Royal Ascot

[my miss storm cat]

Tuesday 14th - Saturday 18th June 2011: Royal Ascot


DAY 1 ~ TUESDAY 14th JUNE

The Queen Anne Stakes (Group 1) 4+ £250,000 One Mile
The King’s Stand Stakes (Group 1) 3+ £300,000 Five furlongs
The St James’s Palace Stakes (Group 1) 3 colts £250,000 Old mile
The Coventry Stakes (Group 2) 2 £85,000 Six furlongs
The Ascot Stakes (Handicap) 4+ £50,000 Two and a half miles
The Windsor Castle Stakes (Listed) 2 £50,000 Five furlongs


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DAY 2 ~ WEDNESDAY 15th JUNE

The Jersey Stakes (Group 3) 3 £70,000 Seven furlongs
The Windsor Forest Stakes (Group 2) 4+ fillies &
mares £100,000 One mile
The Prince of Wales’s Stakes (Group 1) 4+ £400,000 One and a quarter miles
The Royal Hunt Cup (Heritage Handicap) 3+ £100,000 One mile
The Queen Mary Stakes (Group 2) 2 fillies £75,000 Five furlongs
The Sandringham Stakes (Listed) (Handicap) 3 fillies £50,000 One mile


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DAY 3 ~ THURSDAY 16th JUNE

The Norfolk Stakes (Group 2) 2 £75,000 Five furlongs
The Ribblesdale Stakes (Group 2) 3 fillies £100,000 One and a half miles
The Gold Cup (Group 1) 4+ £250,000 Two and a half miles
The Britannia Stakes (Heritage Handicap) 3 colts & geldings £100,000 One mile
The Tercentenary Stakes (Group 3) 3 £70,000 One and a quarter miles
The King George V Stakes (Handicap) 3 £50,000 One and a half miles


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DAY 4 ~ FRIDAY 17th JUNE

The Albany Stakes (Group 3) 2 fillies £60,000 Six furlongs
The King Edward VII Stakes (Group 2) 3 colts & geldings £140,000 One and a half miles
The Coronation Stakes (Group 1) 3 fillies £250,000 Old mile
The Wolferton Rated Stakes (Listed) 4+ £50,000 One and a quarter miles
The Queen’s Vase (Group 3) 3 £60,000 Two miles
The Buckingham Palace Stakes (Handicap) 3+ £50,000 Seven furlongs


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DAY 5 ~ SATURDAY 18th JUNE

The Chesham Stakes (Listed) 2 £50,000 Seven furlongs
The Hardwicke Stakes (Group 2) 4+ £100,000 One and a half miles
The Golden Jubilee Stakes (Group 1) 3+ £400,000 Six furlongs
The Wokingham Stakes (Heritage Handicap) 3+ £100,000 Six furlongs
The Duke of Edinburgh Stakes
(Handicap) 3+ £50,000 One and a half miles
The Queen Alexandra Stakes (Conditions) 4+ £50,000 Two miles, six furlongs

How some of the fields are shaping up for Day 1...

http://horses.sportinglife.com/Racec...429412,00.html

[_ed_]

My favourite week of racing every year. Can't wait.

[Rileyoriley]

Do you know if TVG will be covering the races (live)?

[clyde]

Don't play dead,Ed.



Answer the filthy rich lady.

[my miss storm cat]

Yeah ed so what if you're halfway around the world... answer her!

I hope so, I"d imagine so, but if there's been mention of it I haven't noticed.

[my miss storm cat]

Barzalona gets the Delegator mount (nice!), Lady of the Desert out with a slight injury and Workfore out and pointed to the Coral-Eclipse instead...

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by Rileyoriley

Do you know if TVG will be covering the races (live)?

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...ill-air-on-tvg

[TouchOfGrey]

HRTV will be showing them as well.

[clyde]

Apparently Ed is in a different time zone.



Wow...look at alll the veins,muscles and sinewy stuff all over my pretty body.

Ah'd eat me.

Oh----forgive me,Ed.