The scene is set for the world’s greatest horses and jockeys to do battle as they strive for top honours at the iconic five-day Glorious Goodwood meeting, live on Channel 4.
Home of Panamas, Pimm’s and panache, Goodwood always stages a feast of high-quality racing and the 2014 edition will be no different with five days of top class racing action on the famous Sussex Downs.
There are a number of top class races for punters to enjoy during the week including the Sussex Stakes, the Goodwood Cup and the Nassau Stakes among others, with no less than 12 Group races from the most beautiful of racecourse settings.
Five miles north of Chichester in West Sussex, the course is run by the family of the Duke of Richmond, whose seat is nearby at Goodwood House.
Perched high on the South Downs in Sussex, with some of the finest views available at any track in the world, Goodwood has an unusual tight, right-handed loop with the runners starting the longer races running down the finishing straight “the wrong way” before negotiating the loop and coming back down towards the crowds.
The five-day Glorious Goodwood meeting is one of the highlights of the summer flat scene with a diverse range of races, and despite the lure of other notable Flat meetings on the calendar such as Royal Ascot, Goodwood retains its place as one of the important landmarks in the British racing calendar.
Glorious Goodwood is a quintessentially English event and Channel 4 will have live coverage of all five days of the 2014 edition for viewers throughout the week.
With Clare Balding working the Glasgow Commonwealth Games for the BBC, Nick Luck will instead lead Channel 4 Racing’s exclusive terrestrial coverage throughout the week.
All the live Channel 4 programmes from the Sussex Downs start at 1.30pm each day and feature at least four live races, including every day’s feature race.
An array of features will complement the live action during five-day festival, including in-depth interviews with jockeys William Buick and Harry Bentley, stable visits to Richard Hannon with Hannon Senior offering reflections of past Glorious Goodwood successes.
The team will also undertake an array of features that showcase the Goodwood brand from a vintage car ride to an aircraft flight.
Expert analysis and comment will be provided by Jim McGrath, Graham Cunningham and Mick Fitzgerald, race commentary comes from Simon Holt, while Tanya Stevenson will be situated in the betting ring with all the latest news and tips.
Emma Spencer and Gina Bryce will be Channel 4’s roving reporters across the grounds and in the parade ring, while fashion expert Gok Wan returns to the Channel 4 Racing fold for Glorious Goodwood, presenting the fashion and lifestyle content for the final three days, starting on Ladies Day.
Further analysis, reports and news from Goodwood, as well as live streaming of Channel 4’s live coverage, can be found via the Channel 4 horse racing website.
Dedicated horse racing channel Racing UK will broadcast every Glorious Goodwood race live across all five days.
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| DAY 1 TUESDAY 29th JULY |
Glorious Goodwood 2014 gets underway as one of Britain’s most beautiful racecourses plays host to five unmissable days of racing.
Today’s highlights include the Group Two, €150,000 Lennox Stakes, and the Molecomb Stakes for speedy two-year-olds.
C4 Race Card 1:55 bet365.com Stakes 2:30 bet365 Molecombe Stakes 3:05 bet365 Lennox Stakes 3:40 bet365 Summer Stakes| DAY 2 WEDNESDAY 30th JULY |
Nick Luck introduces day two from Glorious Goodwood, which features the biggest race of the week – the €300,000 Group One Sussex Stakes.
Today is being billed as the ‘Duel on the Downs III’, as John Gosden’s star three-year-old miler Kingman takes on last year’s winner Toronado, who a year ago overcame the 2000 Guineas winner Dawn Approach in one of the great races.
C4 Race Card 1:55 Goodwood Stakes 2:30 Neptune Investment Management Gordon Stakes 3:05 QIPCO Sussex Stakes 3:40 Veuve Clicquot Vintage Stakes| DAY 3 THURSDAY 31st JULY |
The Channel 4 Racing team are at the beautiful setting on the Sussex Downs for Ladies Day – day three of Glorious Goodwood.
The highlight is the two-mile Goodwood Cup, first run over 200 years ago and won last year for an emotional Michael Owen by his brave stayer Brown Panther.
He will hopefully return to defend his crown against Her Majesty the Queen’s Estimate – who has finished first and second in the last two Ascot Gold Cups.
C4 Race Card 2:05 Fairmont Stakes 2:45 Qatar Bloodstock Richmond Stakes 3:10 Artemis Goodwood Cup 3:45 Sterling Insurance Lillie Langtry Stakes| DAY 4 FRIDAY 1st AUGUST |
Day four of this wonderful festival of racing, fashion, and fun sees the 5-furlong sprint, the King George Stakes.
Last year’s winner Moviesta, owned partly by Harry Redknapp, will look to become the first dual winner since the great Lochsong 20 years ago. This is one of three group contests today on another top day’s racing.
C4 Race Card 1:55 Coutts Glorious Stakes 2:30 Bonhams Thoroughbred Stakes 3:05 Betfred Mile 3:40 Betfred King George Stakes| DAY 5 SATURDAY 2nd AUGUST |
Glorious Goodwood 2014 comes to a close with a top quality race card on Saturday.
Today’s highlights on the course are the €200,000 Group One Nassau Stakes and the €100,000 Stewards Cup – one of the season’s most competitive sprint handicaps.
Channel 4’s coverage will also feature two races from Newmarket at 2.20 and 2.55.
C4 Race Card 2:05 32RedSport.com Handicap 2:40 Jaguar Stakes 3:15 Markel Insurance Nassau Stakes 3:50 32Red Cup
