Golden Mile Handicap Preview, Tips, Runners & Trends (Glorious Goodwood)

2025 Golden Mile Handicap Preview

The Golden Mile Handicap features on day four of the Glorious Goodwood festival, this festival takes place in late July or early August, this is a Class 2 race that is run over one mile and is open to runners who are aged three or older.

The race tends to attract big fields and is no stranger to a decent-priced winner going in, Boom Bust (22/1), Red Avenger (12/1) and Belgian Bill (20/1) are three who have scored at double-figure prices.

Golden Mile Handicap Information:

• Golden Mile Handicap Past Winners
• Golden Mile Handicap Trainer Statistics
• Golden Mile Handicap Jockey Statistics

We also have a dedicated Goodwood tips page that will cover this race as well as all of the other races on the day of the race, see which runners the OLBG racing tipsters are predicting to win this race and the others on the cards. You may also be interested in other preview blogs that we have packed full of information, head down to the Races Covered at Glorious Goodwood section for links to these.

How competitive is the Golden Mile Handicap market? When looking at the over-rounds for the last 20 renewals, the most competitive market was in 2020 when the race had an over-round of 118%. The race in 2023 was a race that was most in the bookie's favour with an over-round of 137%, whilst on average over the last 20 renewals of the Golden Mile Handicap, the over-round has been 128%, which means the bookie expects to pay out £100 for every £128 which is bet.

Golden Mile Handicap Trends:

• 2025 Golden Mile Handicap Trends
• Golden Mile Handicap Trend Analysis

Looking at the future form, is the winner worth following next time out? From the past 20 if you had followed the winner of the Golden Mile Handicap next time out then you would have backed a total of 2 winners. Backing all 18 runners who have been out since to win at SP next time out, would have returned an LSP of -9.17. Remember to bookmark the racing tips page to easily access the OLBG racing picks daily.

The runner that holds the record over the past 20 renewals for the slowest time in the race was set in the 2017 renewal when Master The World from David Elsworth under the guidance of Ryan Moore, won in a time of 1:41.34, whilst at the other end of the spectrum, Beat Le Bon, trained by Richard Hannon and ridden by Pat Dobbs set the quickest time of 1:35.28 in the 2019 renewal.

These are the top three quickest-run Golden Mile Handicap over the last 20 renewals:

1. Beat Le Bon (1:35.28) in 2019
2. Spectait (1:35.61) in 2006
3. Toimy Son (1:36.53) in 2024

Golden Mile Handicap Past Winners

Here are the Golden Mile Handicap past winners for the last 10 renewals. Each row details the year of the race, the horse which won along with the age & weight of the horse. Also detailed is the stall where the horse came from and the total number of runners in the race. The horse's trainer and the jockey at the time of winning the Golden Mile Handicap are also displayed, along with the starting price at which the horse was sent off.

Where have the winning runners come from?

Here are the countries where the winning trainers of the Golden Mile Handicap have been based:

• GB: 20 winners with an additional 59 placings from 360 runners
• IRE: 0 winners with an additional 0 placings from 1 runner

Golden Mile Handicap Trainer Statistics

There are two leading trainers in the Golden Mile Handicap over the last 20 renewals with both David O'Meara and Roger Charlton who have both won the race two times. David O'Meara winners have been with Prompting (2020) and Orbaan (2022). Roger Charlton's winners have been with Third Set (2007) and Fifteen Love (2008). There is one trainer who has not had the best of times in the Golden Mile Handicap, Richard Fahey has sent a total of 17 runners to the race without recording any wins.

Here are some of the top Golden Mile Handicap trainer statistics over the last 20 renewals (R = Runners, W = Winners, P = Places including winners, Win LSP is based on 1pt Win and EW LSP is based on 0.5pt Win & 0.5pt Place):

Golden Mile Handicap Jockey Statistics

The leading jockey in the Golden Mile Handicap over the last 20 renewals is Ryan Moore who has won the race three times with those three winners coming from Franklin D (2016), Master The World (2017) and Seniority (2018). Multiple jockeys have not had the best of times over the last 20 renewals in the Golden Mile Handicap, Daniel Tudhope (0-11), Joe Fanning (0-11), Jamie Spencer (0-10) and Frankie Dettori (0-10) have all failed to produce a single winner despite sending multiple rides to the race.

Here are some of the top Golden Mile Handicap jockey statistics over the last 20 renewals (R = Runners, W = Winners, P = Places including winners, Win LSP is based on 1pt Win and EW LSP is based on 0.5pt Win & 0.5pt Place):

Golden Mile Trend Handicap Analysis

The trend factor which had produced 10+ winners and shows the best LSP, an LSP of +35.50 is when runners finished in 2nd on debut. The worst performing factor that has failed to produce a single winner is when runners had 1 career place in the class, when backing these the trend shows a record of 0-64.

Here are the most recent winning draws along with the further placings in brackets:

• 2024: Winner in 21 (20,13,8) [16 Runners]
• 2023: Winner in 18 (5,8,15) [20 Runners]
• 2022: Winner in 2 (1,15,7) [18 Runners]
• 2021: Winner in 5 (8,9,2) [18 Runners]
• 2020: Winner in 2 (9,11) [14 Runners]

The course which has produced the most winners of the Golden Mile Handicap is Newmarket (July), there has been a total number of 7 winners of this race who ran at Newmarket (July) last time out. The next best course which has produced the second most winners is Ascot, there has been a total number of 4 winners of this race who ran at Ascot last time out.

The race is open to both sexes with the Male runners having produced a total of 20 winners from a total of 352 runners whilst the Female runners have produced 0 winners from a total of 9 runners.

Looking over the past renewals, these are the stallions whose offspring have produced multiple winners of the Golden Mile Handicap:

• Dubawi (2 Wins)
• Exceed And Excel (2 Wins)

These are the stallions whose offspring have not produced a winner of the Golden Mile Handicap despite multiple attempts:

• Dark Angel (0 Wins from 10 runners)
• Oasis Dream (0 Wins from 8 runners)
• Pivotal (0 Wins from 8 runners)
• Iffraaj (0 Wins from 7 runners)
• Danehill Dancer (0 Wins from 6 runners)

Looking at the winning odds over the last 20 renewals, the biggest-priced winner was Laa Rayb in 2009, winning for Mark Johnston at odds of 25/1 under the guidance of Jimmy Fortune. Looking at the runners at the head of the market over the last 20 renewals there have been 4 winning favourites in the race. Ahead of the 2025 Golden Mile Handicap why not head over to the best racing tipster page to see what the tipsters are backing today?

Races Covered at Glorious Goodwood

Here is the schedule for the five-day Glorious Goodwood festival for races which we cover with blogs, each race will be linked to the race blog and detail last year's winner in the table below.

Tuesday at Glorious Goodwood

Part of the British Champion Series, the Goodwood Cup is the highlight on the opening day, a marathon over two miles where stamina is key.

Wednesday at Glorious Goodwood

Run over a mile, the Sussex Stakes is the main race on the second day, this Group 1 is also part of the British Champion Series.

Thursday at Glorious Goodwood

The Group 1 Nassau Stakes is the highlight on Thursday, contested over 1m2f and restricted to only fillies and mares, the race is part of the British Champion Series.

Friday at Glorious Goodwood

Friday features a couple of decent handicaps with the Goodwood Handicap a stamina-testing race and the Golden Mile which is a heritage handicap. The highlight of the day is the King George Stakes, a sprint run over five furlongs.

Saturday at Glorious Goodwood

Saturday is the day of one of the biggest handicaps on the flat, the Stewards Cup, 20+ runners over six furlongs compete in this heritage handicap.