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David Griffiths is aiming his stable stars Take Cover and Duke Of Firenze at the two feature sprints at Glorious Goodwood.

Take Cover won the Qatar King George Stakes in 2014 and will be aiming to join Lochsong as a dual winner of the Group Two.

"The plan is to run Take Cover in the King George Stakes and hopefully he can go one place better than last year," said Griffiths.

"The ground went against him at Ascot - he doesn't like soft ground - and he wasn't drawn brilliantly in stall one. I thought the field would come over to us, being the pace in the race, but unfortunately they stayed in the middle so we had to race on our own.

"We beat Cotai Glory, who was second in the King's Stand, convincingly at Haydock. It was only a Listed race, but there were still some smart horses in the race and he did it really nicely.

"On the book, he has beaten Muthmir at Lingfield earlier this year and Marsha, who won the City Wall Stakes at York on Saturday, at Dundalk last year.

"He is really well at the moment and, on quick ground at a track that he absolutely loves, we would be hopeful of a good run."

Duke Of Firenze is to be aimed at the Qatar Stewards' Cup after a string of decent efforts this season.

"He held his form really well after winning at York, in the two races at Musselburgh and Epsom," said Griffiths.

"We then ran him in a Group Three at Sandown, when the ground was bottomless, and then I probably shouldn't have run at Ascot last time out. He probably needed a bit of a break, so we will freshen him up this week and then go to Goodwood.

"I think he will get six furlongs at a quick course like Goodwood, especially if it's fast ground. Hopefully, we can get him back to a similar level of form as he showed at York earlier this season."