Sir Stirling Moss was one of the founding patrons of the Festival of Speed, and a regular competitor at the Revival.
The first ever horsebox was used from Goodwood to Doncaster for the 1836 St. Leger. Elis arrived fresh and easily won his owner a £12k bet.
The red & yellow of the Racecourse can be traced back hundreds of years, even captured in our stunning Stubbs paintings in the Goodwood Collection
Flying training began at Goodwood in 1940 when pilots were taught operational flying techniques in Hurricanes and Spitfires.
Our gin uses wild-grown botanicals sourced from the estate, and is distilled with mineral water naturally chalk-filtered through the South Downs.
G. Stubbs (1724–1806) created some of the animal portraiture masterpieces at Goodwood House, combining anatomical exactitude with expressive details
As the private clubhouse for all of the Estate’s sporting and social members, it offers personal service and a relaxed atmosphere
The dining room is host to an original painting from the Goodwood collection of the 6th Duke as a child.
Our gin uses wild-grown botanicals sourced from the estate, and is distilled with mineral water naturally chalk-filtered through the South Downs.
Festival of Speed is our longest-standing Motorsport event, starting in 1993 when it opened to 25,00 people. We were expecting 2000!
Legend of Goodwood's golden racing era and Le Mans winner Roy Salvadori once famously said "give me Goodwood on a summer's day and you can forget the rest".
For the last two years, 5,800 bales have been recylced into the biomass energy centre to be used for energy generation
Our replica of the famous motor show showcases the "cars of the future" in true Revival style
For safety reasons F1 cars can no longer do official timed runs so instead perform stunning demonstrations!
The first ever horsebox was used from Goodwood to Doncaster for the 1836 St. Leger. Elis arrived fresh and easily won his owner a £12k bet.
The first ever horsebox was used from Goodwood to Doncaster for the 1836 St. Leger. Elis arrived fresh and easily won his owner a £12k bet.
Whoa Simon! A horse so determined and headstrong, he not only won the 1883 Goodwood Cup by 20 lengths, but couldn't be stopped and carried on running over the top of Trundle hill
Leading women of business, sport, fashion and media, take part in one of the most exciting horseracing events in the world.
King Edward VII (who came almost every year) famously dubbed Glorious Goodwood “a garden party with racing tacked on”.
Leading women of business, sport, fashion and media, take part in one of the most exciting horseracing events in the world.
King Edward VII (who came almost every year) famously dubbed Glorious Goodwood “a garden party with racing tacked on”.
Flying training began at Goodwood in 1940 when pilots were taught operational flying techniques in Hurricanes and Spitfires.
The first ever round of golf played at Goodwood was in 1914 when the 6th Duke of Richmond opened the course on the Downs above Goodwood House.
The Gordon Tartan has been worn by the Dukes and Duchesses over the last 300 years.
The first ever round of golf played at Goodwood was in 1914 when the 6th Duke of Richmond opened the course on the Downs above Goodwood House.
The first ever round of golf played at Goodwood was in 1914 when the 6th Duke of Richmond opened the course on the Downs above Goodwood House.
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
Ray Hanna famously flew straight down Goodwood’s pit straight below the height of the grandstands at the first Revival in 1998
The iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
The Gordon Tartan has been worn by the Dukes and Duchesses over the last 300 years.
Ensure you take a little time out together to pause and take in the celebration of all the hard work you put in will be a treasured memory.
Ensure you take a little time out together to pause and take in the celebration of all the hard work you put in will be a treasured memory.
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
The first thing ever dropped at Goodwood was a cuddly elephant which landed in 1932 just as the 9th Duke of Richmonds passion for flying was taking off.
As the private clubhouse for all of the Estate’s sporting and social members, it offers personal service and a relaxed atmosphere
Our gin uses wild-grown botanicals sourced from the estate, and is distilled with mineral water naturally chalk-filtered through the South Downs.
We have been host to many incredible film crews using Goodwood as a backdrop for shows like Downton Abbey, Hollywood Blockbusters like Venom: let there be Carnage and the Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Our gin uses wild-grown botanicals sourced from the estate, and is distilled with mineral water naturally chalk-filtered through the South Downs.
