The Confessor bids to enhance his enviable Goodwood record in the £20,000 Wright Joinery Company Handicap (3.10pm, 19 entries) over seven furlongs, the feature handicap on Thursday - day one of the three-day May Festival.

FONTWELL PARK bosses stage a new fixture this evening - one devoted to the true nature of National Hunt racing.

FONTWELL PARK bosses stage a new fixture this evening (Thursday) – one devoted to the true nature of National Hunt racing.

TWO successive days of racing at Fontwell Park begin with an eight-race card on Wednesday afternoon.

Fontwell Park will be raising money for the British Heart Foundation at its racing fixture next Wednesday (May 15) as part of the Mending Broken Hearts charity appeal.

Hayley Turner is a week into her new role as Goodwood ambassador - and she found the perfect way to promote the racecourse, and her own abilities on it, with a double at thr track’s second meeting of 2013.

A second seven-race card of the week is staged at Goodwood this afternoon (May 9).

Adam Waterworth hailed Goodwood’s season opener a success - and predicted the course’s racing would get even better as the month went on.

TOP female jockey Hayley Turner is the newly-appointed ambassador to Goodwood - and will be giving readers her thoughts on the card at every fixture this season.

Trainer Michael Appleby believes Bancnuanaheireann can bounce back to his best when he lines up under top-weight in the £15,000 32Red Handicap (2.30pm) over nine furlongs at Goodwood on Thursday.

Kieren Fallon won five races at Goodwood last year - he is already halfway to beating that total after a back-to-back 136-1 treble at the season opener on the Downs.

Flat racing is back at Goodwood after a break of more than six months as the world-famous course stages the first of 19 meetings in its 2013 calendar.

A double for James Banks was the highlight of Fontwell Park’s first evening meeting of 2013.

HAYLEY TURNER has signed up as ambassador to Goodwood racecourse for 2013 and she’ll be sharing her tips for each meeting with readers on this website.

Fontwell Park stages its first evening fixture of 2013 on Friday, with a seven-race card (5pm to 8pm) followed by live music from Abba Magic.

Goodwood Racecourse welcomes in the new season on Saturday, with a pair of Listed races for fillies and mares the highlights of a classy seven-race card.

NEW Goodwood ambassador Hayley Turner believes the track is the most testing one around.

Our season starts on Saturday and we’re raring to go, writes Goodwood racecourse MD Adam Waterworth.

PUNTERS will be hoping The Winner Takes It All at Fontwell tomorrow evening (Friday).

Goodwood stages its first fixture of the new flat season on Saturday - and jockey Darren Egan is keen to hit the ground running again.