UK Horse Racing Tips

In the Royal Sussex Regiment Handicap (4.10) at Goodwood on Tuesday, Soldier In Action has failed to trouble the judge since winning a similar race on the Polytrack at Kempton last November, but is consequently 12lb lower in the weights and has run with a little more promise on his last two starts. His latest effort, when a never-nearer fifth of 16, beaten 7 lengths, behind Here And Now at York two weeks ago, looks better for the fact that neither the winner nor the third, Hochfeld, were beaten far by the 114-rated Duretto in the Chester Stakes on Saturday. The Soldier Of Fortune gelding has done all his winning on turf on good or softer going, so underfoot conditions at the West Sussex course should be to his liking, even if the ground does dry out a little in the interim.

Mark Johnston has a fair, if unspectacular, 17% strike rate with his older horses at Goodwood over the last five seasons, for a very healthy profit of 44 points, so hopefully Soldier In Action can give us a decent run for our money at rewarding odds. Of course, the Middleham trainer makes life difficult by also saddling Austrian School – who has been raised 4lb for being beaten at Musselburgh last time, but is reunited with winning jockey P.J. McDonald – but Solder In Action is just too well handicapped to ignore.

Selection: Goodwood 4.10 Soldier In Action to win 6/1

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