Witness Stand wins easily at the Glorious Goodwood meeting (via X)
Cape Breeders
Paardeberg Stud’s Breeders’ Cup winning sire Expert Eye enjoyed success at Glorious Goodwood on Saturday when his son Witness Stand won the Whispering Angel Handicap.
Successful on his racecourse debut at Chester last summer, the Expert Eye gelding had failed to add to his tally since, but had run some sound races in defeat – notably filling the runner-up spot in the Group Three Horris Hill Stakes at Newmarket in November.
Back on a sound surface and with cheek pieces applied for the first time, Witness Stand showed his true colours on the Sussex Downs, readily accounting for Piz Nair by three lengths.
Clover said: “He’s been second in three of his last five starts coming into here, so he’s run some very good races behind good horses, and it all worked for him today. He wasn’t right at Chester last time – there were a few Newmarket horses a bit in and out of form, and he was clearly better than that run. He worked well last week and I thought he was a big price today.”
Expert Eye, whose progeny also include G3 Ire-Incentive, It Pays To Buy Irish Dick Poole Fillies’ Stakes winner Juniper Berries and Listed Chesham Stakes winner Snellen, was a superb racehorse. A group winner at both two and three, he crowned his career with a scintillating victory in the 2018 G1 Breeders’ Cup Mile.
The son of Acclamation stands his first season in South Africa in 2024.
