Ribchester and Churchill go head-to-head in the Sussex Stakes as punters hope for a better afternoon than they had on the opening day
The first afternoon at Glorious Goodwood was little short of a disaster for the punters, with complete “skinners” for the bookies in three of the seven races, defeat for the hugely popular Big Orange in the Goodwood Cup and only one successful favourite.
I’ve now been a (very) regular racegoer for about 30 years, and I’m sure that I can remember every one of the 100-1 winners I’ve seen in that time, including Mon Mome in the Grand National and Norton’s Coin in the Gold Cup, Morning Post in the sales race at the Leger meeting a few years ago and even The Dragon Master in a novice chase at Sandown in the early 1990s. I’m also fairly certain that I have never seen a 100-1 winner and a 50-1 winner on the same card, never mind with a 33-1 shot thrown in for good measure.
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