#Royal Box

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…

The French racing community collectively love Ascot like no other fixture outside their own borders and will be on the royal racecourse in force to prove it this week. In fact the powers that be at France Galop are so enamoured of the meeting that they schedule nothing above Listed status on the Flat in opposition, allowing everyone to focus on the…

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…

Ladies' Day this year will better resemble what Royal Ascot is world famous for: fashion, pomp and pageantry as the crowd - despite limited in number - make up for lost time in terms of putting on their finery to match the best flat racing in the world. This is also the moment of the week when Her Majesty The Queen, if she does decide to go to the…

Racing has got back underway after being postponed on Friday and Saturday following the passing of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday. With full cards postponed across the country, fans flocked back to Chepstow and Doncaster in droves to pay tribute to the Queen ahead of an exciting day's racing. The St Leger is the pick of a nine-race card at…

The first of The Queen's Royal Ascot hopefuls runs in the King's Stand Stakes on Tuesday (June 15). Buckingham Palace has yet to announce if Her Majesty will be in the royal box to see King's Lynn off at 3.40pm. The four-year-old, trained by Andrew Balding, will be ridden by jockey Oisin Murphy in the five-furlong race which carries a prize of…

Sky Sports Racing ambassador Hollie Doyle discusses her four rides on the opening day of Royal Ascot 2022 on Tuesday, including leading Coventry Stakes contender Bradsell. I have ridden Archie Watson's exciting juvenile Bradsell in all his work and there's no doubt he deserves to take his chance in the Coventry Stakes (3.05) on the opening day of…

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…

BOOKIES reckon King Charles could make a fortune in racing next year after inheriting the late Queen's massive stable. Her Majesty was racing's biggest fan - but also one of its shrewdest operators. As well as travelling to her beloved Royal Ascot and Epsom for the Derby, she turned a healthy profit from her army of runners. Over the past five…

Every year there's a frisson of excitement at Cheltenham Festival as racegoers try to guess who is in the Royal Box. Most years there will be at least one member of the Windsor clan cheering on the horses at the four-day festival. So who might it be here this year? If the bookies allowed betting on which royal is most unlikely to there, the Queen…

RUNNING out of the Royal Box at the 1991 Derby, The Queen calls out behind her to the Queen Mother: "That's my horse, isn't it? That's my horse!" Then when Generous, the runner she had drawn in the £1 family sweepstake, is first past the post she exclaims: "Oh my God, Mother! We won!" The joyous piece of footage ends with an aide coming to present…