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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 Rewaayat (Good to Firm) 11 Jul 2020 1m 11.62s 6f 213y Bedouin's Story (Firm) 14 Jul 2018 1m 22.77s 1m Regal Reality (Good to Firm) 09 Aug 2020 1m 38.32s 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 Gumball (Good to Firm) 28 Apr 2019 3m 0.66s -
Trainer Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L R Hannon 199 16 £126,054 8.04% -£68.67 A M Balding 98 15 £102,739 15.31% -£27.14 C G Cox 66 12 £103,949 18.18% £0.23 M R Channon 64 12 £74,369 18.75% £7.88 B R Millman 86 9 £38,403 10.47% -£48.72 R M Beckett 74 9 £67,040 12.16% -£22.42 H Candy 36 9 £70,054 25% £10.26 J H M Gosden 35 8 £113,392 22.86% £0.47 R Varian 40 8 £68,350 20% -£6.76 W J Haggas 26 8 £71,141 30.77% -£1.38 -
Jockey Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L Oisin Murphy 62 20 £156,921 32.26% £27.65 Charles Bishop 80 12 £82,253 15% -£23.34 David Probert 76 11 £49,248 14.47% £17.68 Hector Crouch 51 10 £61,148 19.61% £18.26 Jason Watson 54 10 £58,480 18.52% £7.90 Jim Crowley 69 9 £53,276 13.04% -£39.42 Harry Bentley 64 9 £83,807 14.06% -£25.01 Jack Mitchell 48 9 £47,382 18.75% £2.63 Tom Marquand 81 8 £55,249 9.88% -£53.76 S De Sousa 36 8 £90,932 22.22% -£8.79
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