Rhoscolyn continued his Goodwood love affair when claiming the valuable Coral Golden Mile. Travelling kindly for Daniel Tudhope throughout, the seven-year-old was in the ideal place to pounce in the closing stages. Stoked up by his rider as the race began to unfold, he surged onto the scene inside the final furlong before galloping a […]
Hugo Palmer’s Seagulls Eleven bagged the big-race victory he has long promised in the Bonhams Thoroughbred Stakes at Goodwood. A son of the trainer’s 2000 Guineas hero Galileo Gold, Seagulls Eleven is owned by several current and former Brighton & Hove Albion footballers, including James Milner and Danny Welbeck. After breaking his duck at Haydock […]
Last year’s winner Term Of Endearment returns to Goodwood, albeit for new connections, for Saturday’s Qatar Lillie Langtry Stakes. Having previously won twice at Group Three level, the six-year-old bagged this Group Two prize 12 months ago for Henry de Bromhead before being sold for 1.3 million guineas at Tattersalls in December. She has failed […]
George Baker will be the proudest man on the Sussex Downs when his star sprinter Get It defends his Coral Stewards’ Cup crown at Goodwood on Saturday. The seven-year-old blazed a trail for a shock 40-1 success 12 months ago and after a similar story in the Wokingham Stakes at Royal Ascot when again making […]
Willie Mullins has described the shock closure of Thurles racecourse as a “huge blow for Irish racing”. The champion trainer has saddled more than 250 winners at the County Tipperary circuit, where the first ever recorded race meeting took place in 1732. Thurles, Ireland’s only privately-owned racehorse, has been in the hands of the Molony […]
The owners of Thurles Racecourse have made the shock announcement that the Irish track is to close with immediate effect. The first ever recorded race meeting at the County Tipperary circuit took place in 1732 and has been in the hands of the Molony family since the early 1900s. The late Pierce Molony took over […]
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Last year’s runner-up Ndaawi was called the winner of the Guinness Galway Hurdle after first past the post Helvic Dream was demoted by the stewards. It is 20 years since trainer Noel Meade saddled his most recent winner of the Ballybrit highlight in More Rainbows but he had come close on several occasions since, while […]
Gold Dancer wore down his front-running stablemate Westport Cove to claim an unlikely victory in the Guinness Open Gate Brewery Novice Chase at Galway. Westport Cove was the 85-40 favourite for the Grade Three contest having opened his account over fences at Ballinrobe in late May and looked in control for much of the way […]
Joe Murphy could hardly have been more proud of Cercene following her second-placed finish in a gruelling renewal of the Qatar Nassau Stakes at Goodwood. A deluge of rain turned the ground heavy and lightning in the area made it impossible for the starting stalls to be utilised, with a flag start instead required in […]
Aidan O’Brien’s Whirl dominated the Qatar Nassau Stakes at Goodwood, to record her second Group One success of the season. The previous race, the Gordon Stakes, was subject to a small delay due to a torrential downpour and when almost 30 millimetres of rain fell in half an hour, the going was changed to heavy. […]
Merchant pulled out all the stops to deny Wimbledon Hawkeye in a thrilling finish to the HKJC World Pool Gordon Stakes in attritional conditions at a gloomy Goodwood. An impressive winner in the King George V Stakes at Royal Ascot, William Haggas’ improving son of Teofilo was sent off the 6-5 favourite to enhance his […]
The third day of the Qatar Goodwood Festival was hit by a huge downpour, leaving racegoers running for cover. After the first two days took place in pleasant weather, the forecast always suggested conditions on day three could take a turn for the worse. The first race passed on good to firm ground, but as […]
Clive Cox won the Markel Richmond Stakes for the third time in seven years as Coppull ran out a comfortable winner at Goodwood, in a race run in torrential rain. Following on from Golden Horde in 2019 and Supremacy 12 months later, Cox bided his time with the son of Bated Breath after a meritorious […]
Five jockeys based in the north of England were involved in a dramatic emergency landing on Thursday, after the light aircraft they were travelling in to Goodwood suffered what is thought to have been an engine problem. Rowan Scott, Callum Rodriguez, PJ McDonald, Tom Eaves and Jack Garritty were flying from Bagby Airfield near Thirsk […]
