Feature Races

Regal Reality

Winter Hill & August Stakes 

Taking place on the last Saturday in August, 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 £60k total prize money. Recent winners of the race include multiple Group 1 winner Al Kazeem and the back-to-back winner for Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Fabricate. 

Sir Michael Stoute became the winning-most trainer of the Group 3 Winter Hill Stakes when Regal Reality won the 2022 renewal under Richard Kingscote, taking Stoute's victories to 8 in total. Frankie Dettori has held the winning-most jockey title since 2013, with a total of 5 wins since 1996. 

The August Stakes was upgraded to a Listed race in 2004 and is run over 1m3f with a total prize pot of £45k. 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.  

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Fitzdares Sprint Series

2023 sees the return of the ultra-competitive Fitzdares Sprint Series, with 10 qualifiers for the valuable £75k Final on the 7th August throughout the summer:

May: 15th, 22nd, 29th 

June: 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th

July: 3rd, 17th, 24th

The 10 Qualifiers range from Class 2s worth £30,000 to Class 4s worth £10,800 and are run over both 5f and 6f. 

Racing League - Windsor

Racing League

The team competition heads to Windsor for Race Week 3 on Thursday 17 August.  

What is the Racing League? 

7 teams compete 42 races over 6 meetings for over £2m prize money in the summer. 

Each team enter two runners per race in 7 races per meeting. Races are run over the following distances: 5f, 6f, 1m, 1m2f and 1m3f.

Class/rating bands for 2023 are yet to be confirmed.

Find out more about Racing League here.

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BHA Developmental Races - Snuggle

BHA Developmental Races

4 Novice/Maiden Development Races will take place in 2023 with a minimum value of £30,000 for Class 2 races:

£30,000 Maiden (Class 2) 6f, 3yo 

£40,000 Darley Maiden Fillies’ Stakes (Class 2) 1m 3yo

£40,000 Darley Novice Stakes (Class 2) 1m, 3yo+ 

£30,000 Juddmonte British Stallion Studs EBF Restricted Novice Stakes (Class 2) 1m, 2yo 

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