Battaash showing blistering speed to win the King George Stakes at Goodwood for the second year running, by four-lengths, and staking his claim as being the world’s fastest racehorse and giving trainer Charlie Hills a welcome winner after a lean spell
Lightning Spear finally winning a Group 1 race at the sixteenth attempt when taking Goodwood’s Sussex Stakes, at the age of seven, to the clear delight of trainer David Simcock and jockey Oisin Murphy who was riding his sixth Group 1 winner
George Baker celebrating his 53rd birthday by training the 125-1 winner of Goodwood’s fillies maiden, the aptly named Feel Glorious, with Pat Cosgrove aboard
Eighteen-year-old jockey Jason Watson, who rode his first winner last May, landing the fiftieth victory of his brief career on Gifted Master in the Stewards Cup at Goodwood
Stradivarius looking at a stayers £1m bonus after winning the two-mile Goodwood Cup – the bonus is being offered by insurance broker Weatherbys Hamilton who will be pay out if the John Gosden trained horse wins the Lonsdale Cup at York later this month
Ryan Moore donating his £1,000 Glorious Goodwood top-rider prize to former farrier and family friend Steve Fisher who suffered a stroke four years ago and can only move his head and communicates with his eyes
Lil Rockerfeller having her first Flat race for over three years, after campaigning over hurdlers, and winning the Goodwood 2m4f handicap with jockey Sylvestre de Sousa taking the lead out in the country and coming home by 15 lengths
Jimmy Quinn, in his 52nd year, winning on Soto Sizzler giving him a ninth winner at the Goodwood fixture, his first for some time
Yorkshire trainer Nigel Tinkler winning two races with two runners for a double at Newmarket’s July Course, his first at the track
Top Japanese jockey Yuga Kawada, based with Roger Varian for the summer, winning his first British race at the fourth attempt at Redcar before experiencing the variety of British racecourses by riding at Epsom and Goodwood
Patrick Mullins becoming the first amateur rider for 27 years to win the Guinness Galway Handicap Hurdle on Sharjah
Jim Crowley winning five races from eight rides at Chelmsford – he’d previously ridden six winners in one day but this was his best haul at a single meeting
Bookmakers Unibet extending their sponsorship of Cheltenham’s Champion Hurdle for a further five-years until 2023
Paul George saddling a double at Lingfield in his first week as a trainer
Ruby Walsh returning to the saddle after breaking his leg at the Cheltenham Festival and winning his comeback ride at the Galway Festival
Ayr racecourse successfully racing for the first time on the repaired area of the track which last year caused the abandonment of the Ayr Gold Cup meeting because of drainage problems
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…and what hasn’t been so good
Charlie Appleby trained Walton Street being withdrawn from Goodwood’s Summer Handicap by the starter for having the wrong headgear, resulting in a 25p in the pound Rule 4 deduction
Goodwood experiencing a drop of over 2% in attendance compared to last year
The Marjorie Fife trained Classic Seniority being banned from racing for six months after refusing to enter the stalls for Saturday’s Sussex Stakes consolation race at Goodwood, the third time this year he’s played up at the start – he will have to undergo a stalls test before he can race again
Trainer David Dunne being fined €1,500 for leaving a runner in unacceptable conditions overnight at Galway when planned transportation failed to arrive – a steward’s report said that half a bale of shavings had not been spread on the floor, the stable appeared wet and a lot of dung was present
Donnacha O’Brien receiving a seven-day ban from the Galway stewards for trying to weigh out without the harness on his back protector – the jockey said it was an “oversight”
All 20 runners taking the wrong course on the first circuit of a hurdle race at Galway where they briefly joined the chase course, with some coming into contact with the rails due to the lack of space – on the second circuit they took the correct route and the result stood as the stewards decided nobody gained an unfair advantage
A power cut preventing Racing UK from showing Nottingham’s last race live on Thursday
Sean Levey facing another four weeks or more on the side-lines after the collar bone he broke at Salisbury last month might need surgery
The Racing Post, in a Q&A feature, asking veteran football commentator John Motson if he had a nickname
Despite the weather, the Racing Hub Daily Tip spending the past week out in the cold
