Glorious Goodwood: watch trainers and jockeys discuss their hopes
William Haggas, John Gosden and Roger Varian were among several Newmarket trainers to issue updates today on their leading hopes ahead of next calendar week'south Qatar Goodwood Festival, live on Racing TV.
Haggas' team is spearheaded by unbeaten superstar Baaeed, the world's tiptop-rated turf horse, who is on course for a matchup with leading 3-yr-old Coroebus in the Grouo One Qatar Sussex Stakes on Wednesday, July 27.
Successful in the Group Three Bonhams Thoroughbred Stakes at last year's meeting, Baaeed has since registered 4 consecutive victories at Group One level, most recently dominating in the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Speaking at a media event organised by Goodwood Racecourse, Haggas said: "We are all set to go with Baaeed, hopefully. He worked this morning and, provided everything is OK over the adjacent couple of days, nosotros are away and volition meet what evolves.
"Coroebus is evidently a loftier-form horse. Two of ours finished third and fourth [My Prospero and Maljoom] backside him in the St James'south Palace Stakes, not beaten far. I was non that impressed with him – and I have to be careful because he is a very smart equus caballus – but I don't call back he was at his best that day. I retrieve Maljoom, and I don't recollect this is only trainer talk, would have won in another couple of strides. At the moment, there is a fair bit of distance between Baaeed and Maljoom.
"I don't think Baaeed has much to show only his pedigree smacks of further. He relaxes and so well, he has a great mind, and I would beloved to run into him over farther at York in Juddmonte International. I call back then vividly when Frankel won that race, it was like a piece of work for him. Anyone who was there, information technology fabricated your hairs stand up upward because he was imperious. I hope that Baaeed would exist able to travel every bit strongly so be able to apply his plow of foot. I am very keen to have a become.
"Nosotros are merely starting to say amongst ourselves in the yard that we need to set for life after him – which I know sounds a chip pathetic – considering he won't be around for u.s.a. to enjoy next year. Finding another one is the target."
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Baaeed will merely be Haggas' 2d runner in the mile highlight after Argentinian-bred Eventuail finished 8th in 1998.
The trainer added: "I can't recollect having many runners in the Sussex but information technology is a race I would love to win. I am ever watching information technology on television thinking why haven't I got a horse practiced enough?"
Of his other probable runners, Haggas said: "The World Pool Lennox Stakes looks the obvious race for Sacred, as she likes seven furlongs and fast footing. Nosotros are going to get out her in the Qatar Sussex Stakes at the owner'due south request, just in example the race cuts up, just vii is her best trip.
"We had a similar trouble with I Main, who was a seven-furlong specialist. The just Group 1 race in Europe for iv-year-olds over 7 is the Prix de la Foret in October, when the ground is soft. One Main loved the soft whereas Sacred doesn't, so information technology is difficult to know where to get.
"We will run only one in the Qatar Nassau Stakes and it volition either exist Lilac Road, who wants fast footing, or My Astra, who can't have information technology soft enough. I suspect it will be Lilac Road, because we take had this in heed since she won the Middleton. Information technology is her part-owner Julia Aisbitt'south birthday on Nassau day, so this looks a good target.
"Sea La Rosa will run in the Qatar Lillie Langtry Stakes. She won over a mile and five furlongs at Lingfield concluding yr, and so she will stay the trip well. She is very tough and very hardy, only I tin't see anything beating Free Current of air if she puts up a performance similar to Haydock.
"Montassib volition go for the Coral Golden Mile. We own him, which costs money, and he is perfect for all these sort of races. I suspect he will finish upwardly in a race similar the Balmoral at the cease of the year."
Montassib was not beaten far in the Bunbury Cup terminal fourth dimension out
Hugely popular stayer Stradivarius is set to bring the curtain downwardly on his remarkable career in the feature Group One Al Shaqab Goodwood Cup on Tuesday, July 26. Stradivarius created history in 2020 by becoming the first four-time winner of the two-mile showpiece but the eight-year-old was forced to miss concluding year'southward race due to testing footing.
His co-trainer John Gosden said: "Stradivarius is happy. He has maintained his enthusiasm for the game throughout and enjoys his grooming. We couldn't really be more pleased with him for a chap at this phase of his career, so nosotros are very much looking forward to it.
"He was at Goodwood in the stables last year, when Thady and I walked the rail. The water was lying on the top of the track, and nosotros knew that wasn't for him. It is a pity he couldn't have run because every time he has run at Goodwood, he's won a Goodwood Loving cup.
"Y'all are very lucky to take a horse or a racemare similar that ever come to you, then to savor their longevity and their amazing consistency at that height level. That is testament to the horse, the breeder, and to have that constitution is pretty remarkable. That is probably what has been and then fulfilling and the fact he is rather like Enable was. Expressive, rather outgoing, joyous.
