Delighted to get my subscribers a winner in the 1:50 at Goodwood.  Mirage Dancer , who I advised at 7/4 was heavily backed, I think he was around 5/4 returned.  He won very well, a winner at this track earlier in the year, (advised that day to back) the son of Frankel is progressing with racing, typical big colt, who has not been over raced by his trainer Sir Micheal Stoute.

The rest of today’s card’s look pretty tough.  I do like a horse tonight at Newmarket , just assessing his rivals, currently dry at the July racecourse, I see it has been raining in the north.  I spoke to my brother in law earlier, he was heading north with my sister for a week away from Newmarket.  He told me he is busy riding out every day, he was a head lad for many years for James Toller, up to when he retired from training about 3 years ago.  He was just saying how difficult it must be for someone in charge of the yard ( Head Lad) is these days, staff in Newmarket is in decline, I could see that when I was working for Godolphin, although we had very good staff at Saeed Bin Suroor’s yard. A large number of old school lads/lasses got out of the racing industry about 8 years ago, and have not come back ! What the answer is to attract school leavers to work in racing is , I do not know ! I think it is going to get worse,  before it maybe can get better.