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Royal Ascot 2000 Tuesday 16th - Saturday 20th June 2015 MEDIA GUIDE Index 2-3. WELCOME TO ROYAL ASCOT FROM HER MAJESTY’S REPRESENTATIVE 4. NEW GROUP ONE COMMONWEALTH CUP TO BE RUN AT ROYAL ASCOT 5. RACE PROGRAMME & VALUES – 2014 v 2015 6. FIRST ROYAL ASCOT RACECOURSE ECONOMIC IMPACT REPORT PUBLISHED 7. £33 MILLION FASHION SPEND GENERATED BY ASCOT RACECOURSE REVEALED AT STYLE GUIDE LAUNCH 8. ASCOT ON THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE AND THE GLOBAL SPRINT CHALLENGE – GLOBAL SPRINT CHALLENGE RACES 9. CHROME AND FRIEND HEAD INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGERS 10-11. FRANKEL DOCUMENTARY TO LAUNCH CHANNEL 4’S ROYAL ASCOT COVERAGE 11-12. ROYAL ASCOT TV – UK BROADCASTERS AT ROYAL ASCOT 13. VETERINARY FACILTIES, EQUINE & JOCKEYS’ WELFARE – RESERVES 14. THE QUEEN AND ROYAL ASCOT 15. QIPCO HOLDING: OFFICIAL PARTNER AT ASCOT AND SPONSORS OF THE BRITISH CHAMPIONS SERIES 16. GIGASET – NEW OFFICIAL PARTNER 17-18. ASCOT’S OFFICIAL SPONSORS AND SUPPLIERS 19-21. ROYAL ASCOT DRESS CODE AND STYLE GUIDE 22. THE ROYAL ASCOT COLLECTIVE 23. ASCOT STORIES AND OTHER PROMOTIONAL FILMS TWITTER - #LIKENOWHEREELSE 24. ROYAL ASCOT FACTS AND FIGURES 25-26. FINE DINING AT ROYAL ASCOT WITH SEVEN MICHELIN STARS 27-29. ASCOT – ITS HISTORY AND TRADITIONS 30-33. ASCOT RACECOURSE KEY DATES 34-38. RACE HISTORIES AND CONDITIONS 39. SECURITY AND CONFORT FOR RESIDENTS AND VISITORS 40-42. DID YOU KNOW…? 43-44. THE ASCOT BOARD, MEDIA & RACING CONTACTS, ACCREDITATION & SERVICES 1 WELCOME TO ROYAL ASCOT FROM HER MAJESTY’S REPRESENTATIVE Welcome to Royal Ascot 2015. Over five wonderful days, we will celebrate and enjoy the finest horseracing in the world. The racecourse was founded more than 300 years ago and the great champions of the thoroughbred breed have been tested and proven here over those three centuries. Royal Ascot is an engaging experience which is always about much more than horseracing. Many elements of fun and excitement will unite this week to make it an experience truly like no other for the 300,000 people expected to attend. Our programme of races is always evolving, as we strive to provide sport at its most compelling. For the first time, prize money this week will top £5.5m. Following a review of the sprinting programme in Europe, a new championship six furlong sprint for three-year-olds, the Commonwealth Cup, has been put into the Royal Ascot programme. The first running of this exciting race is on Friday. This brings the number of Group One events – the best races in the world – run at Royal Ascot to eight, which is almost a quarter of all the Group One races run in Britain each year. It is remarkable to reflect on how much the race programme at Royal Ascot, and indeed at Ascot Racecourse generally, has developed. At the end of the last millennium, there were just three Group One races run at Royal Ascot – the Gold Cup, St James's Palace Stakes and Coronation Stakes. Since then, the Prince of Wales's Stakes, the Queen Anne Stakes, the Diamond Jubilee Stakes, the King’s Stand Stakes and our new Commonwealth Cup have all attained that elite mark. The quality of the racing at Royal Ascot has increased consistently for two decades, and now this week is the most important race meeting in the world, attracting the best competitors from around the globe. A win at Royal Ascot confers the highest of reputations. We have seen the likes of Black Caviar and Animal Kingdom travel from Australia and the USA respectively in recent years, and we have been doing all we can during the last twelve months to attract champions from Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, the USA and from all over Europe. We also continue to enhance the facilities at the racecourse and I was delighted last year with the improvements made to the Silver Ring. In the Grandstand, we opened our new “On5” Restaurant and in 2015 we have fully renovated our world class Parade Ring Restaurant. It’s not just the horses that must be fed and watered to the highest standards! Fine dining, like fashion at Royal Ascot, is synonymous with the event and this year, Michelin- starred chefs Raymond Blanc, Michael Caines, Phil Howard and Angela Hartnett will be working with us. 2 Royal Ascot is British racing’s window to the world and I would like to thank Channel 4 for their excellent coverage over the past two years. They have captured the unique flavour of this event brilliantly. I would also like to thank other broadcasters taking our meeting around the world, including Channel 7 in Australia who will be showing several full days live on their terrestrial network. Our sincere thanks go to QIPCO, Official Partners at Ascot through the year, including at the Royal Meeting, and also as sponsors of the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes in July and of QIPCO British Champions Day