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SPOT THE DIFFERENCE DESIGN YOUR OWN PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER JOCKEY SILKS Can you spot ten differences in this Royal Ascot image? Check your answers at the end of this pack. Use coloured pens, crayons or paint to create your own design. 8 Use your sticky-tape or craft glue to stick one large and two small tissue flowers to the top side of your cardboard doughnut. Then stick the second large flower underneath the doughnut so it matches the top. Your Royal Ascot hat is finished! Feel free to customise your creation by adding more tissue flowers or painting your cardboard brim instead. GUESS THESE ICONIC AT HOME RACES WHICH ROYAL ASCOT RACE ROYAL ASCOT LANDMARKS SHOULD YOU ENTER? Get active and test your athletic abilities with these special races you can do at home. Below you will find images showing a section of six iconic landmarks you can Answer the questions and find out below! find at Ascot Racecourse. Unscramble the letters to discover what they are. OU KN Y O Check your answers in the Activities Answer Pack. FURLONG RACE D W I ? D A furlong is A furlong is approximately 200 metres. Find somewhere you can run the distance of When was the first Gold Cup Who is the only reigning safely, measure out 20 metres and see how quickly you can run it. measurement used 1 run at Ascot? 2 monarch to to have owned the 1 2 3 Multiply your time by 10 and compare your result to some of the famous to dictate how long races are. There are winner of the Ascot Gold Cup? racehorses to have recently won at Royal Ascot. eight furlongs in a A 1807 mile. A Queen Elizabeth II B 1907 Name Stradivarius Crystal Ocean Blue Point B Queen Victoria 2007 C C King George VI Picture At what time does the Royal In which direction do the horses 4 Average speed 3 Procession begin each day of 13.54 seconds 13.03 seconds 11.90 seconds race at Ascot Racecourse? ’ per furlong Royal Ascot? N W I G N N I O E N S E V R I S G The Prince of The Diamond The Gold Cup A Clockwise A 1pm N S B T A D D A N Race Wales’s Stakes Jubilee Stakes T S P O A T E G 2019 2019 2019 B 2pm B Anti-clockwise 4 5 6 C 3pm Which jockey won an incredible What are the ceremonial 5 nine races at Royal Ascot 2015? 6 guards for the monarch at EGG AND SPOON RACE Royal Ascot known as? A Frankie Dettori You will need: 1. Measure out 5 metres and mark with your course markers. A Greencoats • A tape measure Ryan Moore 2. Stand at one marker, place your egg on your spoon B B Redcoats • 2 course markers and put your other hand behind your back. C Oisin Murphy (e.g. cones or sticks) C Tophats 3. Can you run to the end of the course and back without • A spoon dropping your egg? If you drop it, return to the beginning and A K F E R L N • A hard boiled egg R T S D G N A D N A O I P D M U start again! U T S A E T (you could also use a golf or ping pong ball!) WORDSEARCH JOCKEY KIT RACE MAKING THE FLOWERS Gold Cup Trainer Afternoon Tea Summer Sprinter Royal Procession Top Hat Tradition Greencoats Stalls Test your maths skills and see if you can find a You will need to make two large and two small tissue fl owers. Flower Wall Bandstand Fashion Grandstand Straight Mile DID YOU KNOW? group of items that add up to 5.5kg, the weight of Repeat steps 4 to 7 to make each fl ower. Millinery Picnic Fine Dining Furlong Sovereign’s Gate Carrying their kit, jockeys must weigh in a jockey’s kit. How quickly you can get them onto Racehorse Saddle Thoroughbred Silks Swinley Bottom before and after each race in order to ensure your kitchen scales? Cut out ten 15cm x 20cm rectangles from one colour tissue paper and Jockey Parade Ring British Stayer Bowler Hats that the race is fairly run. 3 ten 10cm x 20cm rectangles from the other colour tissue paper. Item Weight T Y G R A CHILDREN’SN D S T A N D H Z D W N E M Y ACTIVITY PACK D A M C T D E R G F S U M M E R F L O E 4 5 I R O Y A L P R O C E S S I O N I I Z K F D G Y A F T E R N O O N T E A N M I C W A V I S A D B A N D S T A N D E T K O D E S E G W A P M G P D N N W X D H F J A jockey’s kit includes: M G T H S S I N H Y R A B Z A M I G F C 1. Silks: 1/2lb 5. Weight cloth: 2lb I X V A I R R N A I Z E R Y J X N I U Y 2. Saddle: 6lbs 6. Bib: 1/4lb Stack fi ve rectangles of the same size neatly on Tie tightly in the middle with your thread. L Q C C G O O G L S S T E A V S I A R U top of one another, and then accordion-fold evenly 3. Breeches: 1/4lb 7. Lead: 1lb L E X D H S N H D E T J A N D F N R L G along the longer edge. 4. Boots: 2lb That’s a total of 12lb, I G D U F P N G E G Y A R H C E G T O M about 5.5 kg. N S T A L L S G R C R B H E P O R S N W 6 7 E H S I T I R B I T A E O R T O A I G V R O C V K S U A T E Y R N T E N T T N B Y T R A D I T I O N R J A I T L I A S G ROYAL ASCOT LEGENDS RACE D T H O R O U G H B R E D W A O W R Z T 1. Pick the name of a Royal Ascot legend from the list Z R G F C I N C I P E N V T D R M O P T opposite or choose your favourite racehorse. ROYAL ASCOT LEGENDS: E N U F L O W E R W A L L O B W T D B S 2. Racing against another member of your household, Yeats Stradivarius Cut the ends to round the corners of the tissue. Gently tease open your tissue so each layer find items from around your home starting with each F C T W C O H S A D D L E V S T A Y E R Frankel Black Caviar is ‘fl uff ed’. letter in the horse’s name. I T P U C D L O G K F S K L I S T Y E K Estimate Lady Aurelia 3. The first person to collect all their items wins! 4 5 Where do the jockeys mount their Where does the winning horse 7 horses before the race? 8 go after finishing the race? The Winners’ Enclosure 5cm A The Parade Ring A B The Racecourse B The Champion’s Stable C The Grandstand C The Victory Run Curl the rectangle into a cylinder until the Place the crown on your second piece of card and short ends meet each other with a 2cm overlap. draw around the edge. You could use a compass, Glue or tape to hold together. This is your top but freestyle works too! Remove the crown and 9 After racing each evening, where Who is the only horse to have won hat crown. draw another circle 5cm bigger around this one. do racegoers go for an unmissable 10 The Gold Cup four times? This is your brim. For a stiffer brim, draw a smaller singalong of British classics? circle or for a floppier brim, a bigger one. A Stradivarius A The Grandstand B Yeats 6 7 B The Winning Post C Estimate C The Bandstand HOW MANY QUESTIONS brim ring top of crown DID YOU GET RIGHT? Cut out the larger circle and then the inner Next, take the cylinder crown, and place into the circle. These are the ring for your brim and the brim ring, ensuring the flaps go under the brim top of the crown. and outwards. Stick these to the brim using glue Check your answers at the back of this pack to find out or tape. which Royal Ascot race you should enter. 8 The flaps at the top should now be folding inwards. Place the remaining circle on top and secure with 0-2 3-5 6-8 9-10 glue or tape. Use scissors to trim any overhang if it doesn’t align perfectly.

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