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Ascot Racecourse is a dual-purpose British racecourse, located in Ascot, Berkshire, England, about 25 miles west of London. Ascot is used for thoroughbred horse racing, and it hosts 13 of Britain's 36 annual Flat Group 1 horse races and three Grade 1 Jumps races. The current racetrack's grandstand was completed in 2006.
Trainer Owner Time 1970 Welsh Pageant 4 Sandy Barclay Noel Murless: Jim Joel 1:42.08 1971 Brigadier Gerard: 3 Joe Mercer: Dick Hern: Jean Hislop 1:41.39 1972 Brigadier Gerard: 4 Joe Mercer: Dick Hern: Jean Hislop 1:39.96 1973 Jan Ekels 4 Jimmy Lindley: Guy Harwood: Anthony Bodie 1:47.20 1974 no race [a] 1975 Rose Bowl: 3 Willie Carson: Fulke ...
Ascot Racecourse Ascot, England (since 2011) Inaugurated: ... Leading owner (6 wins): ... Trainer Owner Time 1877 Springfield: 4
The race is now contested on the final day of the five-day Royal Ascot meeting. Prior to 2015 the race was also open to three-year-olds. It was restricted to four-year-olds and up when a new six furlong Group One race, the Commonwealth Cup , was created at the meeting for three-year-olds only in 2015.
The horse triumphed on Saturday at Ascot racecourse, the home of the famous royal meet, after one boy wrote to racing fan Queen Camilla asking if she could help change the horse’s fortunes.
The event was formed as the result of an amalgamation of two separate races at Ascot which were established in 1946 and 1948. [2] The first of these, named after King George VI , was a 2-mile contest for three-year-olds held in October.
According to a report by the British Horseracing Authority it generates £3.39 billion total direct and indirect expenditure in the British economy, of which £1.05 billion is from core racing industry expenditure, [2] and the major horse racing events such as Royal Ascot and Cheltenham Festival are important dates in the British and ...
The 1994 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes was a horse race held at Ascot Racecourse on Saturday 23 July 1994. It was the 44th running of the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes . The winner was Sheikh Mohammed 's King's Theatre , a three-year-old bay colt trained at Newmarket, Suffolk by Henry Cecil and ridden by Mick Kinane .