QIPCO Champion Stakes
Group 1, Ascot 15:55
£1,300,000 guaranteed,
3yo plus,
1m 1f 212y, Class 1   
Saturday 18th October 2025

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This race routinely attracts many of the world’s best ten furlong horses and that looks set to be the case again this year with Calandagan, Delacroix, Ombudsman, Los Angeles and last year’s winner Anmaat among the 38 entries.

Recent King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes Calandagan was second in the race last year and could bid to go one better while his trainer Francis-Henri Graffard has also entered the 2024 King George winner Goliath and the unbeaten Daryz who looks a fascinating possible contender.

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Qipco Champion Stakes
(British Champions Middle Distance) (Group 1)
£1,300,000 guaranteed, 3yo plus, 1m 1f 212y, Class 1
37 entries
Going:

NO. FORM HORSE AGE WGT TRAINER JOCKEY (form as of Aug 08)
1 32-312 Almaqam 4 9-7 Ed Walker
2 151-22 Anmaat 7 9-7 Owen Burrows
3 2-2211 Calandagan 4 9-7 F-H Graffard
4 6936-2 Caviar Heights 4 9-7 William Haggas
5 959485 Continuous 5 9-7 A P O'Brien
6 11116- Economics 4 9-7 William Haggas
7 4-1611 Fox Legacy 4 9-7 Andrew Balding
8 16-915 Goliath 5 9-7 F-H Graffard
9 39-115 Los Angeles 4 9-7 A P O'Brien
10 11-212 Ombudsman 4 9-7 John & Thady Gosden
11 10-545 Prague 5 9-7 Dylan Cunha
12 1-1471 Royal Champion 7 9-7 K R Burke
13 673-35 Royal Rhyme 5 9-7 K R Burke
14 111-24 White Birch 5 9-7 John Joseph Murphy
15 17111- Friendly Soul 4 9-4 John & Thady Gosden
16 5-5133 See The Fire 4 9-4 Andrew Balding
17 113-27 Tamfana 4 9-4 David Menuisier
18 41-1 Almeric 3 9-3 Andrew Balding
19 1111 Daryz 3 9-3 F-H Graffard
20 2-1191 Delacroix 3 9-3 A P O'Brien
21 12-99 Expanded 3 9-3 A P O'Brien
22 1-1 Gethin 3 9-3 Owen Burrows
23 1-1123 Henri Matisse 3 9-3 A P O'Brien
24 13 Jackknife 3 9-3 Roger Varian
25 5-2111 Lambourn 3 9-3 A P O'Brien
26 312-31 Mount Kilimanjaro 3 9-3 A P O'Brien
27 111 Nahraan 3 9-3 John & Thady Gosden
28 1-100 Pride Of Arras 3 9-3 Ralph Beckett
29 1-321 Saddadd 3 9-3 Roger Varian
30 12-155 Stanhope Gardens 3 9-3 Ralph Beckett
31 312-1 Swagman 3 9-3 A P O'Brien
32 11-603 The Lion In Winter 3 9-3 A P O'Brien
33 1-4621 Tornado Alert 3 9-3 Saeed bin Suroor
34 2112 Zahrann 3 9-3 J P Murtagh
35 55-624 Bedtime Story 3 9-0 A P O'Brien
36 21-111 Minnie Hauk 3 9-0 A P O'Brien
37 -61211 Whirl 3 9-0 A P O'Brien