INTERNATIONAL RACES Above: Tepin Makes History, Winning the 2016 Queen Anne Stakes for the USA
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Tuesday 19th - Saturday 23rd June 2018 INTERNATIONAL RACES Above: Tepin makes history, winning the 2016 Queen Anne Stakes for the USA. CONTENTS Welcome to Ascot 2 Shipping and Quarantine 18 The Commonwealth Cup 36 Course Layout 4 VAT (Tax/Duty) 19 The Diamond Jubilee Stakes 39 Travel Allowances 5 Stabling and Training Facilities 20 The King George VI 40 International & Domestic Alliances 7 The Queen Anne Stakes 24 & Queen Elizabeth Stakes Longholes Rehabilitation 10 The King’s Stand Stakes 27 Royal Ascot Pattern 42 and Pre-training centre and Listed Races 2018 The St James’s Palace Stakes 28 Nomination Procedures Contacts 54 12 The Prince of Wales’s Stakes 31 USA Nominations 13 Lady Aurelia wins the 2017 King’s Stand Stakes, becoming The Gold Cup 32 Medication & Doping Control / the first dual Royal Ascot winner for the USA. 14 The Coronation Stakes 35 Vaccination Requirements / Testing WELCOME TO ASCOT “ I’ve been coming to Royal Ascot for several years now, with Wesley Once again Royal A record 14 runners from the USA took part over Since the turn of the Millennium we have seen 10 Ascot was a the week, appropriately enough with the meeting winners at Royal Ascot from America, two from and others, and have even been cosmopolitan affair in carried extensively by NBC for the first time. Hong Kong, five from Australia – including the lucky enough to enjoy a few wins 2017, with the headline great Black Caviar in 2012 – and numerous horses but to be a small part of the act a second win at We were delighted to welcome Todd Pletcher, have made it to the Winners’ Enclosure from all the Royal Meeting for Graham Motion, Mark Casse – returning after around Europe. team to strike in a Royal Ascot the Wesley Ward- his ground-breaking win with Tepin in the 2016 Group One with Undrafted has trained, Lady Aurelia. Queen Anne – and, for the first time, Bill Mott. This brochure contains extensive information to be the highlight of my time in for those considering a visit to the UK, including racing. There’s only one place you Having scorched the Also talking of firsts, it was wonderful to have a first details of our dedicated Owners’ & Trainers’ Ascot turf over the minimum distance of 1,000 runner from Argentina in the King George in July, team led by Olivia Hills and Jenna Linwood. will find my crew in the middle of metres in the Queen Mary as a two-year-old in with South American champion, Sixties Song, in We also have a network of international agents June each year as it’s a thrill just 2016, if anything she was even more impressive the line-up in a race which was ultimately won by around the world, many within the International to be a part of it all.” dispatching her rivals in the all-aged King’s Stand Enable, who of course went on to win the Arc too. Racing Bureau and led by Adrian Beaumont in Stakes on this occasion. Newmarket. Sixties Song joins a list of recent champions Lady Aurelia is owned by Stonestreet Farm and from all over the world who, whilst ultimately Royal Ascot Prize Money is up from £6,665,000 partners, with Barbara Banke at the helm, and we unsuccessful, contributed to Ascot’s reputation as to a record £7,305,000 this year, with the King are most grateful that of all the places they could the ultimate stage for equine flag bearers from far George increasing in value by £100,000 to have run their star filly overseas, for the second and wide. Like A Shin Hikari (Japan), Able Friend £1,250,000. time they selected the UK. (Hong Kong), Treve (France) and Animal Kingdom (USA), he was a most welcome participant, and we We look forward to extending a warm welcome to Wesley Ward also made history at the meeting thank particularly the connections of such stars visitors from far and wide in 2018. when winning the Sandringham with Con Te in their homeland for taking up the challenge and Partiro, a first handicap winner for the USA at Royal adding so much international lustre to our venue. Ascot and a ninth overall success for the trainer. Gatewood Bell, Bloodstock Agent, Nick Smith Director of Racing & Communications USA. 2 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 horse (subject to meeting the criteria above) an agreed “all in” travel allowance towards the cost of the venture. This sum will depend on the races being targeted, the horse’s rating and its profile. It is the responsibility of the horse’s connections, thereafter, to settle directly all charges incurred, including the horse shipping, personal flights, stabling, access to training facilities and