Buckingham Palace Stakes

The Buckingham Palace Stakes is a flat handicap horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three and over. It is run at Ascot over a distance of 7 furlongs (1,408 metres), and is currently scheduled to take place each year in June on the third day of the Royal Ascot meeting.


Buckingham Palace Stakes
Handicap race
LocationAscot Racecourse
Ascot, England
Inaugurated2002
Race typeFlat / Thoroughbred
WebsiteAscot
Race information
Distance7f (1,408 metres)
SurfaceTurf
TrackStraight
QualificationThree-year-olds and up
WeightHandicap
Purse£100,000 (2014)
1st: £62,250
Buckingham Palace Stakes
2020
Motakhayyel Jack's Point Mutamaasik

The Buckingham Palace Stakes was established in 2002, when the Royal Ascot meeting was extended to a fifth day to mark the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II[1] and was named after Buckingham Palace, the London residence of the British monarch. It was last run in 2014 and replaced from the 2015 Royal Ascot meeting by a new Group One sprint race, the Commonwealth Cup.[2] The Sporting Life called the loss of the only 7-furlong handicap at Royal Ascot "a mistake".[3]

In 2020, the race returned as part of an expanded Royal Ascot programme, following the 10-week suspension of horse racing in the United Kingdom due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[4] The revival was intended to be a one-off event but the race was retained from 2021 when the Royal Ascot meeting was permanently expanded to included seven races each day.[5]

Records

Leading jockey (3 wins):

  • Neil Callan – Uhoomagoo (2006), Eton Forever (2012), Lightning Cloud (2013)

Leading trainer (2 wins):

  • Kevin Ryan – Uhoomagoo (2006), Lightning Cloud (2013)

Winners
Year Winner Age Weight Jockey Trainer Time
2002 Demonstrate 4 8-06 Richard Hughes John Gosden 1:27.43
2003 Attache 5 9-12 Philip Robinson Michael Jarvis 1:26.85
2004 Unscrupulous 5 8-05 Oscar Urbina James Fanshawe 1:27.41
2005 Jedburgh [lower-alpha 1] 4 9-08 Mick Kinane John Dunlop 1:22.53
2006 Uhoomagoo 8 8-09 Neil Callan Kevin Ryan 1:27.45
2007 Binanti 7 8-07 Franny Norton Patrick Chamings 1:29.28
2008 Regal Parade 4 8-11 Ahmed Ajtebi David Nicholls 1:27.17
2009 Giganticus 6 8-12 Michael Hills Barry Hills 1:27.44
2010 Treadwell 3 8-10 Fergus Sweeney Jamie Osborne 1:25.90
2011 Manassas 6 9-00 Martin Dwyer Brian Meehan 1:29.71
2012 Eton Forever 5 9-08 Neil Callan Roger Varian 1:29.68
2013 Lightning Cloud 5 8-13 Neil Callan Kevin Ryan 1:26.31
2014 Louis The Pious 6 9-04 Silvestre de Sousa David O'Meara 1:26.85
2015–2019 Race not run
2020 Motakhayyel 4 9-03 Jim Crowley Richard Hannon 1:26.19
  1. The 2005 running took place at York

See also

References
  1. "History and conditions of the races at Royal Ascot". eclipsemagazine.co.uk. Archived from the original on 27 February 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
  2. "NEW GROUP ONE SPRINT AT ROYAL ASCOT NAMED". Sky Sports. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  3. Linfoot, Ben. "Ben Linfoot: On the radar - handicappers to follow at Royal Ascot". Sporting Life. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  4. "New races unveiled as Royal Ascot broadens programme for prestigious fixture". Racing Post. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  5. Harding, Jonathan (18 January 2021). "Seven up! Royal Ascot to permanently expand meeting to seven races a day". Racing Post. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
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