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Sunday at Goodwood's 2026 August bank holiday festival

Picture special from Sunday's Goodwood action

Light of Dawn took the feature race honours as Goodwood staged the final day of three in its bank holiday weekend of action.

James Doyle rode the Karl-Burke trained 4/1 chance to victory in the Group 3 Virgin Bet Prestige Fillies' Stakes, holding off the challenge of Eabha (18/1), a length and a quarter back in second. Coaxed (8/1) was third.

Light of Dawn’s win was another Goodwood success for Wathnan Racing a month after the outfit enjoyed a win-laden Glorious week.

It completed a double for Burke, who had earlier seen Clifford Lee ride Inspired (4/1) to victory in the Virgin Bet Handicap.

Later in the afternoon there was double for jockey Oisin Murphy, who won the Virgin Bet Daily Extra Places Selling Stakes on board Itica for Andrew Balding then followed up in the Virgin Bet Supports Safe Gambling Handicap on A Major Payne (9/2) for Michael Bell.

Other Sunday winners were George Cross, Flash Harry and Maxident.

Day three on the Downs followed an enjoyable Friday night opener and a Saturday afternoon card which was hit by poor weather but still saw some good racing, headlined by Zavateri winning the £200,000 Celebration Mile.

See Sunday’s Goodwood pictures by Clive Bennett on this page and those linked – or all on the same page if you’re on the Observer app – and don’t miss the Chichester Observer on Thursday for a report and pictures from the three-day meeting.

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