Architect Tips has picked out his favourite bets from day 5 at Glorious Goodwood.
13:50 Goodwood
The seven-year-old AL AASY (best price 7/2) was behind Phantom Flight last time out, but that run should have sorted his fitness out, and he’s fancied to resume winning ways.
His half-length second to the 116-rated Adelaide River in Ireland rates the best form in the field given he was conceding 11lb to the eventual winner, who is tough as nails.
He flopped in his only previous visit here, but he’s a better horse than that, and he holds a few of these on a line through King Of Conquest. He can put it all together and succeed.
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15:00 Goodwood
MELO MELO (best price 11/2) hasn’t been at her best in two starts this year, but if she returns to the form she displayed last year, this French trainer must go well under James Doyle.
She was conceding lumps of weight when narrowly denied by Warm Heart in the Group 1 Qatar Prix Vermeille in September. That form is strong, as the winner was last seen winning the Pegasus World Cup.
This five-year-old has winning form on all sorts of ground, and the step up to this distance should see her back on track. I think she has a great chance of providing France with success.
15:35 Goodwood
The consistent APOLLO ONE (best price 14/1) has surprisingly yet to win a turf handicap of any sort, but he’s regularly been competitive in valuable handicaps and must go well off a 2lb higher mark than when a neck-second in this race last year.
The six-year-old wasn’t so good in a Group 3 last time out, but he’s better suited to bigger fields, and the fact that he came so close to winning this twelve months ago on ground against him was very good. His second in last year’s Wokingham also reads well.
He kicked off this campaign with a pair of placed efforts at Newmarket and Epsom, and given that he likes to be up with the pace, the high draw in 27 that he’s been granted can only increase his chances. This could be the day he finally gets his big day on the grass.
16:10 Goodwood
Indian Run, 0.5 pts E/W, 14/1, 4 places
INDIAN RUN (best price 14/1) shaped much better than the finishing position indicated in the Group 3 Jersey Stakes last time out and is a very interesting candidate on handicap debut.
He won a hot Group 3 race at York last August and was deemed good enough to contest the Dewhurst Stakes on his next start. Even though he finished last, he didn’t disgrace himself.
This is so much easier, and an opening mark of 102 doesn’t look without reach. He’s drawn well in stall 14, and Tom Marquand is booked, so it would come as no surprise to see him run well.
Four places are widely on offer and advised.
17:20 Goodwood
The favourite Native Warrior seems too short for the final race of this year’s Glorious Goodwood, and I’m happy to take him on with two runners who I think are capable of beating him at decent odds.
ROWAYEH (best price 6/1) found the longer trip at Chelmsford last time out too much for her, but she’s better judged on her fourth in the Kensington Palace off this mark and must enter calculations on that piece of form.
She would have finished much closer with a clear passage. Nevertheless, she performed very well in her only previous visit to this course to finish third and remains open to improvement in the handicap ranks.
PARADIAS (best price 9/1) has hit the frame at this meeting for the last two years, and having finished runner-up in a stronger race than this at Epsom in his penultimate start, Alan King’s charge may well make it third time lucky here.
The five-year-old pushed Caius Chorister close at this meeting two years ago, and the winner has boosted the form multiple times since. He did, however, manage to reverse form with three former when a place in front of him in last year’s Chesterfield Cup when fourth.
He travelled into the race very sweetly and looked the likely winner at one point before plugging on late into the piece to nearly grab third. The runner-up, Haunted Dream, is now rated in the 100s and won a hot conditions race here yesterday, so again, the selections’ form has worked out well.
Two starts back, he pushed the 100-rated Bolster very close at Epsom when two places in front of the re-opposing Haunted Dream, doing best of those held-up. He’s peculiarly been left on the same mark of 94, and his experience of this course and meeting is advantageous.
Rossa Ryan gets on well with him, and his record on ground no worse than good to soft at this level or lower, reads 22312321. Additionally, he’s drawn well in stall 4, so with plenty of positives to draw upon, he’s surely a major contender.
