Richard Hannon Looking Forward To Glorious Goodwood

Tue, Jul 20, 2010

Richard Hannon hosted a media visit to his main yard at Herridge in Wiltshire today organised by Goodwood Racecourse ahead of the five days of Glorious Goodwood next week.

The trainer will deploy a team of between 16 and 25 horses at Glorious Goodwood headed by Canford Cliffs and maybe Dick Turpin in the Group One Sussex Stakes over a mile on Wednesday, July 28.

He remarked: “Both Canford Cliffs and Dick Turpin will stay in training as four-year-olds. I think Canford Cliffs will handle Goodwood well – he didn’t like the dip at Newmarket but would not settle that day.

“The Sussex Stakes is going to be one of the highlights of the week and if we happen to get rain then Dick Turpin could run as well.

Hannon traditionally sends a strong team of two-year-olds to Goodwood and he will be well-represented next week.

He added: “We will certainly have runners in the nurseries and the maidens. There are a couple of very nice colts who will probably run in the maidens – one is by Dubawi, a lovely horse his owner Malih Al Basti gave £140,000 for at the Doncaster breeze-ups called Big Issue.

“Pausanias, one of Sir Alex’s (Ferguson), is very nice too and this Kyllachy colt will go to Goodwood too.”