Goodwood Racecourse’s Saturday card – preview and tips for Conqueror Stakes and more

The action gets under way at 1.30pm with a five furlong handicap in class five and comes to a close at 5.05pm as a field of nine take on the class three handicap for three-year-olds.

Read below to discover the latest tips and a full preview of the Goodwood card on Saturday courtesy of Sporting Life.

The opening contest of the afternoon is a five-runner handicap in class five (1.30) and the Harry Eustace-trained Ancient Times looks the way to go, having made a great return to action after five months off when scoring at Doncaster a week ago and can shoulder a fair 3lb rise in the weights here for that success.

The feature race of day two of the season opener meetings is race two on Saturday with the Listed Conqueror Fillies’ Stakes and a top-prize of £34,026 heading the way of the victor. That could be Crimson Advocate for the John and Thady Gosden team, the Group 2 Queen Mary winner in 2023 and also won stateside at Gulfstream before coming back to Britain for his last run - second in a Listed race at Kempton on March 29 so looks the one to beat. The David Menuisier-trained Sirona rates the chief threat, a Listed winner at Newmarket last September and backed that up with a fine runner-up finish in a stronger contest in France at Saint-Cloud last time out.

Believitanducan is the selection in race three on the Goodwood card (2.40), a winner of a two-mile Beverley contest on his last start for previous connections and then for his new team with Alan King, improved on that when second in a Kempton handicap up in class and clear of the rest. Lingfield scorer Tides Of War is feared most in this one.

Race four on Saturday - a mile maiden stakes in class four (3.20) - looks a very good opportunity for Spirit Of Albion to get off the mark having only been beaten by a couple of handy-looking prospects in an Epsom novice 11 days ago and a repeat of that form should be enough to get the job done here, while race five (3.55) can head the way of the Ed Walker-trained Sir Lowry’s Pass, a course and distance winner in September and who shaped well when second at Newbury on handicap debut a month later.

A field of 11 will take on the mile handicap in class four for three-year-old’s at 4.33, the penultimate race on the card, and preference heads the way of Cavolo Nero for trainer James Ferguson, a debut winner in January at Southwell and second of nine at Newmarket when last seen. He has to shoulder a 2lb rise in the weights in Sussex but is still a major player.

Finally, the card comes to a close at 5.05 with a class three handicap for three-year-old’s. Consolidation could be the way to go in the finale, who cost a very hefty 300,000 Guineas at the 2024 Craven Breeze Up Sale at Newmarket and repaid that investment by immediately landing a Kempton novice at short odds straight after. He makes a handicap debut here for trainer Ralph Beckett off a very workable mark and is the one to beat.

Goodwood selections - Saturday

1.30 - Ancient Times

2.00 - Crimson Advocate

2.40 - Believeitanducan

3.20 - Spirit Of Albion

3.55 - Sir Lowry’s Pass

4.33 - Cavolo Nero

5.05 - Consolidation