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. #RoyalAscot #RoyalAscot 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 Lord North Hello Youmzain B Queen Victoria 2007 C C King George VI Picture In which direction do the horses What time is the first race Average speed 3 4 13.63 seconds 12.56 seconds 12.23 seconds race at Ascot Racecourse? on each day of Royal Ascot? ’ per furlong N W I G N N I O E N S E V R I S G The Prince of The Diamond A 11.30am The Gold Cup A Clockwise N S B T A D D A N Race Wales’s Stakes Jubilee Stakes T S P O A T E G 2020 B 2.30pm 2020 2020 B Anti-clockwise C 4.30pm 4 5 6 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!) #RoyalAscot #RoyalAscot #RoyalAscot 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 flowers. 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 flower. 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 five 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 set a timer for five minutes and find items from around F C T W C O H S A D D L E V S T A Y E R Frankel Black Caviar is ‘fluffed’. your home starting with the same letter as your horse’s Estimate Lady Aurelia I T P U C D L O G K F S K L I S T Y E K name. 3. When the five minutes is up the person who collects the most items wins! #RoyalAscot #RoyalAscot #RoyalAscot 4 5 7 Where do the jockeys mount their 8 Where does the winning horse GUESS THESE ICONIC horses before the race? go after finishing the race? ROYAL ASCOT LANDMARKS The Winners’ Enclosure 5cm A The Parade Ring A B The Racecourse B The Champion’s Stable Below you will find images showing a section of six iconic landmarks you can find at Ascot Racecourse. Unscramble the letters to discover what they are. The Victory Run C The Grandstand C Check your answers in the Activities Answer Pack. 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, 1 2 3 Glue or tape to hold together. This is your top but freestyle works too! Remove the crown and What is the longest race at Who is the only horse to have won hat crown. draw another circle 5cm bigger around this one. 9 Royal Ascot? 10 The Gold Cup four times? This is your brim. For a stiffer brim, draw a smaller circle or for a floppier brim, a bigger one. A The Queen Alexandra Stakes A Stradivarius 6 7 B The Buckingham Palace Stakes B Yeats C The Windsor Castle Stakes C Estimate HOW MANY QUESTIONS ’ brim ring top of crown N W I G N N I O E N S E V R I S G DID YOU GET RIGHT? N S B T A D D A N T S P O A T E G Cut out the larger circle and then the inner Next, take the cylinder crown, and place into the circle.