The Guineas

Guineas Festival 2023: Garden Party Picnic Enclosure to Celebrate Coronation Weekend

Newmarket Racecourse will host a one-off spectacular celebration on the first weekend in May, when the three-day QIPCO Guineas Festival will coincide with the Coronation of King Charles III. The celebrations are focused on being affordable in a year when many families’ finances are under pressure, and will include initiatives relating to the environment as […]

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Guineas Festival 2023: Race to be named after first UK woman to hold training licence

Guineas Festival 2023: A forgotten racehorse trainer who was the first woman in the UK to be issued with a training licence in 1886 is to have a race at The QIPCO Guineas Festival renamed in her honour, The Jockey Club has announced. Ellen Chaloner has lain in an unmarked grave in Newmarket Cemetery since

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Guineas Festival 2020: 13 In the Running for Racing Welfare’s Best Turned Out

Racing Welfare’s Best Turned Out, supported by Betfair, will see the charity award the BTO prize in the Group 3 Palace House Stakes at Newmarket on Saturday 6th June.  The race has been named the ‘Betfair Supports Racing Welfare Palace House Stakes’ in recognition of the initiative.  Racing Welfare’s Best Turned Out aims to champion the

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GUINEAS FESTIVAL: An All-time Classic – Frankel in 2011

As we approach Newmarket’s 2,000 Guineas of 2020 – postponed from May due to Covid-19 and now to be held on 6th June – we look back on one of the most extraordinary moments of the Classic, in 2011, when Frankel surged up the field with a seemingly impossible lead… Our reporter Sara Waterson was

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How to win the Guineas: by Ryan Moore

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Ryan Moore, winner of both the QIPCO 2,000 Guineas and 1,000 Guineas in 2015, and the 1,000 Guineas again in 2016, stars in this QIPCO British Champions Series video on how to win the famous Newmarket Classics. Using a Jockey Cam on Ryan, as well

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10 Great Winners of the 2,000 Guineas

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.76″ background_layout=”light” border_style=”solid”] The first Classic of the season – the QIPCO 2,000 Guineas – also launches the British Champions Series each year. Here, we take a quick look back at 10 great winners of the 2,000 Guineas: 1.     1947 TUDOR MINSTREL Trainer: Fred Darling Jockey: Gordon Richards Owner: Arthur

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Guineas Festival 2016

Guineas Festival 2016: Henry Birtles launches Newmarket celebrations with new poem

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Guineas Festival 2016: This year Newmarket and its Racecourses celebrate the landmark of 350 years of making history; an anniversary which highlights the development of the internationally acclaimed Home of Horseracing since 1666. The official launch of this very important birthday will take place over

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Guineas Festival 2016: Fun for all the family

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] The QIPCO Guineas Festival 2016 not only has high class racing on offer, there is a whole host of free activities for all the family to enjoy with children under 18 being admitted FREE. This year, 2016, is very important for Newmarket, celebrating 350 years of making

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Guineas Festival 2015: Discover Newmarket

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Racegoers at the QIPCO Guineas Festival will be able to gain an insight into all that Newmarket has to offer by visiting the Discover Newmarket Exhibition. Allison GrahamAllison is the Publisher of Eclipse Magazine. She loves going to the Races and is learning to bet (despite being officially the worst

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