Our ambassador previews a busy Saturday of clashes which features the Listed August Stakes at Windsor – live on Sky Sports Racing from 4.30pm. The feature race on Sky Sports Racing on Saturday evening is the Listed Weatherbys August Stakes (6.30) which can go to my husband Tom Marquand and trainer William Haggas. They combine with the reliable Tenability who has winning form at the track and won't mind any rain, as he proved at Ascot last autumn when he chased home Al Qareem in the Cumberland Lodge.
Tenability has been kept fresh since beating popular stable companion Hamish at Goodwood in June and then finishing third in a Group Three in Deauville over further than this trip. He brings more compelling recent form to the race than the intriguing Silawi, who has been disappointing given what he achieved in winning the Group One International in Canada last October and then chasing home Opera Ballo in the Jebel Hatta in Dubai in January. The most prestigious race of the day on Saturday is the Group Two Virgin Bet Celebration Mile Stakes (3.10) at Goodwood and I won't be forsaking the likeable Zavateri, who has a great chance to gain his first win of the year.
Eve Johnson Houghton's three-year-old, who is eased in grade, ran respectably behind Bow Echo in the Sussex Stakes at this track and wasn't disgraced in Notable Speech's Group One at York last weekend. This is a quick turnaround for a colt who has winning Pattern form at this track in the Vintage Stakes but I take him to win an ordinary renewal at the probable expense of Qirat, last year's shock Sussex Stakes winner who will be a danger to all if he gets loose on the front end. Never miss a story with all the latest racing news, interviews and features on your phone.
Find out more George Scott must have been tempted to pitch Forty Years On into Stakes company so it's interesting he sets out to exploit an appealing mark in the Virgin Bet Every Saturday Money Back Handicap (2.00) at Goodwood. This progressive filly, who has been raised 8lb to a rating of 96, made it four from five with a winning reappearance in easy ground at Newbury in early June so any further rain on the South Coast will be a positive. She's up against Andrew Balding's Ghost Mode, who won at the Goodwood Festival despite hanging badly.
He's up four-pound for that and looks her biggest threat, though The Fingal Raven has the form in the book to go well at a much bigger price. William Haggas's Too Darn Hot gelding High Degree looks capable of giving his rivals weight in the Virgin Bet A Good Bet Handicap (2.35) at Goodwood. Cieren Fallon's mount was galvanised by first-time cheekpieces at Pontefract a couple of weeks ago and remains lightly enough raced to cope with a four-pound rise.
I do think Gary and Josh Moore's Too Soon looks well handicapped despite winning at Epsom back in early summer and he can give young Warren Fentiman a good ride if he's fully wound up for this return from a three-month break. See the latest horse racing news, interviews and features from Sky Sports Racing I love to see Welsh trainer Chris Mason's All Ways Glamorous run well, just as he did in the Shergar Cup, but he may have to settle for a share of the minor money in the Virgin Bet Supports Safe Gambling Handicap (4.55) at Goodwood. My preference is for David O'Meara's Toca Madera who ran a big race in defeat at York last week before struggling to make an impact in softer ground there four days later.
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