SO-HOT 10-1 IN DOUBLE WHAMMYS: Daqman pulled off a sensational double of Double Whammys yesterday with winner and lay in the two big handicaps at Goodwood and Galway, one of them at a huge morning offer of 19.5 on BETDAQ:
GOODWOOD MILE
WON 10-1 So Beloved (from 19.5)
WIN (place lay) Gm Hopkins (unplaced 8-1)
GALWAY GUINNESS HURDLE
WON 4-1 Clondaw Warrior (from 6.0)
WIN (place lay) Apterix (unplaced 10-1)
NOW IT’S 16 LAYS UP OUT OF 17: He made it a hat-trick of lays with Latharnach (3rd 6-4 favourite). They were his first lays of the week, and gave him a total of 16 out of 17 in his current sequence.
RECORD 73 BIG-RACE WINS THIS SEASON: The day gave Daqman a 5-0 victory over Pricewise, which takes him into a 73-11 lead this Flat campaign (214-84 in four seasons), breaking his record of 69 wins (in 2014) for races selected by Pricewise in feature races for a season. Today: 2.00 Goodwood.
BUICK BACK IN DRIVING SEAT FOR ZANETTO YARD
2.00 Goodwood (Stewards Cup Consolation) Low numbers seem to have had an edge in the sprints this week but the Stewards Cup proper has always gone middle-to-high.
The last three winners of this Consolation spread across 5, 13 and 27, and I can’t find any regular front-runners today. No help there, then.
We’ll have to look to the ‘usual suspects’ in this – Clive Cox, Richard Fahey – for an edge, add the sprint stables of Robert Cowell and Andrew Balding, and delete those yards out of form (Michael Easterby, Stuart Williams, George Baker, David Griffiths, Brian Meehan).
All we need now is a class-2-capable contender among the older horses (four-year-olds have won only once in the decade; three-year-olds nil).
Rex Imperator (stall 25) won here 19lb higher two years ago and is back to form for the burgeoning David O’Meara stable; last year’s winner Barnet Fair (in 2) has Richard Hughes booked but repeats in the sprinting game are rare except at Group level.
So Zanetto (from 5) – seldom runs a bad race – is my low number. I took 13.0 Rex Imperator and 19.0 Zanetto, with the Balding stable’s former star apprentice William Buick doing the steering.
2.35 Goodwood Mark Johnston has run 48 horses since Goodwood started and his last winner was 18 starters back, which was only on Thursday! He could win this – he’s done so three times since 2008 – but doesn’t give the punter much chance, does he!
Dartmouth made quite a bit of improvement in July at Ascot to overtake (now withdrawn today) King Bolete, who’d finished in front of him at the royal meeting.
Dartmouth was held up in last place that day and the cards could be dealt for him, with front-runners River Dart and Senrima likely to set a cracking pace, while Dartmouth can get a handy pozzi from stall 2.
Olivier Peslier didn’t covered himself in glory with his two rides here this week but this is a French waiting gaem, so he should be ok.
Barreesh is a worry, unexposed at the trip. But he has to leap two grades as well as two furlongs.
8.0 IN THE ORANGE, SEVILLE IS MADE FOR NASSAU
3.10 Goodwood (Nassau Stakes) Legatissimo hasn’t done much wrong, as a Guineas winner, second in an Oaks and the Pretty Polly, but I can’t get to like her. Or trust her.
The Guineas turned out to be a sprint and the Oaks a fluke for Qualify, after which I opposed Legatissimo with a lay for the Pretty Polly. She contrived to get stuffed, squeezed for room, unlucky again.
The turn card this time, Diamondsandrubies, had a right to win after being hampered behind Qualify and Legatissimo in the Epsom Oaks.
But here she is second fiddle to Legatissimo in the morning BETDAQ market. Surely Legatissimo can’t be 2-1 in this field!
The second, third, fourth and fifth from that Oaks are running, and winner of the last three Nassaus, John Gosden, runs three, Star of Seville, Jazzi Top and Bright Approach.
It also smells of a shock result. I took 8.0 Star Of Seville, hampered out of the Oaks, unbeaten in three rides under Frankie Dettori.
