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Field Of Gold set for Sussex clash

Field Of Gold is set to represent the best of the three-year-olds in Wednesday’s Group 1 Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood, where the generations will clash for the first time this year in the mile division.

Field Of Gold.
Field Of Gold. Picture: Racing and Sports UK

Seven have been declared for the race and the John and Thady Gosden-trained grey represents a strong favourite, having recorded back-to-back Group 1 victories in the Irish 2000 Guineas and the St James's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot. With Juddmonte's retained rider Colin Keane suspended for a whip violation, William Buick is set to take the ride on Field Of Gold for the first time.

He will be joined by the best of the older horses, the Richard Hannon-trained Rosallion who suffered a shock defeat to the re-opposing Docklands in the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot. Harry Eustace's stable star produced a career-best performance to take the race, but his record at Ascot is outstanding and he will need to prove he can replicate the form elsewhere.

Aidan O'Brien is represented by Henri Matisse, winner of the Poule d'Essai des Poulains at Longchamp, who will need to improve again to reverse the form of the St James's Palace Stakes, where he finished second behind Field Of Gold.

International interest is provided by Carl Spackler, sixth in the Queen Anne Stakes on his stable debut for Australian Ciaron Maher. A Grade 1 winner in America, the physically impressive chestnut will be hoping to progress from his UK debut.

The leading five will be joined by Ralph Beckett's Qirat and the Aidan O'Brien-trained Serengeti.


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