14-1 WINNER AND HAT-TRICK OF 5-4 NAPS FOR DAQMAN: Dynamic Daqman scored with his nap for the third day running yesterday, all three starting at 5-4 against. They were Waila (Saturday), Dank (Sunday) and Djinni (Monday). And he continued his fabulous run of two wins a day with a 14-1 shot.
700.0 IN RUNNING! NOW IT’S 20 WINNERS IN 10 DAYS: Quest For More (WON 14-1) came from the clouds, so far behind at Windsor last night that he was exchanged to a pound at 700.0. He gave Daqman his 20th winner in 10 days.
EIGHT OUT OF 10 HIGH-STAKES WINS: At the same time, Daqman maintained his winning sequence of eight out of 10 high-stakes bets, with Djinni a 10-pointer. The latest list in just six days reads:
WON 10-11 (July 17): 10pts ALONG AGAIN
WON 1-2 (July 18): 20pts TELESCOPE (banker)
WON 11-4 (July 18): 10pts GHASABAH
Unplaced (July 19): 20pts THUNDER STRIKE (banker)
WON 3-10 (July 19): 20pts MAPUTO (banker)
WON 5-4 (July 20): 15pts WAILA (nap)
Unplaced (July 20): 10pts RIPOSTE
WON 5-4 (July 21): 12pts DANK (nap)
WON 6-4 (July 21): 13pts STRONGLY SUGGESTED
WON 5-4 (July 22): 10pts DJINNI (nap)
KING GEORGE ABC: The critics are knocking this year’s three-year-olds, and Daqman finds that horses aged four dominate in Saturday’s King George. Here are the stats in detail, tagged to each contender:
A: Four-year-olds have won 10 out of 13 this century
B: 10 out of 13 had won Group/Grade 1
C: England and Ireland have won 10 out of 13
D: 121 to 128 covers all winners bar one with an official rating.
AB Novellist Trying for back-to-back German wins, following in the hoofprints of Danedream, 2012 King George winner after taking the Arc the previous October.
Novellist seemed set for a back seat behind another burgeoning German horse, Pastorius, until victory in the Grand Prix de Saint-cloud over Dunaden put him on level-peggings, Pastorius having already beaten Dunaden a similar distance in the Prix Ganay.
Since Dunaden was behind Red Cadeaux in Hongkong and behind St Nicholas Abbey in the Coronation Cup at Epsom, there is seemingly a wall of quality horses with little between them, though Novellist, as the youngster, has to be marked ’the improver.’
AC Chamonix A Listed winner in his own right, the Galileo colt didn’t handle the track in the Coronation Cup at Epsom but the result was the same in the end with stablemate St Nicholas Abbey powering clear of Dunaden.
AC Ektihaam Slipped on the bend when favourite for the Hardwicke at Ascot won by Thomas Chippendale, whom he’d beaten over CD in a Listed in May.
Both horses had earlier chased home Al Kazeem in the Gordon Richards Stakes, and Al Kazeem is unbeaten since that day.
AC Ernest Hemingway Lightly raced, highly regarded and a superb mover who only really came into his own when raced on a firm surface last month, winning the Curragh Cup by slamming the previous year’s winner five lengths.
AC Universal Another four-year-old late developer – has thickened substantially this year – up a stone since April, winning four out of five, including two Group 2s.
Only third to Thomas Chippendale in the Hardwicke Stakes but this strong stayer and galloper was not allowed to bowl along in front that day.
A Very Nice Name A hat-trick of Listed wins in Qatar was virtually ignored when he lined up a 66-1 shot for the Sheema Classic in Dubai.
But Very Nice Name ran a very nice race, third to St Nicholas Abbey (Dunaden fourth) in a fast time after a generous pace, and is yet another four-year-old improver due to line up at Ascot on Saturday.
BCD Red Cadeaux Runner-up to Dunaden in the 2011 Melbourne Cup, Red Cadeaux has kept his form well despite advancing years but has more than four lengths to make up on St Nicholas Abbey (Coronation Cup 2012) and was a long way adrift of Al Kazeem at Royal Ascot.
BCD St Nicholas Abbey Has raced off 123 or 124 for two years now, holding his own at the very top since winning the Breeders Cup of 2011.
He allowed Cirrus Des Aigles first run on him when they were one-two in the Sheema Classic (2012) but then beat Red Cadeaux with ease in the Coronation Cup before his King George third to Danedream.
He made no mistake in the Sheema Classic this time around – Very Nice Name third – and slammed Dunaden more than three lengths in a third consecutive Coronation Cup victory. But ‘St Nick’ has never won at Ascot.
BC Trading Leather As English and Irish three-year-olds, including Classic winners, have proved soft this season, Trading Leather is a lone emergent name.
When the Irish Guineas third stepped up in trip to win a Listed at The Curragh, it was only to be expected, so he started 6-1 for the Irish Derby behind Ruler Of The World and Libertarian, the Epsom Derby 1-2.
But this fine stayer, trained to perfection by Jim Bolger, got the pace he needed (the time of the race was fast by almost five seconds!), and galloped away from his field, 10 lengths clear of the Epsom form.
B Cirrus Des Aigles Champion Stakes winner (2011) at Ascot and one of very few horses to put up a fight when Frankel took that crown from him a year later.
In between times, he beat St Nicholas Abbey in the 2012 Sheema Classic and hammered Giofra eight lengths before that one was four lengths off Pastorius in the Prix Ganay.
The seven-year-old did not reappear until fifth in the Grand Prix De Saint-cloud in June after a ligament injury but still warned he’d be a future threat to Novellist and Dunaden, the winner and second.
C Hillstar Had the season started a couple of months later, Sir Michael Stoute would probably have won a Classic with either Hillstar or Telescope.
As it is, the one with five races on his CV, the other with just three – and injured before the Derby – relaunched their careers, with Telescope scoring 24 lengths at Leicester and Hillstar surprise winner of the ‘ Ascot Derby’, the King Edward Vll Stakes, from Derby fourth, Battle Of Marengo.
The rise and rise of these two colts is virtually vertical on the ratings scale, Hillstar up two stone in as many months and rightly supplemented for Saturday at a cost of £75,000.
DAQMAN’S BETS (to win 20 points each)
BET 6.6pts win DAMAAH (2.30 Musselburgh)
BANKER 20pts win (nap) CUT THE CARDS (4.45 Southwell)
BET 4pts win on each BURNWYND BOY and (stakes saver) IDYLLIC STAR (5.00 Musselburgh)
BET 12pts win BENNACHIE (5.15 Southwell)
DAQ MULTIPLES: 3pts win double BROWN EYED HONEY (2.30 Musselburgh) and CUT THE CARDS (4.45 Southwell)
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