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Racing Welfare Goodwood Virtual Preview Evening

The Racing Welfare Glorious Goodwood Preview Evening will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 23, Racing Welfare announced on Tuesday. Hosted by Racing TV’s Nick Luck, some of the panelists include Channel 4 Racing pundit Tanya Stevenson, Sporting Life journalist Matt Brocklebank, and Michael Shinners, Sky Bet/Sporting Life Head of Sports PR. Tickets for the virtual preview evening, which is supported by Sporting Life, are £10, with everyone who buys a ticked automatically entered into a prize draw for the chance to win four Richmond enclosure tickets for a day of their choosing during the 2021 Glorious Goodwood meeting, courtesy of Goodwood Racecourse. All revenue from ticket sales will go straight to Racing Welfare. For full details, go to www.racingwelfare.co.uk.

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Over Flat or Fences, Jonathan Sheppard Wins Them All

There are few certainties in life or in the sport of horse racing. But just as you can count on the changing of the seasons, you can count on Jonathan Sheppard sending out winners by the dozen, year after year, in tests of both pure speed and dexterity over jumps.

Maryland Jockey Club Sets Restriction on Jockey Travel

The Maryland Jockey Club has announced that beginning Friday, July 17, jockeys who enter another racetrack’s jockey quarters will not be permitted to ride in Maryland unless they self-quarantine for 14 days and obtain a negative COVID-19 test.

Jockeys outside the state of Maryland will not be allowed to work or gallop horses at Laurel Park or Pimlico Race Course. Jockeys located in Maryland who work or gallop horses outside the state will not be allowed to ride, gallop or work horses at Laurel or Pimlico unless they self-quarantine for 14 days and obtain a negative COVID-19 test.
Jockeys who have ridden outside Maryland this past week will have separate dressing rooms and quarters this weekend and will be monitored.

Racing at Laurel resumes Friday afternoon.

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Fancy Blue’s Half-Sister Debuts at Yarmouth

Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-pedigreed horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Wednesday’s Observations features a half-sister to French Classic winner Fancy Blue (Ire) (Deep Impact {Jpn}).

1.10 Great Yarmouth, Novice, £6,400, 2yo, 7f 3yT
MISS CHESS (IRE) (Zoffany {Ire}) was purchased for the Phoenix Ladies Syndicate for €220,000 at the Arqana Deauville August Sale as a relative of High Chaparral (Ire) with two half-siblings having made their mark in black-type company in the listed-winning and G1 Dewhurst S. third Smuggler’s Cove (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) and the useful stayer Casterton (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}). In the intervening period, another half-sister to the Ed Vaughan-trained January-foaled bay has sprung to prominence in Fancy Blue (Ire) (Deep Impact {Jpn}), now winner of the G1 Prix de Diane and runner-up in the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas.

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