Q Life Magazine Q Magazine December 2016 | Page 34
| Issue 1
Qatar Goodwood Festival
This summer over 100,000 people gathered for one of the highlights of the UK’s sporting and cultural calendar:
Qatar’s ‘Glorious Goodwood’ Festival.
S
et against the magnificent backdrop of the Sussex
countryside, this event saw the biggest names in
horse racing compete in almost 40 races across five
exciting days. Highlights of the week included the
Magnolia Cup, in which 12 female riders competed over
five and a half furlongs to a photo finish, with British
Eventing team rider Izzy Taylor beating TalkTalk CEO
Dido Harding in the final stretch, and the £1 million
Qatar Sussex Stakes, in which The Gurkha, ridden