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Camilla watched a race anxiously at the annual Royal Ascot, a staple of the royal family's annual calendar. All the best photos of Royal Ascot 2024 Chris Jackson - Getty Images
Royal Ascot, a race founded by Queen Anne in 1711, takes place each June at the Ascot Racecourse in Berkshire. Each day, members of the royal family attend, officially opening the event.
Here, we’ve rounded up all the best photos from the 2024 Royal Ascot. June 21. King Charles III. Chris Jackson - Getty Images. Mark Cuthbert - Getty Images. John Walton - PA Images - Getty Images.
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 on the third day of the Royal Ascot meeting. Winners since 1984
The race is now contested on the final day of the five-day Royal Ascot meeting. Prior to 2015 the race was also open to three-year-olds. It was restricted to four-year-olds and up when a new six furlong Group One race, the Commonwealth Cup , was created at the meeting for three-year-olds only in 2015.
It is run at Ascot over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 metres) on the straight course, and it is scheduled to take place each year in June on the third day of the Royal Ascot meeting. The Britannia Stakes was first run in 1928 and takes place over the same course and distance as the Royal Hunt Cup .
Last year’s Royal Ascot saw an unlikely win for Charles, with his horse, Desert Hero, overcoming odds of 18 to 1 to land first place. Francis Brooke, Charles’ representative at Ascot, said the ...
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 ...