The 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, Aidan O’Brien’s Winter (3.35) is still on course to her fourth Group One of the season.
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