Home Of The Brave can be Glorious
IN the absence of the welltreated three-year-old filly Lumiere, the progressive Home Of The Brave can get punters collecting on day one at Glorious Goodwood.
Mark Johnston is taking the exciting Lumiere to Deauville for the Prix Rothschild next Sunday, avoiding the Lennox stakes, on Tuesday’s opening day.
Hugo Palmer’s Home of The Brave can carry the responsibility of the nap, after he has improved dramatically from three to four for the Newmarket trainer.
After winning his maiden at Newmarket last July at two, his five-race three-year-old campaign produced the fiverunner European Free Handicap.
The son of Starspangledbanner returned to action in April at Leicester, with an easy listed success over Coulsty and then a neck Group 3 victory over Convey at Haydock.
Galileo Gold has gone into many notebooks as the one to rely on at the meeting. Trainer Hugo Palmer has given the son of Paco Boy a five-week break.
He started the season a surprise, if ready, winner of the 2000 Guineas. But he then seemed not to have the same sparkle in the Irish equivalent.
Kevin Prendergast’s Awtaad led at the Curragh but when Frankie tried to take Galileo Gold alongside a furlong out, he just didn’t pick up in the tacky ground.
He was much more like the thing at Royal Ascot last month, when always holding the ferociously-backed The Gurkha, and he can be spot-on for Wednesday’s Sussex Stakes.
The return to a mile has been the making of Michael Bell’s Franklin D and he must have a massive chance in the Betfred Mile on Friday as the meeting’s best-backed horse.
This after running away with a Newmarket Class 2 handicap by six lengths from Hors De Combat just 12 days ago.