DAQMAN KNEW THE WINNERS AND THE LOSERS: Daqman continued his daily profit with 18 points in the bag yesterday, as revealed by his headlines. He napped 11-4 Mildenberger, and made a good case for opposing both Aidan O’Brien favourites (each one was third, including Van Beethoven).

AURUM MARK OF ESTEEM WON 11-4
ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN Beaten 9-4 favourite
MONEY FOR MILDENBERGER WON 11-4 nap

HE’S ON A ROLL: 72 POINTS UP ON PRICEWISE: The Racing Post’s Pricewise joins in today but, after getting the 10-1 Grand National winner, Tiger Roll, Daqman leads 13-2 and is almost 72 points clear (Daqman +42.75, Pricewise –28.75) to a single unit on each of their selections at SP.


DANIEL A FLYER FOR THE NORTH

1.50 Newmarket Ekhtiyaar has won here on the July Course and over the Rowley Mile but trainer Roger Varian is missing strike badly with recent form of 232224330330.

Roger has had only one success the entire year so far, and Ekhtiyaar is drawn in the ‘coffin box’ one stall.

Shanghai Glory’s yard had a winner yesterday, when the handicaps on the straight course both went to high numbers. He must take this chance before the ground dries out against him. I took 8.0 on BETDAQ early mouse.

Aeolus is a similar case and his odds were halved last night with bookies, and came in from near 15.0 to 11.0 in exchanges, but the low numbers have to redeem themselves on yesterday.

Danielsflyer won on his reappearance here at the Guineas meeting last season and the Yorkshire raider looked far too big at 15.0 on BETDAQ early mouse.


NEBO TO NAIL GUINEAS PLACE

2.25 Newmarket (Free Handicap) Mystiko (1991 Guineas) ended a run of fine horses that won this, none finer than Danehill (the 1989 winner), who became the sire of Dylan Thomas and Rock of Gibraltar.

No coincidence that the long-term benefit of the once-great stallion will be felt today. Two of the leading contenders in the ‘Free’ – Nebo and Finniston Farm – are his grandsons via the very fast pair, Kodiac and Helmet, respectively.

Among second-season sires, only Frankel has had more stakes success than Helmet, and Finniston Farm’s stable had a winner yesterday.

Like Finniston Farm, Folk Tale is from a stable in form and has been given time to grow up (if only politicians could go on a course with a strict regime for growing up preferably in separate boxes).

It’s a hard race to call but Mill Reef third Nebo (6.6 BETDAQ early mouse) has to win to stake his claim for a place in the 2,000 Guineas, and four of the last five winners of this carried 9st to 9st 7lb, so clearly class will out.


FRANKUUS AND FRANKIE SHOW

3.0 Newmarket (Earl Of Sefton Stakes) Aidan O’Brien’s exasperating sequence, missing strike badly, has grown alarmingly to 434330432433.

And Deauville hasn’t had an outing. He’d been to Meydan before he was outsmarted by Ulysses at Sandown last April. We didn’t know then that the winner would go back to the course and land the Eclipse.

The globetrotting Robin Of Navan (target the Prix d’Ispahan) has won only once since 2015, and Forest Ranger just a conditions race at Newcastle (AW).

In fact, a stronger rival for Deauville may be the Winter Derby (Group 3) winner, Master The World, as tough as ever after 51 races, which might also be said of his veteran trainer, David Elsworth, after 78 years.

Master The World achieved Group status late in life and the handicapper hasn’t been harsh but Frankuus’ Haydock group 3 in August has pushed him into the no-man’s-land between handicaps and the top-class Pattern races.

I’m sure that Mark Johnston, whose Mildenberger yesterday took advantage of O’Brien’s Kew Gardens (wrong trip/needed the run), will have spotted that Frankuus has 3lb and three years in hand of Master The World and has booked Frankie Dettori to upset Deauville who, in Aidan’s immortal words, is ‘ready to start.’

It’s an opening for a dash to the line by early 8.2 offer Frankuus though his big ‘if and but’ is that he doesn’t usually win a race until late summer, so I’ll have to save on the favourite. Tricky stuff.


LISTEN! SOUNDS LIKE SOLILOQUY

3.35 Newmarket (Nell Gwyn Stakes) John Gosden has won the last two runnings of this with Nathra and Daban, both going close in the Classics but destined to be the stable benchmarks for greater things from Enable, winner of four Oaks, the King George and the Arc!

Nathra (2016) went on to be second in the Pouliches (French 1,000) and Daban (2017) third in the Newmarket 1,000, while Enable was waiting in the wings

Now Nawassi, related to a 1,000 Guineas winner and a third, tries to land the Gosden hat-trick. But she was on the drift in the market this morning with the trainer pointing out that she’s short on experience.

‘It’s a good starting point for her,’ says John, using the language patented by Aidan O’Brien. All you have to do now John is add the magic word ‘Listen..’ in front of each remark, as all the jockeys do now in due deference to Aidan Language.

Maybe that comes from their realisation that the Press don’t (‘listen’ I mean). Whatever the reality, they write the same dramatic bilge.

On this occasion, yer man O’Brien declares (undramatically of Dramatically): ‘She is still backward in her coat.’

And we’ve already said that Roger Varian (Altyn Orda) is missing strike with form of 232224330330 alongside O’Brien’s 434330432433. Yi!

One of them will surely make the breakthrough soon; maybe today. But you simply can’t bet on it.

That leaves us with Johnston (Threading) and Appleby (Soliloquy) again. Repeat Soliloquy 100 times on your own, and you have made quite a speech!

In the end, I returned to Nawassi, on three grounds: she won her maiden on the Rowley Mile course; she likes the ease in the surface; Gosden’s winner last year went out to the same 12-1. I like Soliloquy at 7.0 as my second bet. Dubawis do well from two to three.

DAQMAN’S BETS

1.50 Newmarket (win 20)
BET 2.75pts win SHANGHAI GLORY
BET 1.35pts win and place DANIELSFLYER

2.25 Newmarket (win 30)
BET 5.25pts win (nap) NEBO

3.00 Newmarket (win 30)
BET 4pts win FRANKUUS
BET 2.5pts win (stakes saver) DEAUVILLE

3.35 Newmarket (win 30)
BET 5pts win SOLILOQUY
BET 2.75pts win NAWASSI

5.35 Newmarket (win 20)
BET 5pts win OLD PERSIAN

DAQ MULTIPLES
BET 2 x 2pts win doubles Nebo (2.25) with Frankuus and Deauville (3.00)


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