Glorious Goodwood concludes with Stewards’ Cup and chalice stakes

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Updates from the final day at Glorious Goodwood Asfoora retirement on hold. Plus Saturday’s tipping Newmarket 1.33, Chalice Stakes, Listed, 1m 4f A relatively minor event for female horses that is open to all ages from three-year-olds up, but the older horses have had a very thin time of it in recent years with just a single four-year-old winner – Divina Grace in 2024 – in the last seven runnings. That’s quite a stark statistic given the overall representation of the Classic generation, and Charlie Appleby’s Romantic Symphony is a warm favourite to extend the sequence. She brings a high-class pedigree to the table – she is a sister to a three-time Group One-winning filly in Wild Illusion and also to Yibir, the 2021 Breeders’ Cup Turf winner – and while she was below-par in the Lingfield Oaks Trial in May, her run into second in a Listed race at Longchamp last time was a major step forward. Ralph Beckett’s Revoir, who has a few pounds in hand of Romantic Symphony on the bare ratings, is the likeliest contender from the older ranks, but the Godolphin runner, with man-of-the-moment Billy Loughnane in the saddle, looks by far the likeliest winner. Continue reading...