Polite reminder: The Neverland Peter Pan Drone show, originally on 4th April, has been postponed until 3rd October 2026. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Taking place on Monday 7th September and 24th August 2026 respectively, the Group 3 Winter Hill Stakes and Listed August Stakes are the most prestigious races within Royal Windsor's programme and deliver top-class performances year-on-year.
The Group 3 Winter Hill Stakes is run over 1m2f and is worth £95k total prize money. Recent winners of the race include multiple Group 1 winner Al Kazeem who holds the race record and the back-to-back winner for Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Fabricate. 2023's renewal saw Passenger take the win by a short head from West Wind Blows, who has subsequently placed second in two Group 1 races in Australia.
2024 saw William Haggas trained My Prospero do enough with Cieren Fallon on board. Fallon stole the show again in 2025 with Silawi, trained by Hamad Al Jehani, who went on to win the Group 1 Canadian International Stakes next time out.
Sir Michael Stoute is the winning-most trainer of the Group 3 Winter Hill Stakes, winning the last three renewals, taking Stoute's victories to nine in total. Frankie Dettori has held the winning-most jockey title since 2013, with a total of five wins since 1996.
The August Stakes, run on 24th August, was upgraded to a Listed race in 2004 and is run over 1m3f with an increased total prize pot of £60k for 2026. Previous winners of the race have gone on to Group success including Godolphin's Beautiful Romance, 2021 winner Teona who went on to win the Group 1 Prix Vermeille, and 2018's Desert Encounter who went on to Grade 1 success in Canada and took the Group 3 Winter Hill the following year. The 2025 winner was Arabian Crown for Charlie Appleby and Godolphin.
2026 sees the return of the ultra-competitive Fitzdares Sprint Series, with 10 qualifiers for the valuable £75k Final on in August.
The 10 Qualifiers range from Class 2s worth £30,000 to Class 3s worth £20,000 and are run over both 5f and 6f.
The first six qualifiers in the 2026 Fitzdares Sprint Series are:
11th May - Class 3, 6f12y, 4yo+ - £20,000
18th May - Class 2, 5f21y, 4yo+ - £30,000
25th May - Class 2, 6f12y, 4yo+ - £30,000
1st June - Class 3, 6f12y, 3yo - £20,000
8th June - Class 2, 5f21y, 3yo+ - £30,000
15th June - Class 3, 6f12y, 4yo+ - £20,000
The Berkshire Winter Million is our annual Jump Racing Festival in partnership with Ascot Racecourse running in mid January. There was a £1.25 million prize pot up for grabs in 2026 resulting in plenty of high class racing.
Feature races:
Royal Windsor Racecourse was delighted to host 4 of the 88 High Value Developmental Races across the UK for the 2025 Flat season.
The programme of races, designed primarily for two- and three-year-old horses at the beginning of their careers, offer enhanced prize money with the aim of supporting the domestic breeding industry and encouraging the purchase and racing of young talent in Britain.
Our 2025 High Value Developmental Races were as follows:
19th May - Class 2 Juddmonte EBF Restricted Maiden, 6f12y, 2yo - £40,000
19th May - Class 2 British EBF Maiden Fillies' Stakes, 1m, 3yo - £40,000
30th June - Class 2 British Stallion Studs EBF Novice Stakes, 1m, 3yo+
1st September - Class 2 Juddmonte EBF Restricted Maiden Stakes, 1m, 2yo - £30,000
