120 POINTS PROFIT IN FIVE DAYS FROM ELEVEN DAQMAN WINNERS: Though he spread his bets among six meetings yesterday, Daqman, who missed seven winning bets on Wednesday by a nose, made it ELEVEN winners in five days for an overall profit of more than 120 points, including a treble and a supernap on Iffraaz (WON 7-4). Here’s his red-hot sequence:
Sunday (profit 36.50)
WON 9-4 HEADMAN (Fortune Cookie)
WON 4-6 MEHDAAYIH (supernap)
Monday (break even)
WON 3-1 CALE LANE
Tuesday (profit 07.40)
WON 5-1 DRAGON COMMAND
Wednesday (profit 30.12)
WON 11-4 HARRY LOVE
WON 5-6 LEVER DU SOLEIL
Thursday (profit 46.39)
WON 7-4 IFFRAAZ (supernap)
WON 1-1 DAL HORRISGLE (treble)
WON 4-5 POLYDREAM
WON 4-9 CAYENNE PEPPER (treble)
WON 1-5 LOGICIAN (treble)
‘CRACKING BETDAQ BET ON FRANKIE’: READ ALL ABOUT IT! The Eclipse meeting at Sandown Park opens today. At this stage, ante-post punters should check out the Eclipse ABC Guide, published on Wednesday. Today the headline bets are:
🔹MARK THIS FORM HINT FOR MAKYON
🔹CRACKING BETDAQ BET ON FRANKIE
🔹IN A POSITION TO USE HIS STAMINA
🔹ELECTOR THE FORTUNE COOKIE VOTE
🔹EVERYTHING’S IN MADAM’S FAVOUR
MARK THIS FORM HINT FOR MAKYON
2.20 Sandown Following Royal Ascot losers is the name of the game with two-year-old races, but we have a bundle of them in one race here.
Makyon, in the lead 100 yards out in the Coventry, drops back a furlong. We can trust the trainer, Mark Johnston, to have Makyon (BETDAQ 4.1) ready to run a scorcher in front but that’s not normally Ryan Moore’s style and the colt is drawn seven.
Four others who face Makyon here were involved at Ascot later in the week but, by then, the ground was soft.
Liberty Beach (drawn on the wrong side) and Al Raya (from the group that included the first three) were fourth and fifth in the Queen Mary.
Expressionist missed the break in the Norfolk Stakes but Rayong was hampered a furlong out in the Windsor Castle.
Eight of the last nine winners of this race came out of stalls 1, 2, 4 and 5, with the only exception that proved the rule scoring from gate 8 on a day in the mud.
But decisions made by Mark Johnston recommend Makyon. After his Rose Of Kildare was beaten by Liberty Beach at Beverley, he aimed ‘Rose’ at the Listed-level Chesham, in which she was well beaten.
But Makyon was given the Group 2 Coventry as his target. The six-lengths runner-up to him at Hamilton had won his previous race and went on to score by four lengths at Carlisle afterwards.
CRACKING BETDAQ BET ON FRANKIE
3.05 Doncaster I’m relying for the nap on Frankie Dettori, whose mount Lady Lawyer (3.05 Doncaster) ‘legally’, or rather on the form book, has no right to beat Bint Soghaan a second time at the revised weights.
But that one-two was back in October and Bint, which means daughter (of Dark Angel), swished her tail and insisted on being second again, when returning to the track recently.
The others with form are modest and there was no move for the newcomers this morning. I rest my case for Lady Lawyer at a cracking 3.3 on BETDAQ.
IN A POSITION TO USE HIS STAMINA
3.25 Sandown Mustashry, winner of this Listed a year ago, lines up for tomorrow’s Eclipse. He was only the second in nine seasons to score from a stall higher than 5.
Elarqam had been painful to follow since his Guineas fourth last Spring – three times in a row losing favourite – until he scored at this level, this trip and this ground, at Goodwood in May (Extra Elusive fifth).
Also at the Goodwood May meeting, Fifth Position was third in the Derby-trial Cocked Hat Stakes, in which Private Secretary completed a hat-trick for John Gosden.
Gosden now relies on the entire, Royal Line, who hasn’t been seen since winning the November Handicap. He usually likes plenty of cut in the ground over a longer trip, and Frankie Dettori goes to Doncaster.
Oasis Charm, who landed a hat-trick in the Spring, couldn’t handle Group company or soft ground on his last two starts, and could bounce back today, though a long way behind Elarquam at Ascot.
Another snag is that Charlie Appleby also runs another Godolphin – First Nation – off the same 106 rating. You have to back both.
I ended up with a small bet on the three-year-old, Fifth Position, a big price between BETDAQ offers around 10.0 and 8.0 (I’ll charge to the account at 9.0).
I think Andrea Atzeni might make them run at him up the hill. This unexposed sort has bags of stamina on the dam’s side of his pedigree.
ELECTOR THE FORTUNE COOKIE VOTE
4.00 Sandown I marked your card for this one at the beginning of the week, with my new feature ‘Heads Up!’
My heads up was for Elector, who is a similar age and has a similar weight for the same trainer as last year’s winner, Sir Michael Stoute.
There wasn’t much between Elector and runner-up Jazeel at these weights at Newmarket in May, and Elector was behind him at Epsom at the end of that month, when Mountain Angel won.
4.35 Sandown Six of the last seven winners came from stalls, 2, 3 and 5, with four-year-olds winning four, and second-season animals taking three.
In fact, an older horse hasn’t won for nine seasons, and they are modestly represented here by Emenem (16 defeats in a row), who is well handicapped but his step up in trip looks like desperation not planning, and Imphal (12lb higher than his last turf success).
Ship Of The Fen is in form but appears to have a daunting task off 10st 3lb. I find Mick Channon difficult to understand in his race planning. But Andrea Atzeni was keen to keep the ride after he won well on Beer With The Boys.
He has had to wait since October and the son of Nathaniel is no longer one of the boys. Could improve for the trip and being gelded (BETDAQ 9.0 taken).
EVERYTHING’S IN MADAM’S FAVOUR
7.15 Beverley Make On Madam (5.0) has dropped to a winning mark from a good draw over suitable CD and ground, and there are not so many holes in her credentials as in those of her opponents.
Rosy Ryan has dropped down the handicap but is nine years old now. Roaring Forties is also well in but he likes it soft. So does Dawn Breaking, while Muraadef and Dreamseller are still a maidens.
Eight of the last nine winners came out of stalls 1, 2, 4 and 5, with the only exception that proved the rule scoring from gate 8 on a day in the mud.
DAQMAN’S BETS
2.20 Sandown (win 20)
BET 6.5pts win MAKYON
3.05 Doncaster (win 20)
BET 8.5pts win (nap) LADY LAWYER
3.25 Sandown (win 20)
BET 2.5pts win FIFTH POSITION
4.35 Sandown (win 20)
BET 2.5pts win BEER WITH THE BOYS
7.15 Beverley (win 10)
BET 2.5pts win MAKE ON MADAM
FORTUNE COOKIE
(20pts level stakes)
ELECTOR 4.00 Sandown
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