Glorious Goodwood

Just looking at the opener on Wednesday, it looks like it might be a good betting race if you fancy anything strongly.

Of the top ten (in a field of 13!) on adjusted RPRs, only two are shorter than 10/1 and the favourite isn't among them.
 
In the Sussex Stakes, I've taken 3/1 Order Of Australia in the market without Baaeed. Obviously he has Alcohol Free (15/8) to beat and I have a 5lbs margin in her favour but will she be able to replicate her July Cup performance at this trip? I also thought Order Of Australia looked better than ever last time so he might have hit an upward curve at the age of five. I'm happy enough to pay to find out.
 
Desert Orchid said:
In the Sussex Stakes, I've taken 3/1 Order Of Australia in the market without Baaeed. Obviously he has Alcohol Free (15/8) to beat and I have a 5lbs margin in her favour but will she be able to replicate her July Cup performance at this trip? I also thought Order Of Australia looked better than ever last time so he might have hit an upward curve at the age of five. I'm happy enough to pay to find out.
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Alcohol Free did win it last year and it is a target race often chosen by the owner. Favourite is something special but AF showed she was back to approaching her best LTO. I'm both biased and already committed for a small stake. Depending on how I feel on the morning, might go and cheer her on.
 
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You'd have to think Hollaway Boy's perfomance was outstanding in the Chesham.

First time on the racecourse out the back door until Danny T said go 2 furlongs out and he runs past the entire field to win.

It' has to be a concern he was allowed to go off at 40/1 but probably his trainer thought he was vabove average let's have a crack and see what happens.

Horses who win races like that often have been flattered and end up losing next time but he was so impressive I have to say fook it and have a 5star***** Bet Hollaway Boy 11/5 bfe
 
Tout Seul said:
Alcohol Free did win it last year and it is a target race often chosen by the owner. Favourite is something special but AF showed she was back to approaching her best LTO. I'm both biased and already committed for a small stake. Depending on how I feel on the morning, might go and cheer her on.
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I'd say her July Cup win was a different level from her win in this race last year. She had shown signs in other races that the trip was a problem but that might just be down to not coming to herself until the other week. But that's why I asked the question about whether she can replicate her July Cup form. If she can she's clearly second best behind the favourite.

I was gutted that she beat my horse in the July Cup but she's a totally admirable type so it was a great day for connections and all her fans. Baaeed is one hell of a nut to have to crack but if she can replicate that last run here she should probably be odds on in the market without the fav.
 
Being a Holloway boy for the first few years of my life I had a throwaway bet LTO just because. Did better than all those I spent hours researching.
 
Tanlic said:
OOPS!!! just read it was a woman's prison Duh!!! :whistle:
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Not worth thinking about, Tan!

Holloway Road was where I was actually born and raised. The shops on Seven Sisters Road I used to frequent a lot. I went to secondary school just up the road in Tufnell Park. I moved North in my late teens as my mum was a geordie.

All that said I have taken Holloway Boy on tomorrow with Galeron. The dark horse in the field.
 
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Windsor Road, just down from Seven Sisters. Nan and Grandad lived a few hundred yards along the Cally. Grandad was Park keeper at Highbury Fields.
 
Don’t forget the following.....

Course form. It’s not for every horse and those that have performed well here in the past, often do again.

Also Mark Johnston ALWAYS targets this meeting and has been quoted recently saying he could have run horses elsewhere but has saved them for this week.
 
Maybe I should be committed, considering the money I left in was supposed to do me till the jumps got going again, I now have zero pounds in my Betfair account having put the lot, that was left after the King George meeting, on Hollaway Boy.

Plus she's got my visa card and is going shopping tomorrow.....Tuesday could be a bad day all round for me.:lol:
 
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Tanlic said:
Maybe I should be committed I now have zero pounds in my Betfair account having put the lot, that was left after the King George meeting, on Hollaway Boy.

Plus she's got my visa card and is going shopping tomorrow.....Tuesday could be a bad day all round for me.:lol:
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Good luck Tan the horse has a big chance and I'd be happy to see him win I just thought there were a lot of unknowns in terms of the other horses potential. Good luck though.
 
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Tout Seul said:
Windsor Road, just down from Seven Sisters. Nan and Grandad lived a few hundred yards along the Cally. Grandad was Park keeper at Highbury Fields.
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Aw thats lovely yes Highbury Fields was a place I used to train with my team in the late 1990s. We won the Camden and Islington Cup Final in 1997, 5-4 in extra time, and I got man of the match. We played at some football pitches at the back of Kings Cross called Coram Fields on astro turf. I was asked to train for West Ham after that but I had an ankle injury my ankle would keep giving way in matches and aged 12 I just wasn't ready.

Lovely London memories.
 
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Good luck, Fist, You're a braver man than I am sending your visa card shopping, and backing a Chesham winner at Goodwood.
 
I’ve backed Galeron too. Holloway Boy did extremely well first time out but the Chesham is only a listed race at the end of the day and the form hasn’t exactly been franked.

Bet of the day for me tomorrow is Stone of Destiny at c. 10/1 in the sprint. Including the 5lb claim he’s running off a near astonishing 79. I say that as it was only a year ago he was rated in the 100s, as when he was unlucky in the Dash off 102 and arguably again when switched to group company in the Coral Charge at Sandown.

It’s not too difficult to make excuses for his runs this year and it’s not often you see a horse running off a claim adjusted mark which is 25lbs lower than he was at this meeting last year. He’s running in a handicap now. Then he ran in the G2 King George and was only beaten 7 lengths, in front of horses like Battaash, Art Power and Liberty Beach.
 
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reet hard said:
Good luck, Fist, You're a braver man than I am sending your visa card shopping, and backing a Chesham winner at Goodwood.
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Well if she overdoes it there will be a Battleground.......speaking of which Battleground won the Chesham then won at Goodwood only 2 seasons ago:p
 
wilsonl said:
I’ve backed Galeron too. Holloway Boy did extremely well first time out but the Chesham is only a listed race at the end of the day and the form hasn’t exactly been franked.

Bet of the day for me tomorrow is Stone of Destiny at c. 10/1 in the sprint. Including the 5lb claim he’s running off a near astonishing 79. I say that as it was only a year ago he was rated in the 100s, as when he was unlucky in the Dash off 102 and arguably again when switched to group company in the Coral Charge at Sandown.

It’s not too difficult to make excuses for his runs this year and it’s not often you see a horse running off a claim adjusted mark which is 25lbs lower than he was at this meeting last year. He’s running in a handicap now. Then he ran in the G2 King George and was only beaten 7 lengths, in front of horses like Battaash, Art Power and Liberty Beach.
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What do you make of West End Charmer in the first, Lee?

We both liked him for Royal Ascot.

I am with Moktasaab tomorrow but I fear West End Charmer on a going day. Bearing in mind what Jinny said above. I may end up kicking myself after this race tomorrow. Please no.
 
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Alright lads its been a while I'll be taking in some of the racing this week as I've got a bit of time off work I'll be opening the batting with the 2 Bahrain Bandits in the first tomorrow. Best of luck ;)

Hope you're all well.
 
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