Royal Ascot 2025: What you need to know

Royal Ascot is also well-known for having plenty of prize money on offer. In 2024, the races on day one were worth a combined £2,565,000. Moving on to the second day, the prize money came to an equally incredible £2,035,000. As for the third day, the 7 races that took place were collectively worth no less than £1,540,000.

Prize money on day four was worth £2,005,000, whilst on the fifth and final day worth £1,905,000 altogether.

With the 2025 race schedule not released as of yet, we will now take a look at the races which took place on each day and at what time each of them started in 2024.

Tuesday 18th June 2024 (7 Races):

• The Queen Anne Stakes (14:30) – Straight Mile.
• The Coventry Stakes (15:05) – Six Furlongs.
• The King Charles III Stakes (15:45) – Five Furlongs.
• The St. James’s Palace Stakes (16:25) – Old Mile.
• The Ascot Stakes (17:05) – Two miles, Four Furlongs.
• The Wolferton Stakes (17:40) – One mile, Two Furlongs.
• The Copper Horse Stakes (18:15) – One mile, Six Furlongs.

Wednesday 19th June 2024 (7 Races):

• The Queen Mary Stakes (14:30) – Five Furlongs.
• The Queen’s Vase (15:05) – One Mile, Six Furlongs.
• The Duke of Cambridge Stakes (15:45) – Old Mile.
• The Prince of Wales’s Stakes (16:25) – One Mile, Two Furlongs.
• The Royal Hunt Cup (17:05) – Straight Mile.
• The Kensington Palace Stakes (17:40) – Straight Mile.
• The Windsor Castle Stakes (18:15) – Five Furlongs.

Thursday 20th June 2024 (7 Races):

• The Norfolk Stakes (14:30) – Five Furlongs.
• The King George V Stakes (15:05) – One Mile, Four Furlongs.
• The Ribblesdale Stakes (15:45) – One Mile, Four Furlongs.
• The Gold Cup (16:25) – Two Miles, Four Furlongs.
• The Britannia Stakes (17:05) – Straight Mile.
• The Hampton Court Stakes (17:40) – One Mile, Two Furlongs.
• The Buckingham Palace Stakes (18:15) – Seven Furlongs.

Friday 21st June 2024 (7 Races):

• The Albany Stakes (14:30) – Six Furlongs.
• The Commonwealth Cup (15:05) – Six Furlongs.
• The Coronation Stakes (15:45) – Round (Old) Mile.
• The Duke of Edinburgh Stakes (16:25) – Old Mile, Four Furlongs.
• The Sandringham Stakes (17:05) – Straight Mile.
• The King Edward VII Stakes (17:40) – One Mile, Four Furlongs.
• The Palace of Holyroodhouse Stakes (18:15) – Five Furlongs.

Saturday 22nd June 2024 (7 Races):

• The Chesham Stakes (14:30) – Seven Furlongs.
• The Hardwicke Stakes (15:05) – One Mile, Four Furlongs.
• The Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes (15:45) – Six Furlongs.
• The Jersey Stakes (16:25) – Seven Furlongs.
• The Wokingham Stakes (17:05) – Six Furlongs.
• The Golden Gates Stakes (17:40) – One Mile, Two Furlongs.
• The Queen Alexandra Stakes (18:15) – Two Miles, Six Furlongs.

Royal Ascot in 2025 will also see 7 sensational races take place each day, there will be a total of 35 races taking place across the five days once more.

Most races at this event hold plenty of prestige, but it can be argued that the Ascot Gold Cup is the most reputable and prestigious of the lot. This is the race that the aforementioned Estimate won for Queen Elizabeth II back in 2013 with Ryan Moore as jockey.

The Ascot Gold Cup race itself has been taking place since 1807, where the winning horse was Master Jockey, where the jockey was awarded prize money of 100 guineas in the presence of King George III and Queen Charlotte.

History has been made on a number of occasions at Royal Ascot, and in 2009, Yeats became the first and so far only horse to have won the Ascot Gold Cup on four occasions. Yeats’ other three previous wins had come in 2006, 2007 and in 2008. Extraordinarily, all of these four wins were in successive years.

21 other horses have won the Ascot Gold Cup on more than one occasion, and they are: Anticipation (1816, 1819), Bizarre (1824, 1825), Touchstone (1836, 1837), The Emperor (1844, 1845), The Hero (1847, 1848), Fisherman (1858, 1859), Isonomy (1879, 1880), The White Knight (1907, 1908), Prince Palatine (1912, 1913), Invershin (1928, 1929), Trimdon (1931, 1932), Fighting Charlie (1965, 1966), Sagaro (1975, 1976, 1977), Le Moss (1979, 1980), Ardross (1981, 1982), Gildoran (1984, 1985), Sadeem (1988, 1989), Drum Taps (1992, 1993), Kayf Tara (1998, 2000), Royal Rebel (2001, 2002) and Stradivarius (2018, 2019, 2020).

As for jockeys, the honour of holding the record for the most wins to date in the Ascot Gold Cup History is held by the legendary Lester Piggott. He won this race on no less than 11 occasions with no less than 8 different horses.

Pigott’s wins came in: 1957 (Zarathustra), 1958 (Gladness), 1961 (Pandofell), 1963 (Twilight Alley), 1965 (Fighting Charlie), 1975, 1976, 1977 (Sagaro), 1979 (Le Moss), 1981 and 1982 (Ardross).

The leading trainer in the history of the Ascot Gold Cup is Aidan O’Brien, with 9 wins (Yeats – 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, Fame and Glory – 2011, Leading Light – 2014, Order of St George – 2016 and with Kyprios – 2022 & 2024).

The most recent winner of the Ascot Gold Cup came in 2024, and it was Ryan Moore who rod Kyprios to victory ahead of the likes of William Buick’s Trawlerman and Robert Havlin’s Sweet William, who had to settle for a second and third place finish respectively in the most recent running of this prestigious and historic race.

With excitement and anticipation growing rapidly ahead of the 2025 Royal Ascot getting underway at Ascot Racecourse, all eyes will be on what is sure to be five days of enthralling horse racing action from Tuesday, 17th to Saturday, 21st June 2025.

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