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Royal Ascot: 2:30pm - The Chesham Stakes. 14:34, Jamie Braidwood. Snellen (12/1) just edges ahead of Pearls And Rubies to get the opening win of the day in the Chesham Stakes! Pearls and Rubies ...
Royal Ascot 2023 started on Tuesday 20 June and runs through to Saturday 24 June at Ascot Racecourse in Berkshire. Luckily for racing fans Royal Ascot will be broadcasted on free-to-air ITV1 ...
Welcome to day three at Royal Ascot. Thursday 22 June 2023 12:02, Ben Fleming. Hello and welcome to The Independent’s live coverage of day three at Royal Ascot. The weather looks good, the ...
The Ascot Gold Cup, 1834 by James Pollard It is Britain's most prestigious event for "stayers" – horses which specialise in racing over long distances. It is traditionally held on the third day of the Royal Ascot meeting, which is known colloquially (but not officially) as Ladies' Day.
It is run at Ascot over a distance of 1 mile 3 furlongs and 211 yards (2,406 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in June. The event was established in 1834, and it was originally known as the Ascot Derby. 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 Coronation Stakes is now contested on the fourth day of the five-day Royal Ascot meeting. It usually features fillies which ran previously in the 1,000 Guineas, the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches or the Irish 1,000 Guineas. The most recent filly to follow up a win in one of those races with victory in the Coronation Stakes was Tahiyra, the ...
Camilla even reportedly met Charles at a polo match in Windsor in 1970. ... Nearly 100 years later, in 1807, Royal Ascot’s oldest surviving race, known as the Gold Cup, was added to the mix. ...
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.