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Royal Ascot schedule, racecard and all the action after Frankie Dettori’s Gold Cup win. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us ...
Witch Hunter wins in the Buckingham Palace Stakes. 18:23, Ben Fleming. And here are the full results of the final race: 1) Witch Hunter - 50/1. 2) Croupier - 7/1
In the early part of its history it was also open to fillies. The race was renamed in memory of King Edward VII in 1926. The King Edward VII Stakes is currently held about two weeks after The Derby, and it usually features horses which were entered for that race. It is contested on the fourth day of the five-day Royal Ascot meeting.
The race was renamed the Norfolk Stakes in 1973. It now honours the 16th Duke of Norfolk, who served as HM's Representative at Ascot from 1945 to 1972. For a period the event held Group 3 status, and it was promoted to Group 2 level in 2006. The Norfolk Stakes is currently staged on day three of the five-day Royal Ascot meeting.
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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 Jersey Stakes is a Group 3 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old horses. It is run at Ascot over a distance of 7 furlongs (1,408 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in June. The event was established when a three-year cycle of races called the Triennial Stakes was discontinued after World War I.
The race was given its present name and switched to October in 2011. It became part of the newly created British Champions Day, and its purse was increased to £250,000. It now serves as the sprint-category final of the British Champions Series. The race was upgraded to Group 1 status from its 2015 running. [3]