INTERNATIONAL RACES the Best Track, the Best Horses, “ the Queen Comes, Everybody Dressed up with Top Hat and Tails
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Tuesday 15th - Saturday 19th June 2021 INTERNATIONAL RACES The best track, the best horses, “ The Queen comes, everybody dressed up with top hat and tails. You can’t “get any better than that globally. The quality of racing is out of this world. FRANKIE DETTORI CAMPANELLE wins the 2020 Queen Mary Stakes for the USA, following in the footsteps of stablemate LADY AURELIA, winner of the race in 2016. CONTENTS Welcome to Ascot 2 Shipping and Quarantine 12 The Commonwealth Cup 20 Course Layout 3 VAT (Tax/Duty) 12 The Coronation Stakes 21 Travel Allowances 4 Stabling and Training Facilities 13 The Diamond Jubilee Stakes 22 International & Domestic Alliances 5 Owners’ Experience 14 The King George VI 23 Nomination Procedures 6 The Queen Anne Stakes 15 & Queen Elizabeth QIPCO Stakes Medication & Doping Control / 8 The King’s Stand Stakes 16 Royal Ascot Pattern 24 and Listed Races 2020 Vaccination Requirements The St James’s Palace Stakes 17 Contacts 26 Testing 9 The Prince of Wales’s Stakes 18 Equipment 11 The Gold Cup 19 WELCOME TO ASCOT fter a truly cosmopolitan 2019, with nine All of our Group One races are part of the nations represented at Royal Ascot, last QIPCO British Champions Series and five Ayear was difficult for the whole global Ascot events are part of the Breeders’ Cup Win racing industry and we are incredibly grateful & You’re In programme. to the American and European contingent Details for all Royal Ascot Pattern & Listed that did make it to the UK and added so much Races, and the King George, can be found in international flavour to the week. this brochure along with information on travel Wesley Ward added a remarkable 11th Royal allowances, shipping, and options for stabling Ascot winner to his tally with Campanelle in the at our preferred base in Newmarket. Queen Mary Stakes and fellow Ascot regular, The Ascot team, our associates at the Graham Motion, found only the brilliant Irish- International Racing Bureau, our agents around trained Alpine Star too good with his Breeders’ the world, and our colleagues at Great British Cup winner, Sharing, in the Coronation Stakes. Racing International, are here to make your trip a memorable one and we look forward to Prize money for Royal Ascot this year is £6 welcoming you. million, an increase of 66% on last year’s Covid-hit total. We are determined to build Nick Smith up to where we were in 2019 and beyond as Director of Racing soon as practically possible. The King George, & Public Affairs sponsored by QIPCO, is worth £875,000 (£400,000 last year), as we, with the sponsors, are committed to maintaining its reputation as Europe’s midsummer highlight. 2 COURSE LAYOUT Ascot’s round track is just under one and The course then rises to the right-handed three-quarter miles in length. The round home turn to join the Straight Mile course. course descends from the mile-and-a-half The run-in of about three furlongs (600m) (2400m) start into Swinley Bottom, the lowest rises slightly to the Winning Post. part of the track. It then turns right-handed and joins the “Old Mile” course, which starts at A detailed topography map is available a separate chute 1600m from the finish. upon request. 3 TRAVEL ALLOWANCES Enquiries are welcome concerning potential contributions towards the cost of transport for 115+ rated horses travelling to the UK from outside Europe to compete specifically in Group One races at Ascot. Travel incentives will not apply for horses that have been trained outside Europe but are being transferred to be campaigned in Europe in the name of a European trainer. The racecourse reserves the right to decide what does and what does not qualify for an allowance. Ascot offers connections of each travelling Australia’s BLACK CAVIAR wins the 2012 Representing Hong Kong, LITTLE BRIDGE horse (subject to meeting the criteria above) Diamond Jubilee Stakes. wins the 2012 King’s Stand Stakes. an agreed “all in” travel allowance towards the cost of the venture. This sum will depend on However, assistance in organising and the races being targeted, the horse’s rating booking all of the above is available and its profile. It is thereafter the responsibility through the International Racing Bureau, of the horse’s connections to settle directly under their contract with Ascot. Ascot all charges incurred, including the horse provides top class raceday hospitality shipping, personal flights, stabling, access to and badges for a reasonable number of training facilities and general expenditure. connections accompanying any horse when their horse is racing. TEPIN wins the 2016 Queen Anne Stakes for American trainer Mark Casse. 