in October – a day which itself has grown from staging two Group One races when it began in 2011, to four this year. Joining QIPCO as an Official Partner this year is telecommunications brand, Gigaset, who also become “Official Consumer Electronics Partner” of the racecourse. We very much look forward to working with them to raise awareness of their upcoming smartphone portfolio throughout the years ahead. Our objective at Royal Ascot is to have the best racing in the world, featuring the best racehorses on the planet over five astonishing days of pageantry, fashion, excitement and fun. I would like to welcome all our friends from the media, from home and abroad, and I hope that our show lives up to your expectations. Johnny Weatherby Her Majesty’s Representative 3 NEW GROUP ONE COMMONWEALTH CUP TO BE RUN AT ROYAL ASCOT Following an extensive review of the European sprinting programme, a new Group One six furlong race, the Commonwealth Cup, has been added to the Royal Ascot programme this year. What becomes the eighth Group One race at Royal Ascot, open to three-year-old colts, geldings and fillies, will be run for £375,000 on the Friday card, replacing the Buckingham Palace Stakes – it is felt that six race cards preserve quality and fit best at Royal Ascot. The Wolferton Stakes has been moved from Friday to Saturday with the Duke of Edinburgh Handicap transferred the other way, to ensure a competitive handicap is run as the fifth race on each day of Royal Ascot. Nick Smith, Head of Communications and International Racing at Ascot, said: “Many discussions took place with the British Horseracing Authority and European Pattern Committee to address the decline in quality of European sprinters. “As a result, we are very pleased to be able to stage what we hope will now become a significant new option for three-year-old sprinters at Royal Ascot before they go on to compete against their elders in the Darley July Cup and beyond. “As part of the overall programme and to deliver the necessary end of season championship race in Europe at six furlongs, the QIPCO British Champions Sprint in October has been promoted to Group One. This brings the number of top level races run at Ascot annually to 13. “In order to maximise the field for the new Royal Ascot sprint, the Diamond Jubilee Stakes is closed to three-year-olds going forward. Importantly for us, this won’t have significant adverse effect on our overseas promotion of this race as southern hemisphere three-year-olds are counted as four-year-olds in the northern hemisphere. Equally, the sprinters we attract from Hong Kong, Japan, America and such like have almost always been older horses. “The King’s Stand Stakes remains open to three-year-olds as this is quite a different test to the stiff six furlongs at Ascot and all parties felt that three-year-olds should still have this option. “Longer term, we are looking to attract horses that have run in championship two-year-old races in Australia like the Blue Diamond and the Golden Slipper to the Commonwealth Cup, as they are counted as three-year-olds in the northern hemisphere at Royal Ascot. “We think the Commonwealth Cup has significant potential and were delighted, in year one of the new venture, to receive two entries for Australian two-year-olds, under the care of Gai Waterhouse and John O’Shea. Wesley Ward, for the USA, entered three northern hemisphere three-year-olds.” Royal Ascot prize money increases this year to £5,585,000 from £5,310,000 and a full running order is reproduced on the following page – all 30 races are live on Channel 4 and Racing UK. 4 Tuesday 17th June 2014 Tuesday 16th June 2015 The Queen Anne Stakes (Group 1) £375,000 The Queen Anne Stakes (Group 1) £375,000 The Coventry Stakes (Group 2) £120,000 The Coventry Stakes (Group 2) £120,000 The King’s Stand Stakes (Group 1) £375,000 The King’s Stand Stakes (Group 1) £375,000 The St James’s Palace Stakes (Group 1) £375,000 The St James’s Palace Stakes (Group 1) £375,000 The Ascot Stakes (Handicap) £60,000 The Ascot Stakes (Handicap) £60,000 The Windsor Castle Stakes (Listed) £60,000 The Windsor Castle Stakes (Listed) £60,000 Wednesday 18th June 2014 Wednesday 17th June 2015 The Jersey Stakes (Group 3) £75,000 The Jersey Stakes (Group 3) £75,000 The Queen Mary Stakes (Group 2) £100,000 The Queen Mary Stakes (Group 2) £100,000 The Prince of Wales’s Stakes (Group 1) £525,000 The Duke of Cambridge Stakes (Group 2) £135,000 The Duke of Cambridge Stakes (Group 2) £135,000 The Prince of Wales’s Stakes (Group 1) £525,000 The Royal Hunt Cup (Heritage Handicap) £175,000 The Royal Hunt Cup (Heritage Handicap) £175,000 The Sandringham Stakes (Listed) The Sandringham Stakes (Listed) (Handicap) £70,000 £70,000 (Handicap) Thursday 19th June 2014 Thursday 18th June 2015 The Norfolk Stakes (Group 2) £80,000 The Norfolk Stakes
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