As well as training hard for their role as jockeys in this year’s Magnolia Cup the Qatar Goodwood Festival, models Rosie Tapner and Lady Alice Manners have been supporting Goodwood in demonstrating how best to dress to attend the five-day event, held each summer at the world’s most beautiful racecourse, nestled in the rolling South Downs.
In glorious sunshine, the pair embodied Goodwood’s relaxed style in dresses by Temperley, Roksanda, Preen by Thorton Bregazzi, Ermanno Scervino, Philosophy, Mulberry, Erdem, Self Portrait, Vilshenko, Dodo Bar Or and Zimmerman and shoes by Manolo Blahnik, Jimmy Choo and Malone Souliers against the backdrop of Goodwood House, Goodwood’s beautiful stable yard and bluebell woods.
There has been racing at Goodwood for over 200 years and Goodwood has always been known for its informal dress code. As King Edward VII once said of Qatar Goodwood Festival (affectionately known then and still as Glorious Goodwood), ‘it’s a garden party with racing tacked on’. Racegoers won’t find the width of their straps or length of their dresses under scrutiny when they arrive at Goodwood. Nor is Glorious famous for its elaborate hats. Instead the style is simple and elegant; Rosie and Alice wear long flowing dresses, natural hair and make-up and shoes they can wear all day long to ensure they leave feeling as free and beautiful as they did when they walked through the gates. The only stipulation is a jacket and tie for gentlemen; a linen suit and panama complete the look.
Rosie and Lady Alice will race on Ladies’ Day, August 2, in what will be the eighth Magnolia Cup. The race has raised over £1.2million for a number of charities since its inception. Run over five-and-a-half-furlongs down Goodwood’s straight in front of a capacity crowd of 25,000, the riders will need nerves of steel, especially as most of those taking part had never set foot in a racing yard before their training started.
For the first time this year, each rider will wear a bespoke jockey silk designed exclusively for the Magnolia Cup by Iranian/Swedish fashion designer and women’s rights activist Morvarid Sahafi. Morvarid’s designs for her brand, Morv London, reflect female empowerment and are inspired by the Suffragette movement, in fitting support of the values of the Magnolia Cup.
This year, the Magnolia Cup will support Cancer Research UK, the world’s leading cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research. Its pioneering work into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer has helped save millions of lives and has been at the heart of progress that has already seen survival in the UK double in the last 40 years. The charity is continuing to tackle women’s cancers on all fronts – helping to prevent and improve the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer and gynaecological cancers.
Fundraising takes place through race and horse sponsorship, as well as at the Regency Ball, a stunning Regency-themed banquet and party held at Goodwood House the evening after the Magnolia Cup.
This year’s inspiring riders will be:
Lady Alice Manners – Sunday Telegraph Columnist and Personal Shopper
Dr Amanda Cross – Cancer Researcher at Imperial College London, funded by Cancer Research UK
Camilla Hickish – Trainee Doctor and Cancer Survivor
Emily Baxendale – Founder and Creative Director, Emily-London milliners
Holly Thomson (Hollie-Ella) – Director & Editor of In The Country Magazine & Blog
Melissa Margolis – Assistant Program Director of PDP (Prostitution Diversion Program), Los Angeles, Ca.
Rosie Tapner – British Fashion Model and Student at Oxford Brookes University
Sarah Cook – Sport Secretary, Daily Mirror & Sunday Mirror
Shadi Halliwell – Chief Marketing Officer, Three
Lady Tatiana Mountbatten – Professional Dressage Rider and Tech Start-Up Founder
Vicki Smith – Director of Absolute Aesthetics/The Whiteley Clinic
Victoria Gray – Lifestyle Director, Sunday Express S Magazine
