Johnny Murtagh will be hoping to continue his successful partnership with Aidan O’Brien at the 2008 Glorious Goodwood Festival.

The Irish jockey has enjoyed tremendous success riding for the Coolmore Stud and their star trainer this season, riding winners at the 2,000 Guineas, Irish 2,000 Guineas, Royal Ascot, King George VI Stakes, Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the Irish Oaks.

The biggest races Murtagh will be targeting at the 2008 Glorious Goodwood Festival will be the Nassau Stakes, where he will be riding 1,000 Guineas winner Halfway to Heaven, and the Sussex Stakes where he will be riding Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes winner Herythenavigator.

Murtagh told At The Races: “”We have a very strong team going to Goodwood, Henry is probably the number one, but we have a nice bunch of horses and hopefully it will be a good week.”

Meanwhile Yeats is likely to miss out on a run in the 2008 Goodwood Cup and will be replaced by another Coolmore winner, Honolulu.

Murtagh has partnered O’Brien through a season which is likely to end with the Irish trainer breaking the record for most Group One race wins in a season.