Royal Ascot Question

Canford Cliffs.

Blue Refrain - Windsor Castle/Jersey/Queen Anne

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How sad if everyone just asked Google.

Good morning penzance

Makes you realise how good canford cliffs was his Coventry performance was my favourite.

I wonder if the above poster had even tried. I put in the exact same question and it came up with nothing.

Thanks both. I should have remembered Canford Cliffs, but would never have come up with the second one.

Bayardo won the New Stakes (now the Norfolk) in 1908, the Prince of Wales (then a 1m5f race) in 1909, and the Gold Cup in 1910.

Form of the ace seems infatuated with "asking Google", conveniently forgetting that the info is often not on there and that there are a number of historians on here with private records and libraries who can get you the info faster, even if it is in some obscure corner of google.

Also it creates interest these sort of threads I spent some time looking back at canford cliffs career this morning very enjoyable,

Got the better of Goldikova in his Queen Anne.
Good race that was.

The prize should probably go to the 1872 Derby winner Cremorne, who won 7 races at Royal Ascot in 3 years, 2 of them walk-overs.

At 2, he won an 8-runner race on the Tuesday at 4/9 by 3 lengths and 'bad', in a canter. The following day he beat one rival at 1/20 by 10 in a canter.
At 3, he won a 4-runner race on the Wednesday at 1/7 by 4 lengths in a canter, then walked over on the Friday. This came after winning by a head at Epsom, then crossing the channel 11 days later to win the Grand Prix de Paris, the richest race in France, and surviving a hostile reception from the French, and a storm on the crossing coming back.

At 4, he walked over on the Tuesday, won the Gold Cup on the Thursday from 6 others at 8/11 by 8 lengths, then won the Alexandra Plate on the Friday over 3 miles.

Ged

Good stuff as usual from you,am I right in saying the mare stannera won twice at the same royal meeting back in the 80s or did she just run twice ?

Yes jimnast. She won the Prince Of Wales on the Tuesday, and the Hardwicke on the Friday. Brian Rouse rode her. He also rode Blue Refrain in his 3 Ascot wins.

I do remember blue refrain ged and knew he was an Ascot specialist but had not realised he won at 3 royal meetings ,

When mtoto won the prince of wales what day was that on ?

Brian rouse of course rode baronet

It was on the Tuesday, following the Queen Anne. He won it in '87 and '88. Richard Hills rode him the first year because Michael Roberts was banned. Roberts rode him the 2nd year, but picked up a ban when winning the Queen Anne on Waajib, having hit him 15 times and marked him.

Thanks ged I know I was there to see him back then I only went on the Tuesday ,but never remember the prince of wales been on a Tuesday but I suppose other than the 5 classics and the grand national name titles didn’t really mean much to me then.

I remember the day mtoto beat reference point in the eclipse a young west german girl was making her Wimbledon final debut not quite good enough that afternoon but came back and as they say the rest is history.

I think that was its 'traditional' position from the time it was (re-)introduced in 1968. I think I remember that Noel Murless had lobbied hard for the race to become part of Royal Ascot - because he had just the sort of horses who'd be suited by it. He won it in its first 3 years.