Jim Goldie Recognised With Timeform Special Recognition Award

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Trainer Jim Goldie was awarded the Timeform Special Recognition Award at the Timeform Flat Awards. He won his first Group 1 with American Affair (Washington DC) in the King Charles III Stakes at Royal Ascot last June. Goldie also became the first Scottish-based trainer to break 100 winners in the calendar year.

“I think we got lucky with American Affair, because the Sunday Series [in 2024] was the making of him,” Goldie told Timeform's Dan Barger. “Although we didn't do it [win the bonus] we came close and it gave him plenty of time to mature between his races, and then he went on to win the Portland. I always felt after winning the King Charles III at Ascot it was job done.”

The likeable gelding is on the recovery trail, according to Goldie. A trip to America was also scuppered after his injury.

He said, “He's back on the gallop. Because of what he was and where he was, we took no chances – he came out of winning at Ascot and he wasn't particularly sore, but he was due his annual flu vaccination and after we gave him it, he went lame behind the next day. It might have been his immune system reacting to the vaccine, but we decided to bone scan him and while the results were unremarkable, there was a hotspot in his hind fetlock. So, we MRI-ed him and that told more of a story – there were changes going on in the bone.

“We gave him eight weeks and started to train him and then MRI-ed him again, and it was actually going the wrong way. We've got a programme to stress the bone and rebuild it, and hopefully when we MRI him again it's going the right way, and he comes back 100 percent.”

Goldie's 100th winner was Krissy (Calyx) at Wolverhampton after Christmas. Overall, the 70-year-old has saddled over 1,000 winners on the Flat and over jumps.

“It's a great team effort and a lot of horses have done brilliantly this year. I always spot where there's prize-money and then make a plan.”

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