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Glorious Goodwood reaches it’s conclusion this afternoon and there’s also some good quality supporting action from around the UK. Sam King returns with two selections including one at a juicy each-way price in the feature Stewards Cup.
It's easy to see why Orazio heads the market in the day five feature Coral Stewards' Cup (3.35) at Goodwood but he's just too short for me now at a general 7/2 and with pretty much every firm paying upwards of five places, there surely has to be some each-way value on the cards.
The eight-year-old Spanish Star is yet to win off a mark of 94 but he's certainly capable of running well off it and everything looks in favour in terms of track and conditions.
Patrick Chamings' runner is a remarkable five from seven over course and distance and has won three of his last four outings over the track and trip. The gelded son of Requinto is a six-time winner on soft ground and could prove feasibly drawn in stall seventeen.
The race wasn't run to suit when fourth of six at Ascot last time and he should be seen to much better effect back in this bigger field. He finished an excellent fifth in the Buckingham Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot on his penultimate start and I'm slightly surprised he's as big as 28/1 in places.
As previously mentioned, plenty of firms are paying multiple places and I could certainly see him running into the frame at a tasty each-way price.
Selection: Spanish Star – General 28/1
Our second selection also comes from Goodwood. I'd hazard a guess that whoever wins the British EBF 40th Anniversary Maiden Stakes at 4.45 will make up into a useful performer in time and it looks like a race well worth following.
Richard Hannon's newcomer Stratocracy holds a Group 2 entry and must be held in some regard, but experience could prove important here.
Individualism shaped with bundles of promise when runner-up on debut at Ayr and arguably would have gone closer if being held onto for longer having made a fairly taking move to lead a furlong from home. Inexperience probably cost Charlie Johnston's colt that day and he looked as though he'd learn plenty from that initial outing.
He's a half-brother to top stayers Subjectivist and Sir Ron Priestley but certainly has the pace for this trip on what he displayed at Ayr.
As is the case with pretty much all of these, the ground is an unknown but there's enough hope in his pedigree that he'll handle it and at a general 3/1 I'm more than happy to take the chance.
Selection: Individualism – General 3/1