#Carlton House

The date: Thursday June 20, 2013. The place: Ascot. Royal Ascot, to be precise. A four-year-old filly called Estimate, ridden by Ryan Moore and trained by Sir Michael Stoute, powers past ColourVision in the final furlong and holds off the late challenges of Simenon and Top Trip to land the Gold Cup in a pulsating finish. The cheers of the 62000…

THERE will be no dream Derby win for The Queen on Platinum Jubilee weekend - but the great race could still end up in the hands of racing royalty. That's because Her Maj's old ally, Sir Michael Stoute, is back in the big time and firmly in the hunt for racing's Crown jewel. Many believed the days of a Stoute-trained favourite for the Derby were…

Her Majesty's passion for horses will be celebrated with unseen footage on ITV showing her feeding horses at the Sandringham stables The Queen will miss the Epsom Derby on Saturday for only the third time in her reign, Buckingham Palace confirmed on Friday. She will watch on television from Windsor Castle as she continues to suffer with mobility…

The Queen owned numerous superstar horses during her remarkable life in racing. Here are some of the best. . . The Queen had relatively few colts try their luck at Epsom in the Derby and none finished better than Aureole who, but for an inspired Sir Gordon Richards on Pinza, would have carried off the great prize just four days after the…

It's a familiar sight when watching horse racing to see the Queen's silks on a jockey on a horse that's owned by Her Majesty. And her hobby that she loves also pays dividends too, in the sum of £8.7m since 1988. In the last 35 years, the Queen has won 566 races and has entered horses in 3441 races in the UK, research by OLBG revealed. The Queen's…

Although she is perhaps most strongly associated with Royal Ascot, Queen Elizabeth II has been a regular visitor to Epsom Downs Racecourse and is set to return to the Surrey venue in 2022 as part of her Jubilee celebrations. Horse racing is one of the Queen's favourite pastimes and although she has enjoyed winners in both The Oaks and the 2000…

On the morning of Queen Elizabeth II's 1953 coronation, one of her ladies-in-waiting, with the imminent ceremony in mind, inquired if all was well with Her Majesty. The latter replied yes, trainer Cecil Boyd-Rochford had just rung to report that her colt Aureole had gone well in his last gallop before the Derby. This gem illustrating the late…

Spring is well and truly in the air and the fields for the weekend of racing has us raring to go for a big weekend on the punt. Throw in the AFL & NRL Finals, a few coldies and it is a genuinely elite weekend coming up. On Friday's edition of Punt Drunk, we look back at one of the all-time clashes in the George Main Stakes, before current day…

John Ingles looks at the five best horses owned by Queen Elizabeth II based on their peak Timeform ratings. AUREOLE (Timeform rating 132) As well as being one of the best horses to race for the Queen, Aureole was also one of the very first, as she inherited him as an unraced two-year-old on the death of her father, King George VI, in 1952. Trained…

As well as being one of the best horses to race for the Queen, Aureole was also one of the very first, as she inherited him as an unraced two-year-old on the death of her father, King George VI, in 1952. Trained by Captain Cecil Boyd-Rochfort at Newmarket, Aureole ran just twice at two, finishing sixth in the Middle Park Stakes after making a…

Her own racecourse will be patriotically decked out with four miles of bunting, but the biggest compliment Royal Ascot could ever pay to its treasured patron in Diamond Jubilee year is the unrivalled quality of the equine cast this week. The Queen may have conjured up her dutiful smile when Grace Jones and Wil.I.am received dubious call-ups for the…