4 INTERNATIONAL & DOMESTIC ALLIANCES QIPCO BRITISH BREEDERS’ CUP CHAMPIONS SERIES Four Royal Ascot races are designated Breeders’ Cup Win & You’re The QIPCO British Champions In Challenge races. This year’s Breeders’ Cup will take place on Series is designed to throw the Friday 5th & Saturday 6th November at Del Mar Racecourse in San spotlight on Britain’s best Flat Diego, California. races and will climax on Saturday The King George VI & Queen Elizabeth QIPCO Stakes is a 16th October 2021 with the most longstanding qualifier for the Breeders’ Cup Turf. valuable fixture in the British racing calendar, QIPCO British Champions Day at Ascot. ASCOT RACES BREEDERS’ CUP The Series features 35 Flat races staged at ten of the UK’s The Queen Anne Stakes The Breeders’ Cup Mile leading racecourses: Ascot, Doncaster, Epsom Downs, The Prince of Wales’s Stakes The Breeders’ Cup Turf Goodwood, Haydock Park, Newbury, Newmarket’s July Course, Newmarket’s Rowley Mile, Sandown Park and York. The Norfolk Stakes The Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint It encompasses the top races at British racing’s key festivals, The Diamond Jubilee Stakes The Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint including The QIPCO Guineas Festival at Newmarket, The Investec Derby Festival at Epsom, Royal Ascot, The Moët & The King George VI & Queen The Breeders’ Cup Turf Chandon July Festival, The Qatar Goodwood Festival, The Elizabeth QIPCO Stakes Welcome to Yorkshire Ebor Festival at York and The William Hill St Leger Festival at Doncaster. For further information please contact Josh Christian, whose contact details are on page 27. breederscup.com/challenge-series/full-schedule 5 NOMINATION PROCEDURES Group One and early closing Group Two races for Royal Ascot close on Tuesday 27th April (26th April for American nominations) and the King George closes on Tuesday 8th June (7th June for American nominations). All nominations (race entries) should be made through your local Jockey Club or Racing Authority with the exception of horses trained in the USA (see page 7). Once a horse is nominated there are three further confirmation stages, the dates for which are detailed on the race pages of this brochure. Once an initial entry is made, the International Racing Bureau, contracted by Ascot, will ensure that the rest of the process is managed smoothly. They, and Ascot’s other agents and international partners, are also available to assist in the initial nomination procedure, and all contact details can be found on pages 26-27. SHANG SHANG SHANG lands USA handler Wesley Ward with a second win in the Norfolk Stakes. 6 NOMINATIONS FOR HORSES TRAINED IN THE USA SPECIAL NOTICE TO US CONNECTIONS American entries need to be made directly to Weatherbys by emailing [email protected], with [email protected] and The EU has amended the Import / [email protected] copied in. Transit regulation with regards to the Eastern and Western Equine The communication should include: Encephalomyelitis clause. It now • Owner’s name, full address, phone number and email address requires records of a Primary EEE / • Horse’s name, age, colour, sex and breeding WEE course of two vaccinations • Trainer’s name and a booster plus the normal Flu • Description of the owner’s racing colours vaccinations for transiting to the UK • A past performance record or racing here. Unless trainers / vets • The race for which it is being entered and the racecourse have records it might take up to two months to complete the primary course / booster for EEE / WEE. Connections of Group One / Two horses are advised to undertake this process alongside or preferably before making nominations for Royal Ascot in mid-April. Connections of other potential runners, notably those with two-year-olds, should follow this process at the same time although no early nominations are required. Please contact your shipping agent as soon as Royal Ascot becomes a tenable option for full details of what vaccinations are required. LADY AURELIA returns to Royal Ascot in 2017 to win Popular stallion NO NAY NEVER wins the 2013 Norfolk the King’s Stand Stakes. Stakes, representing American trainer, Wesley Ward. 7 MEDICATION & DOPING CONTROL / VACCINATION REQUIREMENTS The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) is Overseas trainers are advised to the sport’s governing and regulatory body in familiarise themselves with Manual (K) Great Britain and encourages international because it includes important information participation in British Racing. about Prohibited Substances, and the Whereabouts requirements. The BHA’s Rules of Racing stipulate that international visiting horses compete on equal Information regarding substances that are terms with each other and resident British prohibited at all times and those that are horses; that is to say, they race free from the prohibited on raceday (i.e. must not be effects of Prohibited Substances, whether that present in the horse’s system on raceday be medication or other substances e.g. herbal and must therefore be withdrawn prior products. to racing) is detailed in the Rules. A list of published Detection Times for commonly General information on the BHA’s equine anti- used therapeutic veterinary treatments can be doping and controlled medication rules can be found here: found at: Rules of Racing Manual (K) – Equine https://www.britishhorseracing.com/wp-content/ uploads/2019/05/PUBLISHED-DETECTION-TIMES- Anti-Doping - https://rules.britishhorseracing.com/#!/ updated-June-2019.pdf book/34/chapter/s3457-anti-doping Please note that a Detection Time is not Anti-Doping & Medication Control - equivalent to a Withdrawal Time.