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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 ...
Frankie Dettori is riding his final race at Royal Ascot on Knockbrex. Royal Ascot: 5:35pm - The Golden Gates Stakes. 17:21, Jamie Braidwood. 5:35pm - The Golden Gates Stakes. Knockbrex 4/1. Canute 4/1
The Ascot Hurdle is a Grade 2 National Hunt hurdle race in Great Britain which is open to horses aged four years or older. It is run at Ascot over a distance of about 2 miles and 3½ furlongs (2 miles, 3 furlongs and 58 yards, or 3,875 metres), and during its running there are ten hurdles to be jumped.
Frankie Dettori: Racing’s great showman produces Royal Ascot fairytale. Goodbye! Thursday 22 June 2023 18:39, Ben Fleming. Well, what a great day of racing that was at Royal Ascot.
In all, Ascot hosts 18 days of flat racing each year, totalling roughly 115 flat races each summer. Grass is cut to a regulation 4 inches exactly for flat racing. Ascot hosts 13 Group 1 Flat races each year including the Gold Cup, St James's Palace Stakes, King's Stand Stakes, Commonwealth Cup and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.
A hurdle race in Great Britain and Ireland is a National Hunt horse race where the horses jump over obstacles called hurdles or flights that are over three and a half feet high. They are typically made of a series of panels made of brush and are flexible. Hurdle races always have a minimum of eight hurdles and a minimum distance of two miles (3 ...
Over the years, her keen interest in the sport resulted in an impressive 24 wins at Royal Ascot and a significant return in prize money from her more than 400 horse racing victories in total.
The Hardwicke Stakes is now held on the final day of the five-day Royal Ascot meeting. The leading horses often return to the venue to compete in the following month's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. The first to win both races in the same year was Aureole in 1954, and the most recent was Harbinger in 2010.