Glorious Goodwood Tuesday Tips 2023: Raceolly's Best Bets For Day 1 Of Glorious Goodwood

Our resident tipster Raceolly is here all week with his Glorious Goodwood tips, and here are his best Glorious Goodwood Tuesday Tips for day one of the Flat racing showpiece on the south coast. Check out all his best bets here with reasoning for his selections...

DESIGNER has been fancied to strike in good races this season, but for one reason or another it hasn’t clicked. Last twice it might have been the ground was a little fast and the return to ground with soft in the description here is what is needed. He’s taken a chunky 3lb drop after the last run at Ayr and although still 5lb above the last winning mark he did finish a good 2nd off 5lb higher at the end of last season at Doncaster. Has plenty of form in big field handicaps and should get the race run to suit. It’s worth keeping an eye on treble seeking Lord Riddiford also who’s once again got his mark down for a race he targets year after year.

Richard Hannon has won this three times in the last 12 years and with five places, four of which finished 2nd. He continuously has quality two-year-olds year after year and usually runs a decent one in this. A LA NOCHE was bought for 300,000 gns as a foal and breeding would suggest that soft ground would be no issue unlike a few others. Lope De Vega two-year-olds have a 16% win rate and half brother to plenty of winners his half brother winning over this trip,

SPANISH PHOENIX is hugely overpriced in this. He very easily won a small field maiden on soft ground at Leicester before running a huge race in the Coventry Stakes doing all his best work later on after finding himself further back than ideal early, looked desperately in need of the extra furlong that day but when given that in the Superlative Group 2 last time he went off hard from the front and for sure done to much to soon. If settling better here there will be a very strong pace to race off and with excuses last time he’s overpriced on that Coventry effort for a yard who has a 22% win rate with their two-year-olds here over the last five years.

Sticking with the Andrew Balding yard who run HOLGUIN in this and hope to go for a quick big priced double. Holguin enhanced his good record on softer ground last time by winning at Chester and before that had ran a huge race for us in the Jersey Stakes from a bad draw. The yard won this last year with a three-year-olld and have a 22% win rate here with their three-year-olds and 40% this season.