Some competitive midweek racing this afternoon and we begin at Newcastle where the BetVictor Racing Club’s Bob (4.20) is taken to follow up his Doncaster win two weeks ago over a mile dropping back in trip.
Joe Fanning enjoyed an excellent week at Glorious Goodwood riding four winners for boss Mark Johnston and Pontefract bound this afternoon for four rides with Rocket Ship (3.40) his best chance of a winner in the feature mile and a half handicap.
The feature of the first day of Glorious Goodwood is the Group 2 Lennox Stakes a race that has been won five times by the classic generation in the last seven years.
David Brown’s Mind of Madness (5.25) was a ready winner of a warm Newmarket maiden and the Qatar Racing colt should take all the beating in the Novice Stakes that opens the card at Yarmouth.
The Punchestown Festival begins this afternoon and it is impossible to oppose the unbeaten Faugheen (4.20) in the first Grade 1 on the card despite the gelding dropping back in trip from his memorable success at Cheltenham in the Neptune Novices’ Hurdle over 2m 5f.