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BEAT ALL SET FOR GOODWOOD

Beat All, withdrawn under controversial circumstances at Chester earlier this month, is set to reappear in the Badger Brewery Festival Stakes at Goodwood on Thursday.

Last season's Vodafone Derby third was due to return in the Huxley Stakes on the Roodeye but down at the start his jockey Kieren Fallon asked the vet to take a look at him, fearing the colt was unsound.

After Fallon trotted Beat All up and down, the vet agreed and the odds-on favourite was withdrawn by the starter.

Almost as soon as the announcement had been made Beat All was found to be sound and his trainer Sir Michael Stoute tried in vain to get the horse reinstated.

Joe Mercer, racing manager to Beat All's owner Saeed Suhail, today said: "He's fine and runs at Goodwood on Thursday.

"There was never anything wrong with him at Chester. He must have just tapped himself - a funny-bone or something - on the way to post.

"He's not the best of trotters Michael tells me.

"He was a bit tied-up after the Irish Derby but there's not been a problem with him since."

Thursday's race is over 10 furlongs but Beat All will be stepped up in trip for his subsequent starts.

"If all goes well at Goodwood he'll go for the Coronation Cup (Epsom on June 9th)," Mercer said. "Although he's entered in the Eclipse I would think he'd go for the top mile-and-a-half races.

"He was a bit unlucky when he was third in the Derby. He raced round the outside before finishing well."