Glorious Goodwood
Summer's most stylish flat festival on the Sussex Downs — five days of top-class racing.
The Qatar Goodwood Festival — 'Glorious Goodwood' — is the stylish centrepiece of high-summer flat racing, staged over five days on the Sussex Downs at the end of July and into August. It carries a relaxed, garden-party feel alongside a genuinely high-class card, with Group 1 contests across a range of trips.
Goodwood is one of the more idiosyncratic tracks: a right-handed course with tight turns, undulations and a downhill sweep into the straight, so a handy, well-positioned horse that handles the quirks has an advantage over a big, one-paced galloper. The draw and tactical speed can matter, particularly over the sprint trips, and quick summer ground is common — proven form on a turning track and on a sound surface is a useful pointer.
The championship races
- Sussex Stakes
- Goodwood Cup
- Nassau Stakes
- Stewards' Cup
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