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The winner of the first, Southern Hero, remains the race's oldest ever winner. After the war the racecourse re-opened, and the event returned in 1947 on a new date – Boxing Day . The King George VI Chase is now the second most prestigious chase in England, surpassed only by the Cheltenham Gold Cup .
The horse Blue Warrior strayed and fell into Kempton Park's centre-course lake having jumped before the start of the 19.20 on 14 January 2009. The rescue operation to get the horse out of the lake caused the race to be delayed by 15 minutes, with the horse rescued and sustaining a minor cut to his leg. [8]
The Hyde Stakes is a Listed flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three years or older. It is run at Kempton Park over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in late November or early December. The race was first run in 2007.
Hunt races took place in the middle of October for two days. The Hoo Racecourse [86] Hertfordshire: England: 1821: not known: Racing, mainly hunter chases, took place at the end of April and for a short time in the 1820s and 1830s the course was very fashionable: Kingston Racecourse [89] Herefordshire: England: not known: not known
The September Stakes is a Group 3 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three years or older. It is run at Kempton Park over a distance of 1 mile 3 furlongs and 219 yards (2,413 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in early September.
The Snowdrop Fillies' Stakes is a Listed flat horse race in Great Britain open to fillies and mares aged four years or older. It is run over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 metres) at Kempton Park in April. [1] The race was first run in 2004.
The Floodlit Stakes is a Listed flat horse race in Great Britain, which is open to horses aged three years or older. It is run at Kempton Park over a distance of 1 mile, 3 furlongs and 219 yards (2,414 metres). It is scheduled to take place each year in November.
The race was first run in 1949, but in 1988 it was rebranded as the Racing Post Chase and increased in value. The sponsorship by the Racing Post continued until 2011. In the 2012 the sponsorship was taken over by rival weekend newspaper Racing Plus who backed the race until 2013, and in 2014 the sponsorship passed to BetBright .