Glorious Goodwood 2023 tips: Selections for Saturday
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We’ve posted Glorious Goodwood 2023 tips for every race at this year’s five-day festival and are finishing off with seven selections for Saturday’s card.
Following on from Royal Ascot, this has been another great occasion in Britain’s social and sporting calendars, but we’re focusing on the action on the turf.
Richard Fahey’s four-year-old gelding has won twice this season when the word soft featured in the going description and a couple of solid placed efforts at Ayr and Yarmouth last month also came on an easy surface.
Has to cope with top weight and a career-high mark after following up a gutsy Newmarket success by finishing second of 19 in the Duke of Edinburgh Stakes at Royal Ascot, going down by just a neck to Okita Soushi, but he is clearly in great spirits right now.
Free Wind will be hard to beat if back to the form which brought her four straight Group-class victories but she was below par at Royal Ascot and could be worth taking on at a short price.
Time Lock has developed a habit of travelling well in races and then not quite going through with it at the business end, but this well-bred daughter of Frankel has obvious ability and we’re hoping this is the day when everything clicks.
Juddmonte’s racing manager Barry Mahon commented: “She’s in good form and we think a mile and six (furlongs) will bring out a bit more improvement in her. It’s similar opposition to what she’s met so far, apart from Free Wind.
“I think we’ve got her wrong ground-wise. Last year, one of her most impressive performances was on quick ground at Newmarket and she looked to skip off it, but Ryan (Moore) felt she really didn’t like it at Haydock.
“Looking at her, we always thought she wanted soft ground, but that performance at Newmarket had us thinking we were wrong. Over a mile and six with a bit of cut in the ground, I’m not saying she’ll win, but I think she’ll be competitive.”
Found the ground a touch lively in the Wokingham at Royal Ascot but still wasn’t beaten too far in finishing 10th of 27 and is worth sticking with now that conditions are back in his favour.
Bielsa was a nice second at Redcar on soft going on his seasonal reappearance and went one better in a 21-runner affair at York in May, hitting the front a furlong out and then holding on in game fashion.
North Yorkshire handler Grant Tuer has been doing well with his string this season and this likeable filly has been one of his flag bearers, claiming four wins and finishing an unlucky second here on Tuesday when the saddle slipped early on.
Only four of the 14 runners in this 7f maiden have appeared in public before and Charlie Johnston’s son of Too Darn Hot can make the most of the experience he gained when second to previous scorer Cerulean Bay at Ayr after taking a while to get the hang of things.
After letting favourite backers down at Windsor, this seven-year-old recouped those losses with a convincing Kempton victory on the all-weather and we know he handles cut underfoot on turf from his past exploits in France.