"His offset Goodwood Cup and his starting time Gold Cup would be the highlights – winning the Goodwood Cup as a three-year-former and then the Gold Cup as a 4-year-sometime. He has built on that down the years. There aren't many Apartment horses who stay around like him. I e'er remember when Rachel and I came back from America, we made a point of getting in the machine and taking notwithstanding long it took to get there to run across Desert Orchid run in the Cheltenham Gold Cup. We had a cup of tea and came back. It was something like six hours on the road for the sake of being there for half an 60 minutes, but it was very much worth it. When you accept a horse similar that, they are unique, and they need to be celebrated.
"It is pretty set who the primal horses are in the Goodwood Loving cup. Nosotros're happy at two miles or 2 and a half miles. Stradivarius would run a big race over a mile and a half. And so, to that extent I have been pleased with him all forth and we're looking frontwards to it. He is quick on his feet and agile. That ever helps around Goodwood. It is a down turning rail and he probably enjoys the twists and turns of information technology. He probably finds it quite entertaining, like a fairground ride."
Team Gosden is set to run 2 leading fillies at the meeting, with Group One Prix de Diane winner Nashwa in the Group One Qatar Nassau Stakes on Thursday, July 28, and the prolific Free Wind in the Group Two Qatar Lillie Langtry Stakes on Sabbatum, July 30.
Thady Gosden said: "Nashwa has been very well since France. She ran in the Oaks and then backed upwards a few days afterward in French republic, which is a pretty serious testament to her. She had a pretty hard race at Epsom and ran an infrequent race. She didn't quite stay but still managed to come third. She has been a bit quiet since France every bit yous would expect. She travelled all the way over to Chantilly and ran a huge race there, only she is coming back to herself now and seems in good shape for next week.
"She is obviously a very well-bred colt and ane we have always liked. I call back they fifty-fifty liked her at Blue Diamond on the farm when she was younger. She came to us and always had a bit about her. She took a bit of time to mature last year and has just improved with every run this twelvemonth.
"Hollie [Doyle] has given her a few brilliant rides, especially in France. Getting to the front at that place, information technology's not an easy rails to ride and y'all tin always finish up finding plenty of trouble. She's versatile enough in that regard and hopefully that volition arrange her at Goodwood. We all know Hollie is a brilliant jockey and tactically very acute.
"It is a huge achievement for an possessor-breeder to have a horse of this calibre. Information technology is a very competitive game and a real testament to Imad Al Sagar, Blue Diamond and all of the team for convenance a filly like her.
"Complimentary Wind didn't have the smoothest trip circular at Haydock last time out, simply she came out of that race in bang-up form. We are looking at the Qatar Lillie Langtry Stakes for her, which is a race that has gone from strength to strength over the years. She has won at Goodwood and is pretty versatile with regards to trip and running manner. You lot tin driblet her in wherever you like. She doesn't want extremes, but she handles about basis."
Roger Varian is excited past the chances of progressive sprinter Mitbaahy in the Group Two Male monarch George Qatar Stakes on Friday, July 29.
Following fashionable wins in a conditions race at Hamilton and the Listed Scurry Stakes at Sandown Park, the 3-year-erstwhile was unlucky not to complete the three-timer when going down past a cervix in the Group 3 Coral Charge back at Sandown Park on July 2.
Varian said: "Mitbaahy looked very unlucky in the Coral Charge. He was fatigued in stall i and I hated it equally shortly every bit I saw it. He likes to come from off the pace and it is and then hard to get room to run at Sandown when y'all are on the fence. He was locked abroad and, take nothing abroad from the winner, but we but couldn't become there in time.
"Information technology showed us that Mitbaahy is withal improving. I think he is a actually smart five-furlong equus caballus in the making. The harder they get, the stronger he will come abode. I would be really excited nigh him heading into this race. I don't think I would bandy him for anything else."
Regarding his other entries, Varian said: "We were really pleased with Laneqash's Listed win at Chester. I recall he had been on the wrong side of a photo finish in iii Stakes races before then. That was his first win since his debut as a ii-year-onetime, even though he has run some very good races subsequently.
"He has come out of Chester in very skilful grade and the Earth Pool Lennox is very much the plan. He is a meridian-of-the-footing horse and could exist well-suited to Goodwood, given that it can reward horses similar him who similar to go far on the scene late. It is usually a very stiff contest and will be a difficult race to win, but he ticks a lot of boxes.
"Believe In Honey could well run in the Qatar Lillie Langtry Stakes. She is at her best over a mile and six furlongs. She is a three-fourth dimension Grouping Three winner and was merely touched off in the Group One on Arc weekend terminal season, so she brings some good grade to the table. She ran very well in the Lancashire Oaks final time out, when she was caught out off a very steady gallop. I think she is better with some ease of the basis but she is versatile. She should accept a solid chance.
"Saint Lawrence would be a possibility for the Coral Stewards' Cup, although he did disappoint usa in the Hackwood Stakes at the weekend. He ran a adept race in the Male monarch's Stand Stakes at Majestic Ascot, when he came home well, and he was 3rd in the Palace House Stakes at the start of the yr. He seems to enjoy the early on tempo of those five-furlong races. He gets a scrap lost earlier coming home well and I think the hustle and bustle of a Stewards' Cup could suit."
