Lofty Strike boasts the best formlines heading into The Goodwood at Morphettville and will be hard to beat if the breaks go his way.
However you want to assess it – form, ratings, weights – Lofty Strike looks the winner of The Goodwood on paper.
His eye-catching Group 1 seconds to In Secret and Uncommon James in the Newmarket Handicap and Oakleigh Plate, respectively, earlier this campaign are superior to anything else his opponents lining up on Saturday have mustered and – should that Lofty Strike turn up – it’s very hard to see him being beaten.
But the beauty of racing is past performances count for nothing once the gates open.
