IT’S FOUR BANKERS UP IN A ROW: Daqman made it four consecutive banker naps (12 out of the last 17) with an easy odds-against winner, Kayla (WON 11-10), at Southwell yesterday. The four:

WON 1-2 Shalaa
WON 10-11 Donna Graciosa
WON 5-6 Dark Emerald
WON 11-10 Kayla

ARC-DAY COUNTDOWN: Daqman goes through the card for Longchamp on Sunday with stats and facts today, but look out tomorrow for his ABC guide to the 20-runner Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. Today’s nap is for a place at Nottingham.


ARC-DAY RACE BY RACE: COOKIE HOT FOR GOLD

1.00 Prix Marcel Boussac Won last year by Found, who will line up for the Arc on Sunday. Aidan O’Brien also won it in 2005 and 2010, his success rate matched by John Gosden (1996, 2001, 2011).

1.35 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere After Found in the Marcel Boussac, Aidan O’Brien completed a first-past-the-post double in the two-year-old ’classics’ on this day last year with Gleneagles.

Gleneagles lost the race in the Stewards’ room but he and third home Territories confirmed the form as the subsequent one-two in the Newmarket 2,000 Guineas.

Further proof if needed that course form is a worthwhile tool for punters, in that Olympic Glory, winner of this in 2012, took the Prix De La Foret on the same card two years later.

2.10 Prix de l’Opera England and Ireland combined for three wins out of five in this at the turn of the century but only Roger Varian (2011) has managed to break the French hold (seven out of eight) on this race since.

Ignore older horses (they’re 1-40), with the score since 1974: three-year-olds 30, four-year-olds 10. One of my biggest punts was Sir Michael Stoute’s Bella Colora: he’s won the race four times.

2.55 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe I shall present my ABC Guide to the race in this column tomorrow, hoping to add the successful ABC headlines of the last few weeks with Kodi Bear (WON 4-5), Bondi Beach (WON, first past post, 2-1) and Master The World (2nd 25-1 from 38.0 on BETDAQ).

3.40 Prix de l’Abbaye I previewed this race separately yesterday and nominated as a Hot Spot the Kings Stand Stakes winner, Goldream.

4.50 Prix de la Foret This is always a close match between the home team and our invaders, with the recent score: England 8, France 7, Ireland 1.

The modern race is memorable for the Freddy Head pair Goldikova (2010) and Moonlight Cloud (2013) but this is also the preserve of Treve’s trainer, Criquette Head-Maarek, who has scored four times in all, starting with the magical Ma Biche.

HOT SPOT: Commonwealth Cup runner-up Limato has since won the Park Stakes at the St Leger meeting. The recent form of home hope Esoterique is a narrower defeat by Muhaarar, and a length second to Solow on good ground.

But the bigger difference between the pair is that Esoterique’s success stories are over a mile, including beating Newmarket Guineas runner-up Territories on very soft Deauville ground on the last day.

So, although Esoterique has won on a sound surface (9f firm), he will probably have to set his own pace to beat Limato in the Foret over 7f.

The forecast good ground will suit Limato, but ever-careful Henry Candy wants to see for himself how much it dries out (forecast: sunshine) from the current good to soft.

He told the Racing Post: ‘I don’t really trust the ground. French good to soft is softer than Limato would want it.’

5.20 Prix du Cadran Recent winning raiders from this side of the Channel had finished fifth and seventh in the Ascot Gold Cup, and fifth in the Yorkshire Cup.

Such is the level of this French Gold Cup, a shadow of its glory decade (1969-79), which featured all-time greats Levmoss, Sagaro and Buckskin.

HOT SPOT: Sunday’s renewal gives Clever Cookie his big chance. Only a handicapper until he stepped into the Pattern arena for the Ormonde Stakes at Chester in the Spring and delivered a knock-out punch to Tac de Boistron.

The significance of that is Tac’s defeat in the Prix Royal Oak late last year of the Cadran winner, High Jinx, albeit on very soft ground.

Cookie’s King George fifth also stands out in Sunday’s line-up, which is headed by the German four-year-old Alex My Boy, formerly with Mark Johnston.


BOY! LOOK OUT FOR GRASSROOTS DAISY-CUTTER

2.10 and 2.40 Nottingham This column pointed up the two-year-old opener at Fairyhouse yesterday, naming Clear Cut, Golden Pearl and Midst as horses with top potential.

Now make sure you watch these fillies (2.10): Rocksavage, a John Gosden related to his King George winner Nathanial; Scarlet Pimpernel, who has the benefit of an outing; and Statuesque, Sir Michael Stoute’s Sea The Stars filly from the Cheveley Park Stud.

As well as Statuesque, Stoute runs Triathlon (2.40), another well-bred filly, with the BETDAQ market, early mouse, suggesting she is rated a shade of odds on, 13.0 bar two, with only Cacica likely to be a problem.

3.45 Nottingham (Grassroots Middle-Distance Series Final) It’s a nice sunny day but with a bit of a breeze at Nottingham so hold on to your hat for a hair-raising ride round Colwick Park with your wallet on Daisy Boy, three days after a prep run at Epsom.

A 9.0 offer on BETDAQ as I write, Daisy Boy, who made all over CD here last September, has tried a trip too far and soft-heavy ground since he freewheeled round Sandown and scored from the front on a sound surface in July.

4.50 Nottingham (Grassroots Sprint Series Final) High numbers down the stands’ rail seemed to have this in the bag until Mon Brav (stall 1) came through last year under strong handling by Silvestre de Sousa.

The champion jockey elect has six rides at Salisbury today, so it’s down to Fergal Lynch to make ‘Mon’ do the brave thing, off just a pound higher mark, installed in gate 2, so set up to do the same trick again, offered 9.6 on BETDAQ, as I write.

Bets of the high draw could be Jan Van Hoof (stall 16), thought worth taking over to The Curragh for a big handicap earlier in the month and just nosed out of a consolation at Pontefract on the last day.


CHEPSTOW BLISS FOR BELLAMY.. OR PEAR-SHAPED

3.35 and 5.10 Chepstow According to the Racing Post’s admirable Trainerspot, the top two trainers getting most out of their horses are Stuart Edmunds (100%) and Kim Bailey. Both have booked claimer Tom Bellamy at Chepstow today.

There was a morning gamble on Kim’s Derrintogher Bliss (3.35), vying for favouritism, in to 5.1, and Petethepear (5.10) was a warm order for Stuart and Tom at the end of the day. I shall bet that one of them wins.

4.00 Salisbury The season’s gone round and we’re into Arc week but I still remember the pain of a punt that went wrong early on: Mange All, a Lincoln Handicap gamble (down to 13-2).

Whatever happened that day, he’s had a quiet time since. I want to have my pound on when he bounces back, and this is certainly a race of likely shocks, because three front-runners.

Cheekpieces might do the trick: 16.5, so pure cheek and I won’t be in pieces if he doesn’t win..

8.10 Kempton This is a track to make all, and Outrank looks too big at 24.0 to ‘do a Mark Johnston’ and take this hot nursery from the front.

DAQMAN’S BETS (staked 1 to 9 for confidence)
BET 6pts win DERRINTOGHER BLISS (3.35 Chepstow), if lose 8pts win PETETHEPEAR (5.10 Chepstow)
BET 2pts win and 7pts place (place nap) DAISY BOY (3.45 Nottingham)
BET 1pt win and place MANGE ALL (4.00 Salisbury)
BET 5pts win JAN VAN HOOF, and 2pts win and place MON BRAV (4.50 Nottingham)
BET 1pt win and place OUTRANK (8.10 Kempton)


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