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Greatest Sussex Stakes winners of all time
Glorious Goodwood is upon us! We have a brilliant five days of top-quality racing ahead of us to get stuck into, one of the races to look out for is the Group One Sussex Stakes.
The Sussex Stakes is one of the most anticipated races of the flat calendar, where we see the three-year-olds step out of the early season Classics to try themselves against their elders over the mile trip.
Our list looks at the best winners of the Sussex Stakes in history.
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Frankel – 2011, 2012
Where better a place to start than with the greatest, Frankel. Unbeaten in 14 starts, he is the only horse to have won the Sussex Stakes twice. The 10-time Group One winner is undoubtedly the most dominant flat horse of all time, his record speaks for itself not just in terms of results, but the manner of victory on each occasion. He took his first win in the race in 2011, sent off an 8/13 favourite, he led the pack of four before being shaken up two furlongs out, displaying that devastating turn of foot, making all to beat the previous winner Canford Cliffs by five lengths.
In 2012, he arrived in the Sussex countryside with a further three Group One’s under his belt, and was sent off the 1/20 favourite, the shortest SP we’ve seen in the race by some margin. The outcome was the same, this time taking a lead, before cantering past and being pushed out to win by a widening six lengths to record his 12th consecutive victory.
Kingman – 2014
Our second Juddmonte inmate on the list is the John Gosden-trained Kingman. He won the 2014 version of the Sussex Stakes getting the better of Toronado, that year’s Royal Ascot Queen Anne winner, in what was a highly prolific year for the then three-year-old. His win at Goodwood was his fourth Group One in a row before he headed over to France to take the Group One Jacques du Marois in Deauville.
Solow – 2015
The only French trained horse on our list, Solow, is well worth being considered amongst the best to win the Sussex.
A 13-time winner, he progressed with his racing, winning his first Group One race at five-years-old, in the Dubai Turf in Meydan. What followed was four consecutive Group One victories across the UK and France, including the Sussex Stakes.
Baaeed – 2022
The aforementioned Frankel can rarely be compared to seriously, but the run of Baaeed from 2021 to 2022 drew what were, at the time, fair comparisons to the star.
The winner of the 2022 Sussex Stakes, Baaeed made it nine in a row when scooting clear at Goodwood. A six-time Group One winner, he was dominant over the mile and looked set to retire unbeaten as one of the greatest of all time, before being beaten in the Ascot Champion Stakes at odds of 1/4 to end his run of eleven out of eleven wins. Ultimately, history won’t look as favourably on him as others but, without a doubt, he is one of the best Sussex Stakes winners of all time.
