Saturday 1st August 1.55 Goodwood – Bluesquarepoker.com Stakes This is a tricky looking opener where a case could be made for most of the runners. BECAUSEWECAN remains unexposed over this sort of trip and looks on a winnable mark based on his staying on third over a furlong further on Wednesday. Neil Callan takes over from Royston [...]
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Friday 31st July 2.10 Goodwood – Coutts Glorious Stakes Mark Johnston has won this race three times in the last decade, the last of which was Crosspeace in 2006. Owned by a Favourites Racing syndicate, he had won the 1m2f heritage handicap on day one of the Festival prior to scoring under Royston Ffrench. Jump forward three [...]
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Thursday 30th July 2.10 Goodwood – Summer Vase Stakes Only two horses have carried more than 9st to victory in this race in the last decade and both of those were trained by Mark Johnston so let’s have a look at his runners first. ROMAN REPUBLIC was an impressive winner on his reappearance at Doncaster in June [...]
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Wednesday 29th July 2.10 Goodwood – Range Rover Best of British Goodwood Stakes It may not be the classiest race but this 2m5f marathon is one of my favourite races from Glorious Goodwood. SOM TALA heads the weights after his hard fought victory in the Northumberland Plate but he will find this tougher off a 3lbs higher [...]
Monday, July 27, 2009
Tuesday 28th July 2.10 Goodwood – Paul Goes The Extra Mile Stakes Mark Johnston has won this race twice in the last decade with horses carrying 9st 9lbs and 9st 10lbs, suggesting that we should not be put off by the fact that DRUMFIRE is shouldering top-weight tomorrow. This is the horse which fell in the 2007 [...]
Friday, July 31, 2009