Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
The Champion Stakes was transferred to Ascot in 2011. It became part of a newly created fixture called British Champions Day. It now serves as the middle-distance final of the British Champions Series. With an increased prize fund of £1,300,000, the Champion Stakes was Britain's richest horse race in 2011.
The event was first held in 1999 at Goodwood Racecourse, but has been held at Ascot since 2000 (except in 2005, when Ascot was closed so the grandstand could be redeveloped). Unusually, for a horse racing event, it is a team competition, with jockeys invited to join the teams (two teams from 1999 to 2004; four teams from 2006) divided by their ...
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.
Ascot Racecourse Ascot, England: Inaugurated: 1834: Race type: Flat / Thoroughbred: Website: Ascot: ... Trainer Owner Time 1900 Bonarose Lester Reiff: Frederick ...
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 .