Derby runner-up Hoo Ya Mal has joined George Boughey ahead of a tilt at the Grouping Three John Pearce Racing Gordon Stakes. Formerly with Andrew Balding, Hoo Ya Mal was originally bound for Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott in Commonwealth of australia after selling for £1.ii million at the Goffs London Sale earlier Royal Ascot.
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Boughey explained: "Hoo Ya Mal has settled in well. Johnny McKeever, who bought the horse for Gai, was looking for someone to train him because he missed the commencement shipment to Commonwealth of australia.
"I idea personally going into the Derby that he would struggle to stay, but he seemed to stay very well. He was given a expert hold-up ride that solar day and I think that is how nosotros will await to ride him in the Gordon Stakes. William Buick rode him yesterday morning and was delighted. Gai has decided to have the hood off him and he seems very relaxed without it."
Of his other leading hopes, Boughey said: "Koy Koy is in at Ascot this weekend, simply I am favouring the Coral Golden Mile. I have just had him a short period of fourth dimension and he was able to win at Newmarket over the weekend, despite running loose for a mile beforehand. He conspicuously has a level of ability.
"Inver Park has been a well-plotted horse past Sam Haggas, who bought him in December terminal yr. He said this horse is going to win the Buckingham Palace and I looked at him like he had two heads – then he won the Buckingham Palace! Sam said his side by side race is the Coral Stewards' Cup, so I'm doing as I'thousand told. In fairness, I e'er thought he was a 6-furlong horse and he surprised me over seven at Royal Ascot.
"California Gem will become for the Jaeger-LeCoultre Plant nursery Handicap. She has won ii novices, including at Beverley, which should stand up her in good stead at Goodwood. I hope she might be upward to running in some Black Type races at some point."
George Scott is looking forward to saddling leading juvenile Rocket Rodney in the Group Three Markel Molecomb Stakes on Wed, July 27. After an impressive novice race success at Goodwood, the Dandy Man colt was beaten a neck by Little Big Bear at Purple Ascot, before comfortably going one better in the Listed Dragon Stakes at Sandown Park on July 1.
Scott said: "We thought Rocket Rodney would testify upwardly well at Imperial Ascot because he posted some good numbers before and then, although I was surprised to see him and then competitive. Niggling Big Deport was a pretty comfy winner and has since taken a large step forward just so has our horse. He did it well at Sandown and, from a trainer'southward indicate of view, the Molecomb Stakes cannot come soon enough.
"It will be a big aid that he has already been to Goodwood, and he handled information technology bang-up that day. I suppose he will become into the race meridian rated and I am merely praying that we don't choice up a knock in the meantime.
"We exercise a lot of data work with things like eye-charge per unit monitors and cadency. It is very helpful to see how he is progressing between runs because you can compare the data from his piece of work. His data was very good this morning and information technology is clear that he has taken another niggling step forwards. I am as confident as I can be that he is still improving.
"It is really nice to be sat here talking about a good horse again. It has been a while between drinks for us and James Garfield is a bit of a distant retentiveness now. He was a very good two-year-old, but this horse looks faster than him.
"We are also looking forward to Coco Jack in the Jaeger-LeCoultre Nursery and, provided Mr Gosden doesn't accept a runner, Benoit De La Sayette will ride him. He has non done much wrong this flavour and won easily under a double penalty at Brighton. He is a beautiful horse and Middleham Park Racing has merely bought half of him. He should progress considering he is by Wings Of Eagles."
Alice Haynes is expecting to have several runners across the meeting, including Mr Professor in the Coral Kincsem Handicap on Thursday, July 28.
Mr Professor took the notable scalp of Irish gaelic Derby victor Westover in a Listed race at Pontefract in the autumn and acquitted himself well in Dubai at the start of this year, including when 2nd in the Listed Jumierah Archetype.
Haynes said: "Mr Professor had a busy time in Dubai and did non run and then well in France or at Chelmsford afterward. He has had a pause since and I tin can't wait to run into him over 10 furlongs. The track volition suit as nosotros have worked out that he doesn't like straight tracks.
"Remarkable Strength is pencilled in for the Coral Plant nursery Handicap. His form from earlier in the season with Chateau and Eddie's Boy is there for all to run into. Half dozen furlongs is a massive question mark. I think he is a pure 5-furlong horse but all the jockeys say he wants further.
"We will also run Mother India in a fillies' maiden. She ran well at Doncaster last week on debut. They went no gallop and she got caught out earlier staying on well to be third. I would expect her to come on a lot from that.
"Playupskyblues volition run in the seven-furlong maiden on Sabbatum. He is by Kodiac and closely related to Sovereign Debt. I bought him at the sales last twelvemonth and he is fix to run. I think 7 furlongs effectually a bend should be a practiced starting point."
The Qatar Sussex Stakes, Al Shaqab Goodwood Cup and Qatar Nassau Stakes are part of the British Champions Series.
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