Glorious Goodwood, the famous Summer race meeting on the Sussex Downs begins tomorrow, with record crowds expected for the five day festival.

Royalty and stars of the stage, screen and TV, will be sampling some of the best flat racing in the horse racing calender. More than 100,000 racegoers are expected to attend over the five days.

There has been racing on the Duke of Richmond's estate near Chichester for more than 200 years.

Top jockeys such as Frankie Dettori and the country's leading race owners and trainers, will be competing for the prize money.

Already tickets for the famous Gordon Enclosure are being limited for the final day of racing on Saturday July 31.

Millions will be won and lost by punters at the meeting and in bets across the country.

This year Goodwood House will be open for racegoers to attend before the race meeting for the first time in several years, A sand sculptor will be creating images in grounds of the race course as an additional attraction.

Thursday will be Ladies Day when women of the county put on their finery for the occasion to watch the Lady O Goodwood Cup and the King George Stakes.

On Tuesday it will be the Summer Stakes, Wednesday is the richest race of the meeting Sussex Stakes, where the total prize fund is £300,000, and on Saurday, it will be the famous Stewards' Cup when as many as 30 horses charge down the hill in front of the famous white topped grandstand.