Archive for July, 2010
Third US win for Proviso
Jul 31st
Having won the main race at Goodwood, the true scale of Prince Khalid Abdullah’s world-wide success was underlined when Proviso won the Grade One Diana Stakes at Saratoga. The green silks with the pink sash and cap that have become a constant theme of the great races in Europe and America were carried by Midday [...]
Midday wins Nassau Stakes
Jul 31st
The record books will show that Midday has won the Group One Blue Square Nassau Stakes twice but really she has won it three times. Henry Cecil’s filly came to Goodwood as the defending champion and appeared to be cruising to her second victory, but then she seemed to think it was time to make [...]
Evens And Odds wins Stewards’ Cup
Jul 31st
He might look like a bouncer for Mothercare, but David Nicholls has long stood tall as the best trainer of sprint handicappers around. In his career as a jockey highlights were few and far between, and one of the best of his 421 appearances in the winner’s enclosure came when Soba won the Stewards’ Cup [...]
Richard Hughes top jockey at Goodwood
Jul 31st
The Glorious Goodwood meeting was a personal triumph for Richard Hughes who finished with nine winners, which was a record for a jockey at the fixture. A final-day double on Pausanias in the two-year-old maiden and Eucharist in the nursery was his ninth of the week, and all were achieved on horses trained by his [...]
Goodwood preview day five
Jul 30th
Over the years the bluesq.com Stewards’ Cup has had more plots that the grave yard and an Agatha Christie thriller combined. And this year’s finale to the Glorious Goodwood meeting looks just as fiendish a puzzle to solve as ever. However, Roger Charlton, with three wins in the race Harmonic Way 1999, Patavellian 2003, and [...]
Sea Lord wins totesport Mile
Jul 30th
When Mark Johnston talks, people tend to listen. The trainer is rarely short of an opinion, or 12, on various matters but the fact that those opinions make sense means that his views colour those of others. So when the man who has been the leading trainer at the Glorious Goodwood meeting seven times previously, [...]
Joseph Henry wins Stewards’ Sprint
Jul 30th
David Nicholls and his team of sprinters are always feared at Goodwood. The Yorkshire trainer has won the Stewards’ Cup twice in the last 10 years and he is not too shabby elsewhere at the meeting. Nicholls had won the Rolf Group Stewards’ Sprint, the consolation race for those who missed the cut in Stewards’ [...]
Goodwood preview day four
Jul 29th
Those looking to draw conclusions about the totesport Mile, the highlight of the fourth day of the Glorious Goodwood meeting may well be best served by reviewing stalls positions before starting the hours of careful formbook sifting. In the last five years only one winner – Laa Rayb 12 months ago – came from a [...]
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