BETDAQ RACING AT DONCASTER: Daqman has bets at four meetings today. He asks where’s the jockeys’ title race going this season, finds a nap at Hamilton, and spots two value bets among the BETDAQ-sponsored races at Doncaster tonight.
14 MEETINGS IN TWO DAYS: The usual crowding of weekend fixtures sees six cards in England tomorrow and eight on Saturday. Look out for another triple-whammy bid and another Daqman attack on Pricewise.
DOYLE COULD BE HUMAN DYNAMO FOR TITLE
Who’s the reluctant champion? Ryan Moore is out, injured; 6-4 on favourite Silvestre De Sousa declares his price for the jockeys’ title ‘ridiculous’; and Richard Hughes says he’ll be far too busy preparing for his training career.
Step forward James Doyle, who has just now started motoring: rides at two meetings today – Leicester and the BETDAQ card at Doncaster tonight – could cut his deficit.
But Silvestre De Sousa also does the double stint of Leicester and the BETDAQ card, with nine rides to Doyle’s five.
Doyle’s trip to Doncaster for just one mount after the four at the Oadby track is eyecatching. It’s called Human Nature (8.10).
2.20 Leicester William Buick, who says he won’t be involved in any title chase, could start the day with a winner in Roaring Forties, fourth in a very hot race at Haydock before a narrow defeat at Ripon.
In the Haydock race, he was apprentice ridden when behind Coventry Stakes and July Stakes placed colts with the winners of four races in the rear.
3.00 Chepstow The only race of any quality over the bridge this afternoon, and seemingly wide open, with five horses separated by only 1.6 points in the BETDAQ orange, as I write.
But there might be an edge in the draw, with Angels Wings among those favoured by a high-numbered stall.
The Dark Angel filly, who appeared in class 2 at the Doncaster St Leger meeting last autumn, ran much better than her finishing position suggests, forced wide despite a small field for a slow-run tactical race at Goodwood last month: 7.0 on BETDAQ early mouse looked tasty.
3.45 Hamilton Mark Johnston’s record with three year-olds in this is 11401 and Polarisation, a class-3 winner at Haydock, drops two grades after unsuccessfully tackling class 2 at Ascot on Saturday, not given a hard race when his chance had gone.
4.30 Leicester James Doyle rides Air Of Astana, well connected on the dam’s side and a son of the flying Equiano, though galling that he’s had to be gelded before his debut.
But if that was a painful snip for the owners, imagine retaining Buonarotti Boy for 500,000gns, then he, too, has to lose his breeding credentials to the knife.
In fact, the only entire in the race is Storm Check, who ran better than the placings suggest on the last day yet is 9.6 on BETDAQ this morning, as I write. Burmese is the obvious threat, stepped up in trip after a good run at Windsor.
NAKEETA ‘WRONG’ AT 5.0 IN BETDAQ RACE
6.00 Doncaster (Betdaq.com Serious About Horses Apprentice Handicap) Despite there being fields of six and seven runners in the last four years – 12 in the two other years – the race has always gone to outsiders, or comparatively so, with winners at 9-2, 15-2, 11-1 and 12-1.
Patrick O’Donnell (Pearl Noir) is leading apprentice of the six to ride here, with 11 winners this season but Megan Carberry, who rode 20 winners in 2014 is hoping to get off the mark for the year with the appropriately named Irish Girls Spirit, with Iggy the obvious danger.
7.35 Doncaster (Betdaq.com £20 Free Bet Classified Stakes) Silvestre De Sousa looks a likely lad here, with King Torus having beaten Apostle two lengths and a head in the race last season.
But, on trainer form, it’s a hard race, with Les Eyre (Compton Park) currently 2-4 and Chris Wall (Souville) 3-8, Michael Bell (George Cinq) not doing so bad either, thankyou very much.
If you back King Torus for a course hat-trick, you have to assume that the first-time visor which helped him to success on the last day will work again.
8.10 Doncaster (Download The Betdaq+ App Novice Stakes (Plus 10 Race) Punters have got this one right in the last five seasons, with four favourites winning and nothing bigger than 7-2 at SP.
A couple of decent sorts have won it: the Nell Gwyn winner Osaila last season; Grand Criterium winner Wootton Bassett in 2010.
And the Kodiac colt Human Nature (James Doyle) was impressive at Windsor, the runner-up franking the form by scoring at Epsom since.
The filly Tutu Nguru aimed high at the Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot after beating a subsequent winner on debut in May.
Is Human Nature the Wootton Bassett of the race this season or ‘Tutu’ the Osaila? Ill go with the colt.
8.40 Doncaster (Betdaq 50% Comm Back First 3Months Handicap) You find this one hard to solve, with winners at 9-1, 12-1, 14-1 and 16-1 at SP in the last five seasons.
They say never back a maiden winner (Cornish Path, Nonchalant, Salmon Sushui) until they’ve proved themselves a second time.
Nonchallant, who hasn’t scored since Cork in April 2014, almost got back in the winners’ enclosure at the 13th attempt since that day.
But a few days earlier Nonchalant was well behind Nakeeta over today’s trip at Ayr, so why is dual winner Nakeeta 5.0 on BETDAQ to Nonchalant’s 2.52, as I write?
9.10 Doncaster (Betdaq 0% Racing On Saturdays Handicap) Roger Charlton has a good record (22%) with first-time handicappers.
And the filly Devonshire Place caught the eye staying on over shorter at Kempton in the Spring.
Her absence since is a worry, and so is the small field, but her jockey, James Doyle, is a bonus. That’s where I came in.
DAQMAN’S BETS (1 to 9 for strength; 10pts would be a banker)
BET 7pts win ROARING FORTIES (2.20 Leicester)
BET 4pts win ANGELS WINGS (3.00 Chepstow)
BET 8pts win (nap) POLARISATION (3.45 Hamilton)
BET 5pts win BURMESE and 2pts STORM CHECK (4.30 Leicester)
BET 7pts win HUMAN NATURE (8.10 Doncaster)
BET 4pts win NAKEETA (8.40 Doncaster)
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