Whilst most eyes this week are on Glorious Goodwood, we here at Ross Burdon Racing have had to wait until Saturday for our first runner of the week, with Northcliff making the long trip north to Yorkshire to run at Thirsk.
Ross Burdon Racing: Awesome August 2026 Awaits
After making a good start for the yard at Newmarket, when fourth in a decent sprint on the July course, Northcliff’s two subsequent runs for us have been disappointing. At Windsor he seemed to lack enough pace to get involved on a track that favours speed horse and at Ascot last time Northcliff, without his usual headgear, dropped out very tamely when asked for an effort.
Even though it’s a long trip to makeup to Thirsk, I was very keen to find a 0-65 for Cliff now he can drop into that grade and this race is much closer to home than the other options which were in Scotland or Wales! Silvestre de Sousa takes the ride for us, a jockey known for his prowess from the front, and we hope that he can get the best out of Northcliff on a track that may well suit.
Ross Burdon Racing: More Winners
Last week was another good week for the team, we had three runners and finished the week with a winner, second and a third. On Tuesday of last week Beauty Generation started the ball rolling with his third placed finish at Nottingham.
After being very slowly away from the stalls when he first came to us, we have done plenty of stalls practice with him and he is now jumping sharply, meaning we can ride him closer to the pace which suits him as he is such a big striding horse. Beauty Generation travelled superbly into the race under Jack Mitchell but didn’t quite find what he promised under pressure and ultimately finished third, beaten only half a length.
Ross Burdon Racing: Captive Beauty
After saddling Beauty Generation I then made the dash across the midlands to Wolverhampton for their evening meeting, where Captive Beauty made her handicap debut for us. Whilst still green through the early stages, Captive Beauty finished her race very strongly under David Probert and only went down narrowly by a nose despite meeting trouble in the final furlong, which probably cost her the race.
I was very happy with the run, on her first start for us Captive Beauty never really had chance to get into the race after being badly hampered coming out of the stalls and this showed us she’s much better than that run, which is what her homework had told us.
Thursday evening was pretty special. Waistcoat, a horse we have had since the middle of last summer, gave us a first winner on a ‘Group 1 track’ when winning with a bit of authority at Newbury. Waistcoat has had a very hit and miss year, winning in January at Chelmsford before disappointing at Ascot in May and then having some niggly setbacks at home meaning we’ve had to be very patient with him this summer.
Ross Burdon Racing: Wonderful Waistcoat
That patience was rewarded in spades on Thursday, with Waistcoat winning by two lengths having travelled superbly well throughout the race after Jack Mitchell got him settled in behind the favourite, Always Perfect. When Jack pulled Waistcoat to the outside two furlongs out the race was over, with Waistcoat storming to the front quickly and putting daylight between his rivals.
Next week looks pretty similar to this, in that the early part of the week will be without any runners, but the end of the week could prove to be busy. Gifts Differing will likely make her first start for the yard, either at Newmarket or Southwell and if the rain that looks likely to fall in the north arrives we could be sending runners to Haydock and Thirsk over the weekend with Director’s Cut looking to get back on track after his gelding operation and Hellcat and Just King High possibles to go to Thirsk.
Ross Burdon Racing: Glorious Goodwood 2026
The highlight of the week at Goodwood so far has surely got to be Bow Echo, who won the Sussex Stakes on Wednesday afternoon. It doesn’t seem to matter what gets thrown at Bow Echo, he just finds a way to win and the way he found another gear in the last furlong to run down Gstaad was unbelievable to watch.
Even though connections have said multiple times that he would be kept to a mile, the way he finishes his races I would love to see him over ten furlongs in the Juddmonte International next month, not that I would try and tell George Boughey how to train his horse, he has got everything right with him so far.
By Ross Burdon
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