Kameko can collect at Glorious Goodwood and return to an upward curve, after failing to stay in the Derby last timeThe Sussex Stakes has more strength in depth than any Group One contest in Europe so far this summer, as the 2,000 Guineas winners from Ireland and England go up against the battle-hardened Circus Maximus and late bloomer Mohaather, bidding to give Marcus Tregoning his first highest-grade win since Sir Percy took the Derby in 2006.Mohaather was five lengths adrift of Circus Maximus in the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot but is fancied to finish in front of him on Wednesday after showing significant improvement to win the Summer Mile last time out. Related: Stradivarius overcomes trouble to win...
Government will be asked to ditch insistence on cash-free betting when bookmakers return at Goodwood on SaturdayBookmakers are to make a last-ditch appeal to the government to relax restrictions around their return to the racecourse at Goodwood this week. Just four bookmakers are to be allowed to bet at the Sussex track on Saturday, when around 5,000 racegoers will be allowed entry, and have been told they must take bets only via cards, not cash, which one bookmaker described as “a disaster waiting to happen”. Related: Enable and Frankie Dettori surge to historic King George victory Market Rasen 12.20 Prince Percy 12.50 Coulonces 1.25 Wisecracker (nb) 1.55 Fubar 2.30 Jacks Last Hope 3.00 Arthur’s Sixpence 3.30 Net Love 4.00 Caviciana...
Goodwood has made little secret of its belief that it would be an ideal venue to trial a limited return of spectators to the track“At the moment, we’re working on plans A to about W,” Adam Waterworth, Goodwood’s managing director, said on Thursday, 12 days before the start of the track’s biggest meeting of the year. “It’s almost harder to stage an event with nobody here than it is in a normal year with thousands of people. “It’s working up multiple plans all at once that really takes the time but you’ve got to do it if you’re going to be ready and next week is when we’ll need to know which plan we need to deliver.” Related: Talking Horses:...
New statistics show the strike rate for French female jockeys is closing in on parity with the men, but what does that prove?Kevin Blake has made another fascinating and provocative contribution to the debate over female jockeys, using his AtTheRaces column to evaluate the statistical effect of French racing’s experiment with a weight allowance. Kevin and I differ on how the numbers should be interpreted but at least we now have some numbers to examine, thanks to his hours of work on the subject in recent weeks.One headline is that the strike rate for all female jockeys in French Flat racing last year was 9.03%, which is up from 6.6% three years earlier and closing in on the average for...
The Newmarket trainer can follow up his sprint handicap victory at Royal Ascot with another at Glorious GoodwoodRoger Varian has evidently developed a taste for sprint handicaps. Having won the Wokingham at Royal Ascot with Cape Byron, the trainer now tilts at the Stewards’ Cup at Goodwood on Saturday with Flavius Titus (3.40), another horse who was racing over further last year but has been transformed by six furlongs.He put up a career best to beat 14 rivals at Newmarket on his April reappearance and bettered that on the July Course two months later. He did not win by far on either occasion but gives the impression there is more to come and this cavalry charge can bring it out...