The 2025 Qatar Goodwood Festival ran for five days above Chichester, and Qirat won the Sussex Stakes at 150/1 with the 1/3 favourite beaten into fourth.
Glorious Goodwood, the summer meeting on the Sussex Downs, ran at Goodwood Racecourse in Chichester, West Sussex, from Tuesday 29 July to Saturday 2 August 2025.
The first public race meeting at Goodwood was held in 1802, and the nineteenth-century press gave the summer meeting its nickname. King Edward VII came almost every year and called it a garden party with racing tacked on. He relaxed the dress code, and the course has kept a holiday feel since.
The Markel Magnolia Cup is the meeting’s charity race, run over five and a half furlongs. By 2025 it had raised more than £2.7 million since its start in 2011.
On the Tuesday, Scandinavia won the Goodwood Cup for Aidan O’Brien, the first three-year-old to take the two-mile race since Stradivarius in 2017. On the Wednesday, Qirat, Juddmonte’s second string, won the Sussex Stakes at 150/1 under Richard Kingscote for Ralph Beckett. The 1/3 favourite Field Of Gold finished fourth.
Whirl took the Nassau Stakes by five lengths under Ryan Moore on the Thursday. On the Friday, Sophie Forsyth won the Magnolia Cup on Woodcote Girl. Two Tribes won the Stewards’ Cup on the Saturday.