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Sunday 12 July
DAQMAN
192 POINTS PROFIT IN 18 DAYS: Daqman won money yet again yesterday - for the 13th time in 18 days, in fact - and relentlessly creeps closer to 200 points profit.
DOUBLE WHAMMY: Soul Heaven (won 4-1) was a surprisingly good price but his best race was the double whammy when he laid Cesare (unplaced 9-4) and backed Aqlaam (won 15-8). Cesare took his lays to 43 successful out of 50.
13 LAYS IN A ROW: But his brutal run against the favourites ended on 13 when Borderlescott shrugged off some scrimmaging on the rails at Chester. So his record still stands at 16.
There’s no beauty in blinkers. They may work for John Oxx’s filly in the Irish Oaks at The Curragh today but, if she wins, I’m happy to watch her win.
Oxx is quite open in the trade Press this morning: Beauty O’Gwaun does so little at home, he really doesn’t know whether she’s Group-1 and, with the blinkers, he’s obviously squeezing the last possible drop of petrol into the tank.
They are no longer regarded as the ‘rogue’s badge’ they used to be: some trainers – Cole and Stoute are in my files for this ability – know how and when to use the blinds judiciously. But I won’t have a Classic winner in them.
Beauty O’Gwaun’s St-Leger-winning brother Millenary wore them but not in the Leger; in fact, contrary to what you may have read, they were not applied until the age of six when they sharpened him up to win the Princess Of Wales’s Stakes at the July meeting of almost exactly six years ago.
Midday is also discarded: unlucky she may have been, but she had her chance to beat Sariska on top of the ground - she’s bred for a sound surface and both her wins have been on good to firm – and I can’t see how she, or Oh Goodness Me (7th), can turn the Epsom form around against a Pivotal filly on soft.
The racing Press is saying that Midday is the more progressive but she’s had seven races to Sariska’s four.
Given the conditions, I’m bound to scan the card for Selkirks and Sadlers Wells, of which there are four: Belle Chose is a handicapper; Chirkova has already failed at Listed and Group-3, and is still a maiden; though the choice of Johnny Murtagh, Roman Empress did nothing for me in the Pretty Polly and was earlier beaten by the last of this quartet, Roses For The Lady, at Leopardstown.
If Roses For The Lady takes after her family, she has her conditions for the first time today: though she’s won a nothing race on top of the ground, she didn’t much like the firmish terrain or the Chester turns in the Cheshire Oaks but we have to make more excuses if we are to gloss over her defeat by Grace O’Malley at Cork.
Grace O’Malley, who also beat Roses For The Lady last backend, acts on any going, and is unbeaten if you take out a first run back when she was slowly away.
In the twin tables that make for untouchables - ‘done nothing wrong’, and ‘lightly raced and on the upgrade’ – Sariska, Grace O’Malley and Beauty O’Gwaun stand apart; at 16.5 on Betdaq this morning, Grace O’Malley stands alone for value. She may be Sariska’s main danger.
The blinds also go on King Ledley in the Anglesey (3.05); he is the form horse on his third in the Classic-pointer Railway Stakes, and he has six lengths in hand on Eireannach and a stone on Diamondgeezer Luke unless they have improved that much since the Spring.
But King Ledley looks there to be shot at by the winning Railway Stakes connections – Ballydoyle, of course – particularly since he looks pretty well exposed, after being on the go since 22nd March, where some of the others have only just joined in.
I can’t have the filly (Walk On Bye) and, though it’s no reason to reject the colt, I haven’t had a nod or a wink for so-named En Un Clin D’Oeil.
I’m left with Aidan. He’s not been the ideal companion for this race since 2005 but Beethoven’s sire, the Eclipse winner Oratorio, won this the year before that and, with Sadlers Wells on the dam’s side, Beethoven should relish this far more than a pressured ride on the fast ground at Royal Ascot.
It’s a mundane Sunday in England (no Flat, just a mediocre AW card), rescued only by the Stratford Summer Cup (3.30) and Silver Salver (4.05).
First-time blinkers (on Nudge And Nurdle, 3.30) haven’t helped recent ‘Twiston’ runners (0 from 14), and this stayer could do with going round twice. Gaelic Flight has to face some young improvers and the handicapper has lumped the weight on the Ruby-Walsh-ridden raider, Jubilant Note.
Lord Ryeford (26lb higher than last win), Mango Catcher (up 11lb) and Tom’s Toybox (9lb) are also penalised but Dishdasha has shed a pound on May running here, despite romping home by 12 lengths at Perth last time.
He’s only seven and has seldom run a bad race (six out of seven placed last term). Mibleu is dangerous if the rain stays away but the other one I like is Master Nimbus; his form shows as 343-1 but, in fact, he’s on a four-timer after one chase win and two on the Flat.
Note that Tony McCoy takes in one ride, Barizan (2.00), then heads for Southwell for Captain Crackers (4.30) and Englishtown (5.00).
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BET 6pts win BEETHOVEN (3.05 The Curragh)
BET 1pt win on each DISHDASHA and MASTER NIMBUS (3.30 Stratford).
BET 6pts win SARISKA, and 1pt win and place GRACE O’MALLEY (3.40 The Curragh)
We are now recording the daily profit and loss of DAQMAN to help readers gauge the current form of the service. We will provide the profit / loss on the previous day to a £1 level stake on each selection (eg: a 5 point bet = a £5 stake). In the interests of consistency the profit / loss will be recorded at SP prices, however BETDAQ users can reasonably expect to beat SP in the majority of races.
Saturday's Return was: PROFIT 16.75 points
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