Guiding you through all of Saturday’s TV races, plus tips for all of the day’s action around the courses in BritainA horse that finished last of 27 on its latest start is not, on the face of it, an obvious contender for one of the Flat season’s most valuable and competitive handicaps, but there are several more positive reasons to believe that Shanghai Glory (3.35) will give trainer Charlie Hills his second win in the Stewards’ Cup in three years this afternoon at Goodwood. Related: Brilliant Battaash on course for Nunthorpe battle with Lady Aurelia 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...
Charlie McBride insists there was ‘no collusion and no ulterior motive’ behind the embarrassing chain events that led to the wrong horse winning on ThursdayThe trainer at the centre of the wrong winner fiasco at Yarmouth on Thursday has insisted there was “no collusion and no ulterior motive” behind the embarrassing chain of events that led to his horse winning the opening race.Charlie McBride believed he had saddled the 50-1 shot Mandarin Princess before the first race of the day at the Norfolk track but it was in fact stablemate Millie’s Kiss who had been sent out, a three-year-old running against two-year-olds, and who passed the post in first place. Millie’s Kiss was due to run later on the same...