Interesting Facts About the Royal Ascot Meeting


  • Lobsters live in fear of the Royal Ascot meeting, with 11,000 of these crustaceans consumed over the course of the meeting. The lobsters are washed down by a staggering 185,000 bottles of champagne.
  • The Prince of Wales’s Stakes and the Golden Jubilee Stakes offer the biggest prize funds of the Royal Meeting, with £375,000 on offer in each race.
  • A strict dress code is enforced in the Royal Enclosure during the Royal Ascot meeting. Men are required to attend the festival wearing morning dress and top hats while women are not allowed to wear sleeveless dresses or bare their stomachs.
  • The Royal Enclosure is a relatively recent construction at Ascot racecourse. The Royalty decided to separate themselves from the unwashed masses in the 1930s after a sailor by the name of Dennis Collins demonstrated his displeasure with the crown by lobbing a rock at William IV.
  • The Royal Ascot meeting is the best attended racing event in the United Kingdom, with over 300,000 racing fans attending the five days of racing every year.
  • The most recent round of refurbishments at Ascot racecourse cost over £200 million, and resulted in the construction of the a futuristic grandstand which had to be renovated almost immediately to increase capacity.
  • The Royal Ascot meeting features 6 of the 31 Group One races run in England every year, rivalling the tally of Group One races held at Newmarket.
  • Ladies Day is the most important day of the Royal Ascot meeting and draws the biggest crowds. Apart from featuring the Ascot Gold Cup, Ladies Day has grown into a significant fashion and social event in its own right.
  • For more than two centuries the Royal Meeting was the only event hosted at the Ascot racecourse. During the 1930s additional races were added to the racecourse schedule, and today Ascot racecourse even hosts some of the most prestigious national hunt races.
  • Ascot racecourse features some of the most demanding racetracks in flat racing. The course is notorious for the gradient of the climb to the finishing post, with 73 feet separating the highest and lowest points of the racecourse.
  • The third day of the Royal Ascot meeting begins with a royal procession as the Royal Family ride alongside the grandstand in a horse-drawn carriage.

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Royal Ascot Day One Races
Queen Anne Stakes
Kings Stand Stakes
St James Palace Stakes
Coventry Stakes
Ascot Stakes
Windsor Castle Stakes
Royal Ascot Day Two Races
Jersey Stakes
Windsor Forest Stakes
Prince of Wales Stakes
Royal Hunt Cup
Queen Mary Stakes
Sandringham Stakes
Royal Ascot Day Three Races
Norfolk Stakes
Ribblesdale Stakes
Ascot Gold Cup
Britannia Stakes
Hampton Court Stakes
King George V Stakes
Royal Ascot Day Four Races
Albany Stakes
King Edward VII Stakes
Coronation Stakes
Wolferton Handicap Stakes
Queens Vase
Buckingham Palace Stakes
Royal Ascot Day Five Races
Chesham Stakes
Hardwicke Stakes
Golden Jubilee Stakes
Wokingham Stakes
Duke of Edinburgh Stakes
Queen Alexandra Stakes
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