Gordon Brown – Race Reporter
Gordon has a wealth of experience of racing through his background in the written and broadcast media. His current principle role is reporting and supporting the scene in Scotland on Racing TV and relaying the latest news with Scottish angles.
Kalpana heads the betting for the British Stallion Studs EBF Glasgow Stakes, the race with a great history of producing Group 1 winners.
The £50,000 Listed contest, staged over 1m 3f, has also attracted Caviar Heights, who carries the same silks as previous scorers Postponed (2014) and Defoe (2017), a duo that both went on to bag success at the highest level.
Subjectivist, successful four years ago, made his Group 1 breakthrough in France three months later before landing the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot the following season.
Andrew Balding-trained Kalpana, one of two fillies in the line-up, arrives off the back of a close third in the Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes while the other female contender, Sir Mark Prescott’s Rouge Sellier, takes a big leap in class following her 15-length romp in a Wolverhampton novice event.
Top rated, on a BHA mark of 107, is Karl Burke-trained Caviar Heights, who won nicely in Listed company at Newmarket in May.
God’s Window, a well-beaten twelfth in the Derby, is equipped with cheekpieces for the first time by John and Thady Gosden.
The field is completed by Sea The Thunder, another class jumper after his recent victory in the Cumberland Plate, which is a handicap.
Course record-holder Jordan Electrics, now trained by Jim Goldie, heads the betting for the £34,000 G4 Claims Not At Fault Claims Made Easy Scottish Stewards’ Cup Handicap.
A seven-time winner at the venue, he set a new 6f track record – which still stands – two years ago and this season he has won five races, three at Hamilton Park and one apiece at Ayr and Carlisle.