The Racing Horse offers our unique and insightful Racecourse Template for Goodwood Thursday 28 July 2022. There is a 7-race card containing 3 Handicaps, a Maiden Fillies' Stakes, a Group 3, a Group 2 & a Group 1. The going is expected to be good to firm, good in places.

GOODWOOD FAVOURITES (5 years)
Non-handicap                  Handicap
2yo   35-93   38%    -6.72    8-20     40%    +7.38
3yo   27-74   36%   -10.89    40-132   30%    -6.33
4yo+  27-51   53%   +13.40    68-170   40%   +46.09
TOTAL 89-218  41%    -4.21    116-322  36%   +47.14

TOP 5 TRAINERS at Goodwood last 5 years     +/-   E
C & M Johnston (15%) 37-280   00%  -88.66   -2%   5
A Balding (15%)	     32-213   15%  -44.04   +0%   5
W Haggas (23%)	     27-125   22%   -0.64   -1%   1
R Beckett (17%)	     18-111   16%  +17.18   -1%   3
R Hannon (12%)	     18-249    7%  -90.00   -5%   5

TOP 5 JOCKEYS at Goodwood last 5 years      +/-   R
O Murphy (19%)	 44-241   18%   -15.22      -1%   0
J Crowley (19%)	 25-161   16%   -73.92      -3%   3
W Buick (22%)	 24-121   20%   -22.75      -2%   6
H Bentley (13%)	 23-121   19%   +57.63      +6%   0
T Marquand (14%) 22-181   12%   -28.35      -2%   4

TOP 5 OWNERS at Goodwood last 5 years       +/-   E
Ham Al Maktoum (21%)  18-74   24%  -15.92   +3%   0
Godolphin (24%)       14-93   15%  -42.30   -9%   4
K Abdullah (25%)      10-30   33%  +31.09   +8%   0
Moham A Maktoum (15%) 10-68   15%   -6.16   +0%   0
Shadwell Estate (22%)  7-27   26%   +9.56   +4%   1

HOT TRAINERS 28/06/2022 to 27/07/2022       +/-   E

FIXTURES
Thursday 25 July 2022
Friday 26 July 2022
Saturday 27 July 2022

FAVOURITES: Goodwood is generally and incorrectly regarded as not a good course for favourites given the scrimmaging and trouble in running that occurs there, but that is NOT reflected in our figures over the past 5 years, so nothing to do with the cutaway!

DAY 1: Favourites won 3 of the 8 races for 38% at prices of 6/4, 7/4 and 5/2 returning a +0.75pt profit so in keeping with our original figures.
DAY 2: Favourites won 5 of the 7 races at prices of  11/4, 10/3, 1/6, 10/3 & 5/6 returning a +8.34 profit
TOTAL TO DATE: 8-15 for 53% (+9.09).
It looks tougher for winning favourites tomorrow and 2 winners might be the par figure...

TRAINERS: Leading trainer at the Festival after 2 days is Charlie Appleby (29%) with 2 winners, from his last 12 runners 7 have won for 58%. He has 4 runners tomorrow and 3 of those run in the 1.50.

Interesting Kyprios apart, trainer Aidan O'Brien is not sending a big team to Goodwood this week, just one more runner tomorrow.

JOCKEYS: Hollie Doyle (14%) is 0-10 for the Goodwood Festival but rides NASHWA 3.35 who has been nominated Pacafi status! Interesting to note Tom Marquand (14%) is 0-8 so the husband and wife team 0-18 for this Festival. How ironic the husband and wife ride the first and second favourites in this Group 1 and both desperate to beat each other. Has this ever happened before in racing? We very much doubt it!

William Buick (22%) leads Ryan Moore (18%) 3-2 at the Festival this year and the former looks to have the better set of rides tomorrow to increase his lead?

OWNERS: Godolphin (24%) have 4 runners tomorrow and 3 of those are in the same race, their runners are BLUE TRAIL, NATURAL WORLD & WARREN POINT 1.50 and NEW LONDON 3.00.

Shadwell Estate (22%) have a single entry in WANEES 1.50

BY THE WAY: We enjoyed collecting on the Baaeed/Modern Games CSF and that was the real deal!

BY THE WAY 2: Cieren Fallon (13%) appears to be dropping down the pecking order, goes to Nottingham today for 3 rides and just 1 at Goodwood tomorrow. We believe he is struggling to ride at 8st 4lbs, but not sure that explains things. He rides GOOD MEASURE 2.05 Nottingham today for William Haggas so worth a second look. He's on a small losing run at the moment and will be grumpy if he cannot ride a winner there...

JASON WEAVER ON GOODWOOD

Goodwood’s stewards are surely among the busiest in Britain, as it’s tricky to ride and it’s easy to run into traffic problems, especially on the round course. The bottom turn claims its share of victims, because the ground there runs away from you, while the bend into the home straight is very sharp. You get congestion on the dogleg, too, as normally a fair few are still in contention at that point. On the sprint course, the quickest way home is in a straight line, which means the middle is usually a good spot.