Dorset Wins The Goffs Million For Ballydoyle

[Wandering Eyes]

In the week that Wootton Bassett was lost, one of his many TDN Rising Stars Dorset demonstrated the void that he will leave for the industry in Saturday's Goffs Million. Fourth in the Vincent O'Brien National Stakes earlier this month, the grey relative of Winter who started at 17-2 was sent to the front by apprentice Jack Cleary before halfway and stayed on to secure the prize by 1 1/4 lengths from the Ivan Furtado-trained 28-1 outsider August George (Night Of Thunder). Ballydoyle's 5-6 favourite Composing (Wootton Bassett) was half a length away in third.

“It's fantastic to win this race. Fair play to Goffs for putting up a pot like this, it's a major incentive to bring a good field and they got well supported today,” stable representative Chris Armstrong said. “His form has been in the book, in fairness, and he's just done a few things wrong. Today we took the hood off him, we thought with it on in the National Stakes the last day he just didn't show his true potential.”

“Jack gave him a lovely ride, he jumped, went forward and got a lovely position,” he added. “In fairness, when he asked him he really knuckled down. He's definitely a Group horse and you'd have to maybe give him a go at the Dewhurst now and see. He's a typical Wootton Bassett, he's all there, he's a strong traveller. Once Jack really asked him at the business end he knuckled down and went away at the finish.”

DORSET scoops the Goffs Million @curraghrace for @Ballydoyle & the @coolmorestud Partners

By the late Wootton Bassett, he sold #GoffsOrby by @TheCastlebridge to @A_C_Elliott pic.twitter.com/ENwjRIkpAs

— Goffs (@Goffs1866) September 27, 2025

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