Posts tagged Goodwood
Canford Cliffs ready for Queen Elizabeth II Stakes
Sep 22nd
The markets may argue but Richard Hannon believes that he has Canford Cliffs at his best before he runs in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot on Saturday. Canford Cliffs was put through his final workout before he attempts to win a fourth Group One race of the season and the trainer was happy [...]
Kieren Fallon reaches century
Sep 7th
The original prize may be so far out of sight that it barely registers on the horizon but Kieren Fallon has been learning many things this year. Things like how to ride tracks that he had rarely seen since he first quit British racing to ride for Aidan O’Brien and then was denied the right [...]
First loss for Overdose
Aug 29th
Overdose lost his unbeaten record in a strange race in Germany. The pride of Hungary, who his fans call the “Budapest Bullet”, had been undefeated in his previous 14 career starts, but was firing blanks in the Group Two Goldene Peitsche at Baden-Baden. Trainer Josef Roszival booked Christophe Soumillon, who had ridden the horse once [...]
Poet’s Voice wins Celebration Mile
Aug 28th
There are plenty of ways to win a race – and almost as many in which to lose one. A year ago Frankie Dettori and Saeed bin Surror came away from Goodwood after Delegator had won the Group Two totesport.com Celebration Mile with a feeling of mission accomplished which lasted all the way until his [...]
Celebration Mile preview
Aug 27th
Sir Michael Stoute has a good record at Goodwood, with a 21% strike-rate, but his track record in the Group Two totesport.com Celebration Mile is exceptional. He has trained six winners of the race in the last 10 years and Main Aim can make it seven this time. The field of four is a disappointing [...]
Date With Destiny could run at Goodwood on Saturday
Aug 23rd
Crisis, what crisis? It was business as usual at the Richard Hannon yard despite a week when the trainer’s juggernaut of a season appeared to be dropping down a couple of gears. Every stable has their low points in a season but after the peaks that Hannon has scaled this summer, the troughs were always [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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