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Salisbury Course Guide
The Wiltshire course stage races throughout the summer including three Listed contests but the highlight of Salisbury’s season is the Group 3 Sovereign Stakes, traditionally staged in August.
Upgraded from Listed status in 2004, the David Elsworth-trained Norse Dancer landed the first Pattern race of his career in the year the one-mile contest was upgraded to Group Three status. Other recent winners include the very smart Captain Cat (2014) and Kodi Bear (2015).
Other feature races staged at Salisbury include the 12-furlong Listed Upavon Fillies’ Stakes and the Cathedral Stakes, which takes place annually on a Sunday meeting in mid-June. Run over six furlongs for three-year-olds and older, the race was won in 2007 by Sakhee’s Secret, who landed the Group 1 July Cup at Newmarket on his next start.
The final Listed event of the season is the Dick Poole Fillies’ Stakes which is restricted to two-year-olds and run over six furlongs.
Right handed. A loop course, and despite the run-in of seven furlongs (with a right-handed elbow after three furlongs), those ridden handily can gain an advantage as the gallop is often on the steady side around the sharp loop section. The straight course is uphill throughout the last half-mile and rather testing, especially for early season two-year-olds, so an ability to see out the trip thoroughly is important.
The ground runs away from you down towards the bottom loop at Salisbury and the bend is tighter than some people think. It doesn’t seem to ride as a smooth turn, either, with a short ‘straight’ before the long left-hander into the home straight. You definitely do not want to be wide on that bend and, when it’s wet, it can be a bit slippy. Poor positioning going into the loop is a big disadvantage, too, but, because Salisbury is a track that’s largely on the collar, you don’t get many hard-luck stories there.
View from the saddle: Jason Weaver
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Distance Horse (Going) Date Winning time 5f Edged Out (Good to Firm) 18 Jun 2017 59.18s 6f Eqtiraan (Good to Firm) 18 Jun 2017 1m 11.76s 6f 213y Bedouin's Story (Firm) 14 Jul 2018 1m 22.77s 1m Power of Darkness (Good to Firm) 27 Jun 2018 1m 38.8s 1m 1f 201y Burgonet (Good to Firm) 12 Jun 2018 1m 9.56s 1m 4f 5y Infrastructure (Good to Firm) 27 Jun 2018 2m 31.77s 1m 6f 44y Okool (Good to Firm) 27 Jun 2018 3m 0.98s -
Trainer Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L R Hannon 231 25 £216,522 10.82% -£61.30 A M Balding 109 22 £134,256 20.18% £3.93 R M Beckett 92 13 £80,490 14.13% -£34.17 B R Millman 107 11 £58,774 10.28% -£57.38 M R Channon 88 11 £75,590 12.5% -£5.90 C G Cox 71 10 £81,603 14.08% -£29.56 C Hills 53 9 £52,917 16.98% -£0.65 Sir Michael Stoute 41 8 £87,342 19.51% -£11.72 R Charlton 41 8 £73,656 19.51% -£17.33 R Varian 42 7 £54,510 16.67% -£3.52 -
Jockey Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L Oisin Murphy 107 19 £147,645 17.76% £4.63 Jim Crowley 106 17 £128,989 16.04% -£13.28 Tom Marquand 101 14 £123,879 13.86% £12.11 Andrea Atzeni 38 11 £89,407 28.95% £14.75 Charles Bishop 58 10 £56,345 17.24% -£11.62 David Probert 67 9 £38,424 13.43% -£23.30 Kieran Shoemark 55 8 £50,941 14.55% -£29.52 Rob Hornby 59 8 £36,678 13.56% £54.00 S M Levey 67 7 £34,156 10.45% -£39.60 R L Moore 39 7 £73,195 17.95% -£23.41
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