Irish raider Duff contests the feature race at Goodwood on September 2

The 65,000 Group Three KBC Supreme Stakes (3.45pm), the feature race at Goodwood on Tuesday, September 2, has attracted a strong entry of 23, including sole Irish raider Duff.

Trained in Co Meath by Eddie Lynam, the five-year-old Spinning World gelding only made his seasonal debut on August 8, winning a Listed contest over a mile at Cork, but his handler believes that he has come on from the run.

"Duff won well at Cork the last day and this is his trip - seven furlongs is his best trip. He has improved from Cork and is in very good form. We're very happy with him and we'd be very hopeful of a big run," explained Lynam this morning.

"The plan is to run Duff in the KBC Supreme Stakes at Goodwood. If the word 'soft' comes out of the going description, he will definitely go. They were giving it as good to soft yesterday so hopefully it'll improve between now and then."

Duff, who was successful in the Listed City Of York Stakes just over 12 months ago before going down by a quarter of a length to Arabian Gleam in the Group Two Park Stakes at Doncaster, had a delayed start to his season after suffering a couple of minor setbacks but his trainer reports him to be over such problems.

"He's had more setbacks than a Royal marriage this horse! He always gets little problems. He just had a bit of bad luck at the start of the year and we had a setback with him.

"Then we had a wet summer so we were slow at getting him out, but he is well again and in good form."

Among the 22 other entrants in the seven-furlong contest is the Peter Chapple-Hyam-trained duo of Tariq, winner of the Group Two Betfair Cup over the course and distance in 2007 and fifth on his most recent start in the Group One BGC Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood, and Winker Watson, who finished a place ahead of his stablemate in the BGC Sussex Stakes.