Expert Eye could come out on top in a clash of the Newmarket titans down in Sussex and there’s an interesting 20-1 shot laterSteve Cauthen once said of the start of the season, all your geese are swans just now, and that’s how it is for a punter on a summer’s morning like this one. You make your picks for Goodwood and Galway, read some previews, look at the odds, find out what others have plumped for. Some of it makes you feel even more excited about your own fancies... Related: Glorious Goodwood: Gosden makes case for staying horses after Stradivarius win Goodwood 1.50 Imphal 2.25 Making Miracles (nap) 3.00 Soldier’s Call 3.35 Expert Eye 4.10 Alhakmah 4.45 Magnolia Springs...
The Irish raider, a 4-1 shot for today’s big race, can cause an upset on day one of Glorious GoodwoodEd Arkell, who took over from the long-serving Seamus Buckley as Goodwood’s clerk of the course at the start of the season, has issued a bulletin on the going ahead of his first Glorious Goodwood. Related: Glorious Goodwood: Stradivarius back in tune for Gosden and chases £1m Goodwood 1.50 Silver Line 2.25 Cosmic Law (nb) 3.00 Sir Dancealot (nap) 3.35 Torcedor 4.10 Al Mureib 4.45 Pettochside 5.15 Dance On The Day Continue reading...
Tony Curtis (3.00), the first horse out from the rail with an obvious chance and form with cut in the ground, is the pick in the big betting race of the dayThe Group One action at this year’s Glorious Goodwood is now in the form book, and while there were five winning favourites on Thursday’s card, including Winter in the Nassau Stakes, there is still a good deal of punters’ money in the bookies’ satchels after two very difficult opening days.Valuable and competitive handicaps are the centrepiece of the final cards on Friday and Saturday, offering a chance to recoup at least some of the losses, and the likelihood that most backers will end up digging a deeper hole. Friday’s...
Winter (3.35) is on course to win her fourth Group One of the season for Aidan O’Brien in the Nassau StakesThe weather forecast is a good deal better for Goodwood on Thursday afternoon after a day when the track received as much rain in a day as it would normally expect in the whole of August, but the damage has already been done. The going is officially soft, heavy in places and there are already 22 non-runners spread across the seven races, a quarter of the original 88 horses declared.Three significant contenders – Wuheida, Shutter Speed and Nezwaah – are out of what was originally a nine-runner field for Thursday’s Group One Nassau Stakes, but at the time of writing,...
Big Orange is the favourite for the first running of the Goodwood Cup as a Group 1 race but Stradivarius has improved with every step up in tripBig Orange has drifted a little this morning for the first running of the Goodwood Cup as a Group 1 race, from odds-on on Monday evening to a top price of evens with several firms, including a handful who might actually lay more than tuppence ha’penny. It remains a very lopsided market, however, with every other horse in the 14-strong field on offer at double-figure odds since the chances arrayed against Michael Bell’s gelding are all seen as much of a muchness.The fact that there is still a mention of “soft” in the...