THE opening day of the 2020 Qatar Goodwood Festival was a windy one, which will have affected the times, but not to a degree that suggests the ground was anything other than on the soft side of good (in an example to other tracks, Goodwood gave access to detailed meteorological information and marked up furlong poles despite customary rail movements).

The last four days of Goodwood and the last five days of Galway will be picked up in next week’s Time Will Tell.