Glorious Goodwood betting

The famous July races, described by King Edward VII as 'a garden party with racing tacked on' are world renowned. Taking place at what is often described as 'the world's most beautiful racecourse' the five-day Festival Meeting is a riot of colour, fashion, famous faces and spectacular hats. A firm fixture in the English summer Season for 200 years, all of society's cognoscenti descend on Goodwood each year to revel in its ravishing setting as well as to marvel at the world's top jockeys, trainers and horses as they battle it out on top of the Sussex Downs.

The views are truly breathtaking, and there are few sporting spectacles more exhilarating than watching the world's greatest thoroughbreds battling for the honours.

Goodwood makes its own fashion statement - casual linen suits and Panama hats for the gentlemen and flirty summer frocks topped with eye-catching hats for the ladies. Its as much about effortless chic as it is about horseracing at its most relaxed and chic. A drying day and the ground was changed a notch to reflect it. With a breeze against the runners, this race was going to be a test even before Daggernought set a strong pace clear of the pack. Nothing was left on the bridle into the final two furlongs but that alone should not devalue this Group 3. Yasoodd and Stepping Up have solid Group 3 form and, on the face of it, their never-nearer finishes behind the first five gives the bare form a solid look, although Araafa reversed form with the pair in filling an honourable third.
HURRICANE CAT has a progressive profile and the relatively late foal pricked his ears when ahead after taking time to respond to rousting along from halfway. He shapes as if further will prove no problem. However, 33-1with VCbet for the 2,000 Guineas makes scant appeal, as he looks some way down the Ballydoyle pecking order and sure to improve through next season with more precocious types ahead of him earlier, although he can uphold the Group 3 mantle of this race.

This decent contest was run at a good clip, which played into the hands of TURNKEY. A winner on bad ground last spring, he had later run creditably in Group company but had not been seen since disappointing in the Gimcrack at York in August.
Settled in mid-division, he made him move approaching the furlong mark and kept on well up the hill to win in the style of a horse who should appreciate an extra furlong.
Gifted Gamble had a bit to find with a few of these rivals on last year's form, but he confirmed that he had trained on with an excellent effort in second - though this ground may have suited him better than it did some of those behind.
One Putra, an all-the-way winner at Windsor last season, ran another good race from the front but could find nothing extra from the furlong mark. However, trainer Michael Jarvis expressed himself well-satisfied with this first run of the season from the colt and reckoned there was a nice race to be won with him this year