He’s done on her at Newbury, York and Chantilly, what is best suited to today’s track! Stay close up, swoop two out and reach for the sky-high dismount.
18.0 RELATED HAS SPEED AND STAMINA IN THE CUP
3.45 Goodwood (Stewards Cup) Let’s hope the opening Consolation race gives us a draw edge, but don’t hold your breath.
The difference between the two races is that this one has the quality youngsters: 25 times out of 30 since 1984, the race has gone to horses aged four and five.
Before that three-year-olds won five out six so, though Magical Memory seems up against it on modern trends, he’s not without a chance. I leave him out more because of his ‘coffin-box’ draw in stall 1.
In fact, there’s been only one winner in single figures and, in any case, I’m not keen on Kimberella (2), Lancelot Du Lac (5) and Tropics (7), too high in the handicap; Jack Dexter (3), needs rain; Poyle Vinnie (4), winner at lesser tracks only; and Ninjago (6), not won on Flat for more than two years.
Of the high numbers, I like Related, who’s got speed (fourth in the Wokingham) and stamina (won at Goodwood over 7f). A tasty 18.0 in the BETDAQ orange this morning.
The middle draw does well in this, and Ayr Silver Cup winner Huntsman’s Close and dark-horse Toofi have big shouts, but I’m sticking to the high side and taking as my number two, Ruwaiyan (15.0 offers taken), who trotted up over CD in May, and like Related, stays further.
Ruwaiyan was fourth in this race last year but had a wind operation in the close season, and could be a blot on the handicap this time around, despite 9st 5lb. Luke Morris deserves a big handicap.
PYROMANIAC CAN SET THE LADBROKES ALIGHT
3.15 Galway (Ladbrokes Hurdle) We’re unlikely to get a soft-ground upset like last year and, before that, only one horse in eight years had broken the 11st barrier, though I think it might happen today because of the class of the field.
On that 11st mark and below today are the trainers most likely to: Henry De Bromhead, Jessica Harrington and Willie Mullins have been in top gear, Tony Martin finishing the meeting best of all with current figures of 1212011.
Elishpour (Martin), third in the Ascot Stakes to Clondaw Warrior – magnificent yesterday – looks primed for this, but the same stable also has Graded-hurdler Pyromaniac higher up the handicap.
Pyromaniac, a winner at this meeting last year, has won on the Flat at 2m, which would normally put him in range of today’s trip, He’s unexposed beyond 17f.
Like Pyromanicac, Some Article – related to stayers – is unexposed at the trip and has got his ground. He won at both the Punchestown and Fairyhouse Spring festivals and smacks of class in this field.
Wood Breizh ran on behind Modemnon the Flat here earlier in the week but was entered in a Sligo handicap in lieu of this!
His Clonmel win was in such a slow time, the ambulance overtook them and the driver had a cup of tea waiting for them to catch up.
Wood Breizh was behind Cape Glory at Roscommon in June when he didn’t jump well. After my lays treble yesterday, I’m chancing the rivercard here, taking on the Mullins-Walsh team.
I have a lot of good winners on my side against him in this cracking Ladbrokes Hurdle and, for the winner today, I think Elishpour, Pyromanic and Some Article have too much class.
This is my last crack at a Triple Whammy for some time, such being the nature of the racing, and, since the big sprints at Goodwood are not suitable, I’m up for the craic here: I’ll have one lay, two to win and one each way. I want three returns!
DAQMAN’S BETS (staked to win 30 points, except the lays and the bull’s-eye bet)
BET 2.5pts win and place REX IMPERATOR and 1.75pts win and place ZANETTO (2.00 Goodwood)
BET 9pts win (nap) DARTMOUTH (2.35 Goodwood)
LAY 10pts LEGATISSIMO and BET 4.2pts win STAR OF SEVILLE (3.10 Goodwood)
LAY 5pts WOOD BREIZH, and BET 6.3pts win PYROMANIAC, 4.2pts ELISHPOUR, and 2.6pts win and place SOME ARTICLE (3.15 Galway)
BULL’S-EYE (WIN 50) BETS: 3.5pts win RUWAIYAN and 3pts win RELATED (3.45 Goodwood)
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