July's News You Can Use, Presented by Darley: The Glorious Goodwood Edition

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00:00He can't go back from the way at the start he said,

00:02all done at a million five last time.

00:14Big Dibs has won the British Cup.

00:17Froze a l'Avion qui va triompher nettement.

00:19Rosalien and Sean Levy are up in the guinea!

00:31This month's News You Can Use segment is presented by Dali.

00:35Dali's Knight of Thunder is currently the leading sire

00:38of three-year-olds in Europe this year

00:40with 45 individual winners.

00:43And he is the only stallion in Europe

00:45with the winners to run a strike rate in excess of 50%.

00:49That's unheard of.

00:50And his is 53%.

00:52He is head of champion sire Frankel

00:55and his own great sire Dubawi.

00:59Knight of Thunder's top two-year-olds this year

01:01are led by the one and only Fairy Godmother,

01:03winner of the Albany Stakes Royal Ascot.

01:05And they include the Aga Khan's

01:07impressive Currah Maiden winner, Hazdan.

01:10Keep an eye on three-year-old Ombudsman 2

01:13as he is from the Gosden Stable.

01:15He's unbeaten and with a time form rating of 106p.

01:20He is surely bound for group races soon.

01:23On this week's News You Can Use,

01:24we are proud to introduce Emma Berry,

01:27the Cornhole Champion of France,

01:30along with Sue Finlay.

01:31How you doing, Emma?

01:33Well, I've been practicing my cornhole

01:35and also revising my form for this week's King George

01:39on Sat-Dead Ascot.

01:40Yeah, big weekend coming up.

01:43Well, Emma, I think the question about the King George

01:45is everybody's going to be asking.

01:46Two Breeders' Cup Turf winners,

01:48Rebels Romance and Agustro Dan,

01:50the last two Breeders' Cup Turf winners

01:52will meet in this race.

01:54What's your take on that?

01:55Who's likely to be the favorite?

01:56Who do you think will win?

01:58Well, that's a great question.

02:00I mean, current favorite is Agustro Dan

02:02and we all know with him,

02:05he can be absolutely tremendous

02:07and sometimes quite terrible.

02:10They've only met once before these two

02:12and that was in Dubai when Rebels Romance won the Shima Classic

02:16and Agustro Dan was last.

02:17So, you know, it's round two now.

02:20It's by no means just a two horse race,

02:22but we saw what I like to think of as the real Agustro Dan

02:26at Royal Ascot when he won the Prince of Wales Estates,

02:29really nicely, you know, coming back to the form

02:32that we know he can produce, you know, on his good days.

02:36So I guess everyone just holds their breath

02:40going into this, hoping that he's going to,

02:43you know, pull out all the stops

02:44and do what he can do best.

02:46But, you know, Rebels Romance is six now.

02:49He's so consistent.

02:51He's traveled all over the world.

02:53He's, I think, won 13 of his 18 races

02:56or something like that.

02:57He's just, you know, a terrific performer

03:00all around the globe.

03:01It'd be great to see him get his group one in England,

03:04where he's trained, obviously,

03:05by Charlie Appleby most of the time,

03:07although he does spend a lot of time on airplanes.

03:11Well, Emma, also on the immediate horizon over there

03:14is Goodwood, this particular five day meeting

03:17known worldwide as Glorious Goodwood.

03:20What, give us what you're anticipating

03:24to be the highlights of Glorious Goodwood this year.

03:27Well, I mean, the Sussex Stakes

03:30is always really the week's highlight.

03:32That's on Wednesday.

03:33I'm just going to dip in quickly before that

03:35as a real confirmed lover of stayers.

03:39And we start with the Goodwood Cup

03:40on the Tuesday, next Tuesday.

03:42And that's always a terrific contest.

03:45I mean, if people think Epsom is a weird track,

03:47they should go and see Goodwood,

03:48because it's a real sort of helter-skelter,

03:50downs track and uphill, down dale all over the place.

03:54But we're going to see Kiprios hopefully come back.

03:58He won the Goodwood Cup two years ago,

04:00came back in June and won the Ascot Gold Cup

04:02for the second time.

04:03But in between, he's had a death defying injury

04:06and it's terrific to see him back around.

04:09But I guess really what we're all mostly looking forward to

04:13is a return of Rosalian,

04:15who is really building up into the outstanding

04:20three-year-old Colt, I think,

04:21certainly in the miling division in Europe this year.

04:26And he won the St. James's Palace

04:28in his last run at Royal Ascot.

04:29He's the Irish 2000 Guineas winner,

04:31and he was second in the 2000 Guineas,

04:33a new market to notable speech,

04:35who we hope will be back in action in the Sussex Stakes.

04:37He sort of flopped at Ascot.

04:40So we're going to see him back

04:42and a proper battle between the two Guineas winners,

04:46but also in the mix is Henry Longfellow

04:48from Ballet Doyle, trained by Edna Brown, of course.

04:51And he went really close to Rosalian last time at Ascot.

04:55And I think it's going to be an absolutely absorbing contest,

04:59not just for three-year-olds, of course,

05:00they're taking on older horses as well,

05:02but they will be the market leaders for sure.

05:06What's going on with the other King George

05:08a little bit later on the week?

05:10Because I'm really looking forward to seeing Big Evs.

05:12Can we expect to see Big Evs running?

05:14I think so.

05:15I believe so.

05:16He's certainly entered.

05:18We're a little way out from Goodwood as we're recording,

05:20but that seems to be the plan.

05:21Back to five furlongs for him,

05:26and we'll buck to a sort of sharper five furlongs,

05:29if you like.

05:30He will be taking on again Asfora, the Australian mare,

05:35who turned up at Royal Ascot

05:38and did what we've seen lots of Australians do in the past,

05:41won a Group One very nicely.

05:43And yeah, they'll be hopefully back in competition again.

05:48Big Evs, he's had such a glorious two-year-old year,

05:51culminating at the Breeders' Cup last year,

05:53and then he hasn't done much wrong so far.

05:55He won on his debut and was third at Ascot,

05:58so it'd be great to see him back.

05:59I'm particularly looking forward to him getting,

06:01I think, back to York for the Nunthock,

06:04but yeah, hopefully we'll see him at Goodwood first.

06:07Can I just ask Emma to quickly explain,

06:09for those of you that have never been,

06:11it's like Ascot and Royal Ascot.

06:14You've got Goodwood and glorious Goodwood.

06:16Can you explain to people what makes it glorious?

06:19I suppose it's just the feature summer meeting.

06:22It was always a real highlight, I suppose,

06:24of the English social scene through the summer.

06:28It's obviously, it's five days now,

06:32and because it's mid-summer, it should be glorious,

06:34but we'll know the English weather

06:36isn't always playing ball.

06:37So yeah, it's like the tag it always had

06:41for that particular,

06:42and it's the best racing of the year

06:44at Goodwood in this week.

06:46Well, Emma, I want to thank you

06:47for taking time out of your busy cornhole schedule

06:49to join us this morning on the TDN Writers' Room

06:52with news you can use.

06:54Some great things coming up in Europe,

06:55and we'll all be paying attention,

06:56and we'll catch up with you again in a couple of weeks.

06:59Great, look forward to seeing you

07:00and showing off my cornhole trophy.

07:04Thanks, Emma.

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