A 20m woodland rue, from Halnaker to Lavant, was planted by our forestry teams & volunteers, featuring native species like oak, beech, & hornbeam
We have been host to many incredible film crews using Goodwood as a backdrop for shows like Downton Abbey, Hollywood Blockbusters like Venom: let there be Carnage and the Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Easy boy! The charismatic Farnham Flyer loved to celebrate every win with a pint of beer. His Boxer dog, Grogger, did too and had a tendancy to steal sips straight from the glass.
Inspired by the legendary racer, Masten Gregory, who famously leapt from the cockpit of his car before impact when approaching Woodcote Corner in 1959.
As we prepare to embark on another exciting season ahead we can only anticipate rising stars, returning heroes, milestones reached and records broken. But it is with certainty that we can reflect on some stunning performances past. Principal among them has to be Baaeed’s brilliant performance in last year’s Qatar Sussex Stakes.
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Shadwell’s son of Sea The Stars could conceivably have made it two Qatar Sussex Stakes, and even though he hadn’t even set foot on a racecourse when the entries for the for the 2021 renewal closed, it was a thought that more than crossed trainer William Haggas’ mind.
Having watched his stable star continue his ascendance by cruising to victory in the Group 3 Bonhams Thoroughbred Stakes on the penultimate day of the 2021 Qatar Goodwood Festival, his fourth win in four starts, Haggas told the Racing Post, “He wasn't in the Sussex because when it closed he hadn't run. Not many put an unraced horse in a Group 1 like that, but we toyed with the idea of supplementing, but when the rain came on Sunday night I was very glad we hadn't supplemented.” And he promptly entered him in Ascot’s Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.
More immediately, a step up in class was assured and together with the colt’s owner, Her Highness Sheikha Hissa bint Hamdan Al Maktoum, the trainer was plotting a stellar career path with the Group 1 Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville in August, Goodwood’s Group 2 Celebration Mile the following month and the Prix de Moulin de Longchamp, which he subsequently contested and won, in Baaeed’s notebook.
With his first Group 1 under his belt, Baaeed seemingly knew no bounds. His neck defeat of Palace Pier in the QEII, with Nassau Stakes heroine Lady Bowthorpe back in third, was his narrowest winning margin when Ascot played host to a thriller on QIPCO British Champions Day in October, but the winning distance belied a stunning performance under Jim Crowley.
The 2022 campaign picked up where the previous season left off with further Group 1 success in Newbury’s Al Shaqab Lockinge Stakes in May and his unbeaten record intact. Royal Ascot success followed with a second defeat of Godolphin’s Real World in the Queen Anne Stakes as we began to anticipate a welcome back to Goodwood.
He came, did what he had to do and left. Sitting comfortably sixth of seven at the half way stage before once again unleashing a blistering turn of foot three out, he stretched to record his ninth career victory with style befitting the occasion.
“Baaeed just does what he has to like his sire did. Just before the winning line he flicked his ears and completely shut down with me. It's a pleasure to be part of the journey. He's never going to be exuberant and win by ten lengths but the feeling I got from him between the three and the two (furlongs), no horse can give you that sort of feel. He's got everything. Good horses like that tick all the boxes. It will be really interesting when he goes a mile and a quarter next time and I'm really looking forward to it.”
Jim Crowley Jockey
And enjoy it he did. Having said that Baaeed is not the sort of horse to win by ten lengths, he saw off the globetrotting dual Group 1 winner and the previous year’s victor, Mishriff, by six and a half lengths in York’s Juddmonte International the following month to score a perfect ten.
His sole career defeat over the same trip in the QIPCO Champion Stakes at Ascot was handled philosophically and with the style and grace we have come to expect from William Haggas. “Baaeed got beat in a horserace but that doesn't take away from the fact that he is a high-class horse. It shows that people come racing to see the good ones and I think a lot of people wanted to see him win. A lot of people will be very disappointed, nobody more so than us, but that's the way it is,” he said.
He's right. People do come racing to see good ones and there is no better place to see them than here at Goodwood.
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