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The Goodwood

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TREKKING was the winner of The Goodwood.
TREKKING was the winner of The Goodwood. Picture: Racing and Sports

The Goodwood is a Group 1 race for open class horses conducted by the South Australian Jockey Club at Morphettville.

The Goodwood was first run in 1881 and was won by D.O.D.

The Goodwood is run over 1200m under Set Weights and Penalties conditions.

The girls won four on the trot from 2010 to 2013.

In the last 20 years only four winners haven't been trained in Victoria – Let Go Thommo, Takeover Target, Trekking and Savatoxl.

Editions over the last 30 odd years have been great for newcomers at the time to the G1 ranks for jockeys - M Pegus, B Park, A Spiteri, D Holland, M Carson, D Taggart, J Holder, T Pannell.

With the dog leg start like the Caulfield 1200m, barriers aren't as important.

In 2017 Lindsay Park got an ex-Perth horse Vega Magic to fly first up and win. He'd come back in the Spring and take out the Memsie Stakes at G1 before starting favourite in the inaugural running of The Everest where he was second.

A year on Santa Ana Lane, already a G1 winner, won the Goodwood then the Stradbroke then in the Spring was hard in the betting in the Everest. He backed it up by winning the VRC Sprint Classic at Flemington and then the TJ Smith at Randwick in the Autumn.

Trekking would continue that run of Everest horses in 2020 to have taken this out but he won it after running in the big one.

Savatoxl was a former Northern Territory trained horse who was considered a Darwin Cup horse less than two years ago but he'd win a G1 1200m sprint in 2021.

In 2023, the Goodwood was worth $502,250.

Notable winners of the Goodwood include Aurie's Star (1940), Romantic Dream (1977), Boardwalk Angel (1989), Euclase (1992), Bomber Bill (2003), Takeover Target (2009), Black Caviar (2012), Black Heart Bart (2016), Vega Magic (2017), Santa Ana Lane (2018) and Trekking (2020).

The 2023 Goodwood was won by Royal Merchant from Another Award and Zapateo.


Racing and Sports

Previous The Goodwood Winners

Date Horse Jockey WT Trainer BP
ROYAL MERCHANT (AUS) 3F
MERCHANT NAVY (AUS) - SEVENTHCHIC (AUS) SEVENTH REASON (AUS)
MICHAEL DEE 52.5 C MAHER & D EUSTACE 14
LOMBARDO (AUS) 5G
I AM INVINCIBLE (AUS) - SWINGING BABE (AUS) ENCOSTA DE LAGO (AUS)
ZAC SPAIN 55.5 M PRICE & M KENT 18
SAVATOXL (AUS) 5G
KUROSHIO (AUS) - LI'L MISS HAYLEY (NZ) SAVABEEL (AUS)
BAREND VORSTER 56.0 T & C MCEVOY 2
TREKKING (AUS) 5G
STREET CRY (IRE) - OUTDOOR (AUS) REDOUTE'S CHOICE (AUS)
J ALLEN 58.5 JAMES CUMMINGS 6
DESPATCH (AUS) 4G
WRITTEN TYCOON (AUS) - ZOCCOLETTA (AUS) FASLIYEV (USA)
TODD PANNELL 56.0 TONY MCEVOY 4
SANTA ANA LANE (AUS) 5G
LOPE DE VEGA (IRE) - FAST FLEET (AUS) FASTNET ROCK (AUS)
B MELHAM 58.5 ANTHONY FREEDMAN 9
VEGA MAGIC (AUS) 4G
LOPE DE VEGA (IRE) - ADMIRABLE (AUS) MAGIC ALBERT (AUS)
CRAIG WILLIAMS 56.5 D & B HAYES & T DABERNIG 6
BLACK HEART BART (AUS) 5G
BLACKFRIARS (AUS) - SISTER THERESA (AUS) AT TALAQ (USA)
B RAWILLER 57.0 DARREN WEIR 2
FLAMBERGE (AUS) 5G
EXCEED AND EXCEL (AUS) - RAZOR BLADE (AUS) BLAZING SWORD (AUS)
V DURIC 56.5 PETER G MOODY 16
SMOKIN' JOEY (AUS) 6G
ENCOSTA DE LAGO (AUS) - DALZING (AUS) BLAZING SWORD (AUS)
B MELHAM 56.0 WEZ HUNTER 11
PLATELET (AUS) 4M
STRATEGIC (AUS) - BLOODLINE (AUS) DRACULA (AUS)
B MELHAM 56.5 DARREN WEIR 4
BLACK CAVIAR (AUS) 5M
BEL ESPRIT (AUS) - HELSINGE (AUS) DESERT SUN (GB)
L NOLEN 57.0 PETER G MOODY 8
LONE ROCK (AUS) 3F
FASTNET ROCK (AUS) - PRIDE OF PINE (AUS) LION CAVERN (USA)
C LINDOP 52.0 R W SMERDON 4
VELOCITEA (NZ) 4M
VOLKSRAAD (GB) - CAT SHMEA (NZ) FELIX THE CAT (USA)
C NEWITT 54.0 MICK PRICE 1
TAKEOVER TARGET (AUS) 9G
CELTIC SWING (GB) - SHADY STREAM (AUS) ARCHREGENT (CAN)
J FORD 58.5 J A JANIAK 8
SHADOWAYS (AUS) 5G
ENCOSTA DE LAGO (AUS) - BE MY PRIDE (AUS) PRIDE OF PLACE (AUS)
M PEGUS 54.0 GWENDA JOHNSTONE 7
LET GO THOMMO (AUS) 6G
LARANTO (AUS) - MEMORY TRUE (AUS) IS IT TRUE (USA)
STEVEN KING 55.5 STEVEN J RYAN 15
PERFECTLY READY (AUS) 3C
MORE THAN READY (USA) - ELLE DUCCIO (AUS) DANEHILL (USA)
S BASTER 51.0 MICK PRICE 1
GLAMOUR PUSS (NZ) 4M
TALE OF THE CAT (USA) - ESCADA (NZ) CENTAINE (AUS)
STEVEN KING 52.5 DANNY O'BRIEN 7
SUPER ELEGANT (AUS) 6G
MISTER C (USA) - EVER ELEGANT (AUS) STEEL PULSE (GB)
G CHILDS 57.0 TONY VASIL 12
BOMBER BILL (AUS) 7G
AIR DE FRANCE (USA) - LADY SPECIAL (AUS) ALZAO (USA)
S W ARNOLD 55.5 R W SMERDON 9
ZIP ZIP ARAY (AUS) 3G
BELLOTTO (USA) - EASTERN CHARM (AUS) KINGS ISLAND (IRE)
B PARK 50.5 DAVID JOLLY 5
KEEPER (AUS) 3C
DANEHILL (USA) - NUWIRAH (USA) PLEASANT COLONY (USA)
B PREBBLE 55.0 MYLES PLUMB 13
MARSTIC (AUS) 4G
RUSTIC AMBER (IRE) - MARNEAT (AUS) MARSCAY (AUS)
A SPITERI 54.0 TONY VASIL 13

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