general expenditure. However, assistance in organising and booking all of the above is available through the International Racing Bureau, under their contract with Ascot. Ascot will provide top class raceday hospitality and badges for a reasonable number of connections accompanying any horse when the horse is racing. COURSE LAYOUT Ascot’s round track is just under one-and-three-quarter miles in length. The course then rises to the right-handed home turn to join the straight The round course descends from the mile-and-a-half (2400m) start into mile course. The run-in of about three furlongs (600m) rises slightly to Swinley Bottom, the lowest part of the track. It then turns right-handed the Winning Post. and joins the “Old Mile” course, which starts at a separate chute 1600m Above: The great Black Caviar (Luke Nolen) narrowly defeats French champion from the finish. A detailed topography map is available upon request. Moonlight Cloud in the 2012 Diamond Jubilee Stakes. 4 5 INTERNATIONAL & DOMESTIC ALLIANCES BRITISH CHAMPIONS SERIES BREEDERS’ CUP The QIPCO British Champions Series is designed to The King George is an established throw the spotlight on Britain’s best Flat races and will Breeders’ Cup Challenge race climax on 20 October 2018 with the richest fixture in carrying incentives for the winner British racing history, QIPCO British Champions Day to run in the Breeders’ Cup Turf, at Ascot. to be run this year on 3rd November at Churchill Downs, Kentucky. The Series features 35 Flat races staged at ten of the UK’s leading racecourses: Ascot, Doncaster, The globe-trotting Highland Reel was the latest to Epsom Downs, Goodwood, Haydock Park, Newbury, achieve the double in 2016. Conduit also won both races Newmarket’s July Course, Newmarket’s Rowley Mile, in 2009. Sandown Park and York. The full schedule of Challenge Races will be unveiled It encompasses the top races early in 2018. at British racing’s key festivals, including the QIPCO Guineas Festival at Newmarket, the Investec Derby Festival at Epsom, Royal Ascot, the Moët & Chandon July Festival, The Qatar Goodwood Festival, the Welcome to Yorkshire Ebor Festival at York and the William Hill St Leger Festival at Doncaster. Pattern Races for QIPCO British Champions Day close August 7th (6th in USA). A separate brochure will be available later in the year. 6 7 KING GEORGE/JAPAN CUP SOUTH AMERICAN ALLIANCE The JRA offer a US$1,000,000 As part of an arrangement between Ascot bonus to any horse successful Racecourse and Latin American Racing in the King George who goes Channel (LARC) in 2017, Sixties Song, on to win the Japan Cup. There winner of the Gran Premio Latinoamericano, are also incentives for the King competed in the King George at Ascot. George winner depending on its finishing position in Tokyo. In 2018, there will be an invitation to the The JRA will provide transportation subsidies for invited winner of the Group One Gran Premio Carlos horses and their stable staff and business class flights for Pellegrini (San Isidro, Argentina) and the Owners, Trainers and Jockeys and respective partners. Group One Gran Premio Ensayo (Santiago, Chile) to run in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes, For the second time in 2018, Ascot will host the JRA’s with travel incentives offered by the South “Saddle Up For Japan” initiative on site on King George American racecourses and Ascot. Day. This sees a range of initiatives across the site to promote the country’s culture, cuisine and racing. GLOBAL SPRINT CHALLENGE Plans for the Global Sprint Challenge will be confirmed in due course. Above: Connections of Tepin receive the Queen Anne Trophy from QIPCO’s David Redvers and actress and model, Liz Hurley 8 9 LONGHOLES REHABILITATION AND “I consider Longholes to be the best- PRE-TRAINING CENTRE, NEWMARKET equipped centre in the UK in terms of the facilities and the expertise available to aid a Longholes provides the ideal environment to aid State-of-the-art rehabilitation • 2.5f oval all-weather track horse’s recovery and return to fitness. a racehorse’s rehabilitation and to recover fitness facilities include: • Two horse walkers and two lunge following an injury or to simply enjoy a well- • Aqua Icelandic Water Treadmill pens “Whether it be for the purposes of pre- earned break from training. • Two ECB Hydra Spas – Cold • Stabling for 80 horses, with a mix of training or rehabilitation, or simply giving Saltwater Hydro Therapy Units traditional and new boxes built to a horse a holiday, your horse is in the best of It is an ideal option for overseas horses having • Fluid Motion High Speed Treadmill ensure sufficient space, ventilation, hands at Longholes.