Grand Prix de Deauville Betting Tips – Ziyad Value to Retain Crown
Deauville Betting Tips · Sunday, 30th Aug 2020 - 15:25
Author:
Jamie Clark
Publish Date:
Friday, 28th Aug 2020
Topic:
Horsebetting Tip
Experiences:
Our experienced editor
Topic:
Horsebetting Tip
Experiences:
Our experienced editor
Jamie Clark was Sports Editor of Coral bookmakers between 2014 and 2017 during their merger with Labrokes and a key period for the British betting industry. Working as a bookie’s runner on the point to point circuit in the Midlands and at Market Rasen Racecourse where his late godfather had a trackside pitch growing up, he has had ties to horse racing all of his life. A regular visitor to Cheltenham during the National Hunt season and York over the summer, he has been involved in Horsebetting.com since its inception. Jamie now brings you his take on major news stories from the racing world and those all-important betting tips.
2019 winner back for repeat bid
Ziyad landed the Group 2 Grand Prix de Deauville over an extended 1m 4f 12 months ago. Now returned to the scene of his greatest triumph, he looks a value bet for back-to-back renewals on Sunday (15:25).
Trained by Carlos Laffon-Parais for the Wertheimer Brothers, this five-year-old Rock Of Gibraltar gelding has won five of his 19 starts. Ziyad has also placed on a further 10 occasions, so is a consistent sort for connections.
Before landing the Grand Prix de Deauville last term, he ran a string of fine races in defeat. They include when chasing home Aspetar in the Chantilly equivalent of this.
He then went down fighting by a short-neck to John Gosden’s mud-loving mare Coronet in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud. Ziyad was sent off a 2/1 chance for this race 12 months ago and settled in second place.
When he came under a ride from Olivier Peslier, who is back aboard here, he soon led and stayed on the final furlong. Ziyad held the re-opposing Soft Light, a horse he now meets off 9lb better terms, by half-a-length.
He should confirm that form with the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe sixth in this running of the Grand Prix de Deauville.
Improved on penultimate run
Although a beaten favourite on a transatlantic trip to Woodbine for the Canadian International, Ziyad has won since. That came on the all-weather in a conditions contest at Chantilly on reappearance in March.
The disruption to the French Flat season and a virus in his stable explain a below par effort over course and distance in the Grand Prix de Chantilly.
That race was also hastily rearranged and moved to Deauville, so a line can bet put through Ziyad’s 7 3/4 lengths fifth to Way To Paris.
He was much closer to the winner in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud last time out when held half-a-length. The proximity to one of France’s leading Arc hopes Sottsass that day reads well in relation to this lower grade affair.
Laffon-Parais has got his yard firing again, and goes into the meeting on a 22 per cent strike rate in the last 14 days. Ziyad should now be spot on to do himself justice, so appeals most to retain his crown.
He is two from three at this venue, has won on soft in the past and Peslier riding is a plus. That is because two of Ziyad’s last three wins have come under him.
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Hughie Morrison sent Telecaster across the Channel in search of regaining the winning thread earlier this season. Although that worked, the 2019 Dante Stakes hero hasn’t been able to follow-up on his Longchamp victory since.
The four-year-old New Approach colt has won three of his eight career starts. He also ran totally Flat on his only try over further than 10 furlongs in the Epsom Derby last year.
Telecaster was on his toes and sweating through the preliminaries. It was far from ideal in the immediate build-up to the premier Classic.
He was soon struggling and eased off when all chance of winning had gone. Telecaster ran a fine race in defeat on reappearance in the Group 3 Brigadier Gerard, however, when held just 1 1/4 lengths by Lord North.
The winner has since scored Group 1 success in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot. That advertises the form nicely, and Lord North was far from disgraced when third behind Ghaiyyath and Magical in the Juddmonte International at York.
Telecaster also scored in that grade next time up, but a starting price of 2/5 tells you he beat nothing special that day. He was entitled to win easing down by four lengths at Longchamp.
When pitched in at this level and a hot renewal of the York Stakes, he could only come fourth. On a form line through the winner Aspetar, Ziyad makes much more appeal.
While Telecaster undoubtedly has talent, he doesn’t show it enough on the track. For that reason, he is readily opposed with the very soft going also an unknown.
Styledargent an each-way alternative for Grand Prix de Deauville
Trainer Jean-Pierre Gauvin has saddled Styledargent to two wins this season and a place over course and distance.
In a renewal of the Grand Prix de Deauville where Soft Light is much worse off with Ziyad, and Red Verdon encounters ground he has never tried giving weight all-round, it makes this four-year-old one to consider each-way.
Styledargent is a gelding by Style Vendome that has won four of his nine career outings. All of those victories have come over 1m 3f plus with some cut in the ground, and that’s a positive here.
After following up on his reappearance win the Grand Prix de Lyon, Styledargent found the drop back in trip against him at Vichy. A sounder surface wasn’t ideal over course and distance in Group 3 company last time out either.
However, Styledargent has favourable conditions in the Grand Prix de Deauville. The fact that he still placed and was only beaten by about 1 1/2 lengths gives connections hope for this.
This demands more, but the return to ground which has ease in it suits. Styledargent may upset one or two bigger names and hit the frame here.
If trained by a better known stable, his Grand Prix de Deauville odds would be shorter. If you are looking for a horse that can go well at a bigger price, then Styledargent appeals.
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