Neil Morrice brings us all of his best bets and tips for Monday’s racing coming your way from Deauville.
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Deauville Best Bets Monday
Race
5 (Emirates Poule D’Assai Des Poulson’s) (Group 1)
5 (Emirates Poule D’Assai Des Poulson’s) (Group 1)
Andre
Fabre is responsible for a third of the nine-strong field for the French 2,000
Guineas and appears hell-bent on ensuring there is a strong pace for his
champion two-year-old and ante post favourite VICTOR LUDORUM. Alson and Arapaho
join that Shamardal colt and have claims in their own right, the issue being
whether Victor Ludorum, a Group 1 winner at two, has derived sufficient
physical and mental improvement from his underwhelming comeback in a Group 3
trial at Longchamp three weeks ago. Alson debuts for Fabre after landing a
Group 1 in the Bois de Boulogne last October and has to be respected. Arapaho
took out a Listed race at the same track a couple of weeks ago to give hope
that he can win this for his Coolmore connections. Ecrivain ran well in his
trial and has chances of turning the tables on his conqueror, The Summit.
Fabre is responsible for a third of the nine-strong field for the French 2,000
Guineas and appears hell-bent on ensuring there is a strong pace for his
champion two-year-old and ante post favourite VICTOR LUDORUM. Alson and Arapaho
join that Shamardal colt and have claims in their own right, the issue being
whether Victor Ludorum, a Group 1 winner at two, has derived sufficient
physical and mental improvement from his underwhelming comeback in a Group 3
trial at Longchamp three weeks ago. Alson debuts for Fabre after landing a
Group 1 in the Bois de Boulogne last October and has to be respected. Arapaho
took out a Listed race at the same track a couple of weeks ago to give hope
that he can win this for his Coolmore connections. Ecrivain ran well in his
trial and has chances of turning the tables on his conqueror, The Summit.
Prediction:
1st VICTOR LUDORUM 2nd Arapaho 3rd Ecrivain 4th The Summit 5th Alson
1st VICTOR LUDORUM 2nd Arapaho 3rd Ecrivain 4th The Summit 5th Alson
Race
6 (Emirates Poule D’Essai Des Pouliches) (Group 1)
6 (Emirates Poule D’Essai Des Pouliches) (Group 1)
TROPBEAU
has the points on the board courtesy of her half length defeat of Dream And Do
in a Longchamp Group 3, since when she’s had three weeks to prepare for her big
early season objective. The Showcasing filly was a dual Group scorer at the
Festival here last summer, and it’s therefore surely to her advantage to have
seen this 1,000 Guineas moved to her favourite hunting ground. Mickael
Barzalona is the only jockey to have ridden her, and will fancy his chances of
outpointing the unbeaten Simeen. This Aga Khan-owned filly is following an
upward curve but is nevertheless stepping up in class under Christophe
Soumillon. Dream And Do has champion jockey Maxime Guyon doing the navigating
and could get closer to Tropbeau with the benefit of that run. A third Fabre
contender, Tickle Me Green, has three quarters of a length to find with
Tropbeau and looks sure to be involved.
has the points on the board courtesy of her half length defeat of Dream And Do
in a Longchamp Group 3, since when she’s had three weeks to prepare for her big
early season objective. The Showcasing filly was a dual Group scorer at the
Festival here last summer, and it’s therefore surely to her advantage to have
seen this 1,000 Guineas moved to her favourite hunting ground. Mickael
Barzalona is the only jockey to have ridden her, and will fancy his chances of
outpointing the unbeaten Simeen. This Aga Khan-owned filly is following an
upward curve but is nevertheless stepping up in class under Christophe
Soumillon. Dream And Do has champion jockey Maxime Guyon doing the navigating
and could get closer to Tropbeau with the benefit of that run. A third Fabre
contender, Tickle Me Green, has three quarters of a length to find with
Tropbeau and looks sure to be involved.
Prediction:
1st TROPBEAU 2nd Simeen, 3rd Dream And Do, 4th Tickle Me Green
1st TROPBEAU 2nd Simeen, 3rd Dream And Do, 4th Tickle Me Green
Newcastle Best Bets
Race 4: No2 ART POWER
Trainer: Tim Easterby – Jockey: Silvestre de Sousa
The King Power-owned ART POWER has a similar profile to chief rival Magical Journey but on the face of encouraging reports from Malton I expect him to trump that rival. The son of Dark Angel ran well in defeat on his introduction here before bolting up in better company at York. Don’t worry that he’s back competing at a sprint trip………he should take that in his stride and he promises to be good. Definitely, one to follow.
Race 8: No11 ALIGNAK
Trainer: Sir Michael Stoute – Jockey: Oisin Murphy
Sea The Moon colt ALIGNAK progressed in a parsimonious three-year-old campaign to trouble the judge on all three outings, culminating in a success over a mile and a quarter on the Kempton Polytrack. This is a compressed handicap, but he does receive weight from all but one of his 11 rivals and should enjoy the track. He’s done plenty of work and importantly looks to have more potential than anything else in the field.
Race 9: No9 THIBAAN
Trainer: Sir Michael Stoute – Jockey: Jim Crowley
While he will provide a line onto some others from this powerful yard THIBAAN may be good enough to take this out on only his second career start. He didn’t know what to do on debut at Kempton but looks to have learned something, and he’s bred to enjoy the step up to a mile and a quarter.
Race 10: No7 VALYRIAN STREET (Nap)
Trainer: Roger Varian – Jockey: David Egan
Based on what he’s shown in his work at home it will take a good one to stop the blue-blooded VALYRIAN STREET from delivering on his debut. His king’s ransom yearling price of €600,000 gives him plenty to live up to, but the son of Frankel has done everything very easily in his preparation. Furthermore, Varian is a dab hand at getting one ready meaning there should be no excuses.
