The Goodwood 2024 – What the jockeys said

Read what the jockeys had to say following the Group 1 Goodwood at Morphettville on Saturday.

1st – BENEDETTA (Jamie Kah) It was exactly where I wanted to be, everything just happened perfectly for us. She’s a horse with so much talent and she’s just had things not go her way and today it played out perfectly for her. She just got to the front a touch soon and she just waited with the blinkers on for the first time she couldn’t see anything around her, she was good once she could feel the horse coming to her again. I did think it would be easier than what it was in the end but she just couldn’t see that horse, but it worked out in the end.

2nd – STRETAN ANGEL (Daniel Stackhouse) Yeah, super run.

3rd – CLIMBING STAR (Lachlan Neindorf) Massive run, lobbed into a beautiful spot, she finished off well with her extra weight.

4th – I AM ME (Blake Shinn) She ran a good race, got annoyed a bit, stuck on.

5th – OSCAR’S FORTUNE (William Pike) He did well, he actually never got comfortable, never really flowed as well as he can, still stuck on really well.

6th – ARKANSAW KID (Billy Egan) He ran on super, very happy with him.

7th – WHAT YOU NEED (Craig Williams) Very pleased with his performance. He’s at his sixth career start, at Group One, he wasn’t beaten far. He was on the back of the eventual second horse, we weren’t able to stay on the back once they quickened up and he hasn’t been beaten far, he’s going to have a lot of fun. He’s a high quality horse.

8th – SGHIRRIPA (Craig Newitt) He ran terrific again, we anticipated to ride him a bit quieter today but just from the wide gate, just had to probably concede another two, three lengths more than I would’ve liked and he’s run on terrific.

9th – SKYBIRD (Beau Mertens) She was great, we ended up in a nice spot, she’s doing a lot right this campaign and just raced like a horse probably looking for seven furlongs now so she’s done a terrific job against good company.

10th – GRINZINGER PRINCE (Emily Finnegan) Rapt with him, in the company that he was in, he ran a gallant run.

11th – JOHNNY ROCKER (Rhys McLeod) I thought we had a nice enough run, presented well into the straight but just never ran on.

12th – AMELIA’S JEWEL (Damian Lane) She slipped behind out of the barriers so I ended up a long way back on the inside, not the place to be, that said she still travelled really well, just didn’t show her usual turn of foot late so yeah, disappointing overall, maybe something will come up after the run.

13th – RUBAMOS (Jacob Opperman) Ran a super race, they outsprinted him, he whacked away.

14th – EXTREMELY LUCKY (Jake Toeroek) I thought he was good. Just in the worst part of the track, and he probably just got a bit outsprinted.

15th – KARACASU (Jason Holder) Had our chance, just wasn’t good enough on the day unfortunately.