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Gallant Takeover Just Misses Target 24/06/06
Tuesday’s Australian-trained King’s Stand Stakes winner Takeover Stand just failed in his bid to land a Royal Ascot sprint double when finishing third to Les Arcs in the Golden Jubilee Stakes. [more]

Yeats Runs Away With Gold Cup 23/06/06
Trainer Aidan O’Brien added a new chapter to his long list of successes when Yeats, making his seasonal debut, ran away with the Gold Cup by four lengths under Kieren Fallon. [more]

Nannina Proves Herself Best Filly In Europe 23/06/06
Nannina finished two lengths clear of a glittering field featuring Europe’s finest three-year-old mile fillies when winning the Group 1 Coronation Stakes under Jimmy Fortune. [more]

Get Set For A Golden Jubilee Thriller 23/06/06
Takeover Target will on Saturday bid to emulate the magnificent achievement of fellow Australian raider Choisir, who won both the King’s Stand and Golden Jubilee Stakes in 2003. [more]

Choice Field for Coronation Stakes
22/06/06
Fifteen Fillies will make up the field for a top-drawer renewal of the Coronation Stakes on Friday. It is the biggest field for the Coronation Stakes since Avila won in 1949 from 14 others. [more]

Takeover Target Gains Rapturous Worldwide Acclaim 22/06/06
Takeover Target’s thrilling triumph in yesterday’s King’s Stand Stakes - the first British leg of the Global Sprint Challenge - stole all the headlines in the media’s Royal Ascot coverage after the first day. [more]

Gold Cup Preview 21/06/06
Last year’s Gold Cup second Distinction will bid to go one better as he faces 11 rivals in Thursday’s renewal of the famous two-and-a-half mile Group 1. [more]

It’s The Best Of The Best For The Prince Of Wales’s Stakes 21/06/06
A racing enthusiast could barely have a more appetising prospect - a Dubai World Cup winner, a Dubai Duty Free and Champion Stakes winner plus a multiple Group 1-winning mare. That’s what the tens of thousands at Royal Ascot will have to savour on Wednesday when the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes will be staged. [more]

Highclere Plans Four Royal Ascot Runners After Primary Weekend 20/06/06
Highclere Thoroughbred Racing, the most successful racehorse multiple ownership operation in Europe, looks set to have at least four runners at Royal Ascot this week. [more]

Australians target Ascot takeover
03/05/06
Global Sprint Challenge series leader, Takeover Target (Joe Janiak), is one of three Australian entries for the Golden Jubilee Stakes on Saturday 24th June. The winner of leg one of the 2006 series, the Lightning Stakes at Flemington in February, is chasing the US$1,000,000 bonus on offer for winning a Group One challenge leg in three out of four participating countries. [more]

Royal Meeting Prize Money Tops £3.5 Million For The First Time 26/01/06
Prize Money for Royal Ascot, Tuesday 20th to Saturday 24th June, has been increased by 12.5% in 2006, bringing the total on offer over the five days to £3,665,000 from £3,255,000.

Across the board increases totalling £85,000 have been made to 11 races to ensure that no race at the Royal Meeting is run for less than £55,000.

Additions to the Golden Jubilee Stakes (£350,000 from £250,000) and the King's Stand Stakes (£200,000 from £140,000) were announced in December and further highlights within the £410,000 total increase revealed today include:

* £70,000 added to the King Edward VII Stakes, now worth £200,000.
* £25,000 added to both the St James's Palace Stakes and Coronation Stakes, now both worth £250,000.
* £10,000 added to the Coventry Stakes, now worth £80,000.
* £10,000 added to the Norfolk Stakes, now worth £70,000.
* £20,000 added to the Queen Alexandra Stakes, one of the 11 races increased to ensure that the minimum value for any Royal Ascot race is £55,000.

"It is important for racing to return to the newly redeveloped Ascot with significant increases in prize money for our flagship meeting," said Douglas Erskine-Crum, Chief Executive at Ascot.

"Two of the largest increases, cumulatively an additional £160,000 to the all-aged sprints, are important as, along with the Prince of Wales's Stakes, they are the key Royal Ascot races which we are promoting around the world.

"However, it is equally important to continue to make all the races at the Royal Meeting as attractive as possible to domestic and European owners and trainers so we have added money to 11 races to ensure £55,000 is the minimum on offer across the 30 race programme as befits Europe's premier flat race meeting.

"We have also put £25,000 on both the St James's Palace Stakes and the Coronation Stakes and increased the King Edward VII Stakes by £70,000 to £200,000 with the aim of increasing its profile and appeal within what is a particularly congested category at that time of year.

"The Norfolk Stakes is up £10,000 to £70,000 to reflect its promotion to Group Two status and we have also increased the value of the Coventry Stakes by £10,000 to £80,000 so that it retains its stature as Royal Ascot's premier two-year-old race."

The only change to the order of running from 2005 is that the Windsor Castle Stakes and the Chesham Stakes switch places, with the former now run on Tuesday and the latter on Saturday, so reverting to the format at Ascot in 2004.

Due to the realignment of the course and implementation of the new Stereline Stalls, there are some minor reductions in maximum field sizes: 6f (28 from 30); 7f (29 from 30); 1m Straight (30 from 32); 1m Round (28 from 30); 10f (16 from 18); 1½m (19 from 20); 2m 6f (30 from 32). The remaining safety limits remain unchanged. The Queen Alexandra Stakes, formerly 2m about 6f, is now 2m about 5f 159y and the Queen's Vase is reduced by 45y to about 2m.

Royal Ascot to return home in 2006 11/10/05
The Duke of Devonshire, Her Majesty’s Representative and Chairman of Ascot Racecourse, today confirmed that Royal Ascot will be back at its Berkshire home next year.