners in the last 14 days – 22 wins and 22 placed – and his total of 315 starters for 55 wins this year has put him top of the trainers list, ahead of John Gosden and Aidan O’Brien.
But he must have looked round the myriad of boxes at Everleigh with a different eye this morning, wondering: is there another Jet Setting lurking unloved, potential untapped?
Jet Setting left the Hannons for 12,000gns when no future could be seen for her, after she failed in three maidens and a nursery (two-year-old handicap).
‘The one that got away’ is a story that goes back through racing history, ever since a selling-race winner on the Flat slipped through the hands of the leading trainers to be stabled behind a garage by a taxi-driver they called ‘Ginger.’
Red Rum, triple Grand National winner, wasn’t the last Aintree hero to be ‘given away’ before he won.
Like Jet Setting, Silver Birch went back to Ireland (from Paul Nicholls), and Seagram was sold by its boss in the final year of his company’s sponsorship.. his last chance to win it.
You just don’t expect it of Classic horses. According to my man, one of racing’s well-known anoraks, the last Derby winner to run in a nursery was Tulyar (1952), but at least he won it!
AYR Today, Jet Setting’s trainer, Adrian Keatley, is on his bread-and-butter trail, winning races at Ayr (he’s 6-8), all in recent weeks.
It’s business as usual, with Mo Henry (3.05) and Millefiori (3.40) returning after successes here in the last month.
The snag for Mo Henry – and Vallarta, too – in the first of them is the going change; both have won only on firmish ground.
It depends how quickly the ground dries out, not least for the soft-surface Hamilton winner, Sir Domino, whose yard usually has sprinters in depth, though it has a modest strike-rate on this course.
At the offers, I’ll have my pound on Jinky (17.0 in the BETDAQ orange). Jinky, a winner four times at Ayr, is not ground dependent, and looked to be running into form at last week’s meeting here over a furlong shorter.
He needs today’s 6f, and drops two grades today, better off with Mo Henry from an April meeting.
Millefiori (3.40, nap), a filly by Mastercraftsman, should have a future – if not a jet setting one! – as shown by her comfortable success on the Ayr course on Wednesday. Joe Fanning takes over from a claimer.
LEICESTER Three-year-olds are three out of six in the fillies’ conditions race (4.30), and Thetis was placed behind the very smart Group-1 performer, Nemoralia, at York.
BURN CAN BAG WINDSOR LISTED SPRINT
WINDSOR TONIGHT Team Hannon is five-handed, which is where I came in. Best races of the evening are two sprints, with Hannon’s best chance of the day probably Francisco (7.45), gelded since last year and with the ground in his favour now after a decent start at Newbury.
In the Listed (7.15), Charlie Appleby (Baccarat), George Baker (Humidor), Charlie Hills (Strath Burn) and Hannon (King Of Rooks) are the trainers in form, with Appleby for Godolphin also having the best Windsor strike-rate.
But Baccarat is an unruly sort and is worse off with Naadirr on their one-two in Dubai, and has Watchable up close on his last run at Haydock.
The only Group winners in the race are Dutch Masterpiece (needs rain) and Strath Burn, though The Tin Man was fourth in the Group-1 sprint championship at Ascot in the autumn (Naadirr fifth; Strath Burn finished lame).
Who is fit? That is the question. And James Fanshawe’s answer – The Tin Man has had problems this Spring and is ‘not quite there yet’ – doesn’t square with his position at the front of the BETDAQ market this morning (3.8 favourite).
Charlie Hills (Muhaarar, Magical Memory) must be wearing out his stopwatch at home, and he rates Strath Burn better than ever this year (4.2) in a race usually won by four-year-olds. Next stop, the Kings Stand.
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked 1 to 9 for strength of bet)
BET 1pt win and place JINKY (3.05 Ayr)
BET 8pts win (nap) MILLEFIORI (3.40 Ayr)
BET 8pts win THETIS (4.30 Leicester)
BET 7pts win STRATH BURN (7.15 Windsor)
BET 5pts win FRANCISCO (7.45 Windsor)
DAQ MULTIPLES: 3 x 1pt win doubles and 1pt win treble Millefiori (3.40 Ayr), Thetis (4.30 Leicester) and Strath Burn (7.15 Windsor)
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