‘Lazy’ Solow does enough to win Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood

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Perhaps it was the starting price of 2-5 or lingering disappointment that a “Duel on the Downs” with Gleneagles had failed to materialise, but Freddy Head almost seemed to be asked to make excuses for the winner after Solow’s half-length success in the Sussex Stakes. “He’s winning and it was not a fast-run race, so you can’t go away in a race like that,” Head said. “He is getting a bit lazy with age, too. It’s enough.”

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