Goodwood

The Goodwood is a Group 1 race for 3yo & upward horses and takes place annually in May at Morphettville racecourse in Adelaide, South Australia. The race is run over a distance of 1200 metres under set weights & penalty conditions and offers prizemoney of $500,000 for entrants. The 2011 Goodwood was won by Lone Rock from Crystal Lily with Pinwheel third.

Goodwood Day is the major race day of the Adelaide autumn racing carnival and the feature sprint is the richest race of the autumn in Adelaide. The Goodwood is held alongside the Gr3 SA Oaks, Gr3 The Jansz National Stakes & Gr3 RA Lee Stakes.

Goodwood info
Date:	Saturday 12th May 2012
Track:	Morphettville racecourse, Adelaide
Distance:	1200 metres
Race Type:	Open - Set Weights + Penalty
Status:	Group 1
Prizemoney:	$500,000
2011 Winner:	Lone Rock

The Goodwood is the premier sprint event of the Adelaide autumn racing carnival and always attracts a strong contingent of well above average gallopers. Up until 2007 the Goodwood was a handicap event before it was changed to a set weights & penalty race, which tends to favour the better performed horses engaged.

Races such as the Gr3 RN Irwin Stakes or Gr3 DC Mckay Stakes are good guides to this event and the Goodwood is a time honoured race in Adelaide. I Am Invincible (2nd in 2009) won the DC Mckay Stakes prior to finishing runner-up in this race.

Some more than handy gallopers have saluted in the Goodwood over the years and horses of the calibre of Takeover Target (2009), Super Elegant (2004), Bomber Bill (2003), Sword (1996), Euclase (1992) and Boardwalk Angel (1989) have all won this race.

Lone Rock (2011) ran third in a three-year-old fillies event over 1200m at Caulfield in Melbourne on her way to victory in this event and recent Goodwood winners have been Velocitea (2010) and Takeover Target (2009).

2011 Goodwood result
1. $31.00 Lone Rock 52.0 Ms C Lindop
2. $4.20 Crystal Lily 53.5 S Baster
3. $7.00 Pinwheel 55.0 M Zahra

Then followed
4. $13.00 Valentine Miss 53.5 C Brown
5. $31.00 Streetcar Magic 55.5 J Potter
6. $41.00 Conservatorium 52.5 Z Purton
7. $11.00 Response 56.5 D Dunn
8. $16.00 Miss Octopussy 52.0 Ms L Cropp
9. $7.00 Catapulted 56.5 D Oliver
10. $10.00 Ortensia 54.5 S King
11. $26.00 Diplomatic Force 54.0 C Robertson
12. $16.00 Arinos 54.0 D Yendall
13. $31.00 Stirling Grove 53.0 P Gatt
14. $14.00 Eagle Falls 58.0 S Arnold
15. $51.00 Dr Doute's 54.0 S Price
16. $19.00 Doubtful Jack 55.5 L Nolen
17. $10.00 Toorak Toff 56.5 C Newitt
18. $101.00 Undue 54.0 M Neilson

Margins: 1 3/4 len, long neck
Time: 1:09.07

Goodwood recent winners & placegetters
Year	Winner	2nd	3rd	Time
2011	Lone Rock	Crystal Lily	Pinwheel	1:09.0
2010	Velocitea	Catapulted	Very Discreet	1:09.0
2009	Takeover Target	I Am Invincible	Commanding Hope	1:10.7
2008	Shadoways	Cargo Cult	Diplomatic Force	1:09.3
2007	Let Go Thommo	Tesbury Jack	Royal Ida	1:09.3
2006	Perfectly Ready	Sassbee	Squillani	1:10.7
2005	Glamour Puss	Solar Antiquity	Shablec	1:09.1
2004	Super Elegant	Recurring	Danabaa	1:09.2
2003	Bomber Bill	Squillani	Debrief	1:09.4
2002	Zip Zip Aray	Libidinious	The Big Chill	1:11.1
2001	Keeper	Sudurka	Ateaters	1:10.4
2000	Marstic	Czar Hero	Strident	1:13.9
1999	French Clock	Any Rhythm	Loafer	1:10.8
1998	Spectrum	Scandinavia	Its My Sin	1:08.3
1997	Bellzevir	Another Excuse	Clang	1:10.3
1996	Sword	Lord Matthew	Scorn Bold	1:09.0
1995	Centisle	Khaptingly	Simple As That	1:10.3
1994	Ambala	Simonstad	Let Him Ride	1:09.4
1993	Jolly Old Mac	Colebrook	Pay The Kings	1:09.7
1992	Euclase	Dappers Hope	Cogitate	1:11.9
1991	Crush	Beau George	My Version	1:10.2
1990	Beau George	Crush	Dancers Choice	1:09.2
1989	Boardwalk Angel	Dieu D'Or	Beau George	1:12.4
1988	Cameronic	Daring Jon	Mr Cheap	1:10.0