Ascot Queen Elizabeth II Stakes Meeting 2007

The Ascot Queen Elizabeth II Stakes Meeting gets under way on Friday 28th September with the centre piece being the £200,000 Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes for 3 yo’s + over the one mile round course on Saturday 29th. The Saturday card has two supporting Group races with the £200,000 Group 1 Fillies Mile for 2 yo fillies and the £125,000 Group 2 Royal Lodge Stakes for 2 yo’s over one mile. As usual Aidan O’Brien has a strong hand in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes with George Washington going for back to back wins. Perhaps he can get his first win of the season. He was a super winner of the race last year. The race is always won by a top class miler as can be seen from previous winners from past years. The race was first run in 1955 and I have collated all the winners since 1959 at the end of the blog for those who want to go down memory lane.

Of course it was Saturday’s card in 1996 that Frankie Dettori rode all seven winners. The accumulator odds on the seven winners came to 25095/1 and broke quite a few bookmakers.

Andre Fabre sends over the 1000 Guineas favourite Proviso for the Fillies Mile. It will be interesting to see how good she is.

There are two Group races on the Sunday with the £90,000 Group 2 Diadem Stakes, a sprint for 3 yo’s+ over 6 furlongs and the £50,000 Group 3 Cumberland Lodge Stakes for 3 yo’s+ over one and half miles. Young Mick who won the Cumberland Lodge last year makes his seasonal reappearance in this race. Balthazaar’s Gift from the in form Luca Cumani stable will be an interesting runner in the Diadem Stakes. For the racecards with the runners and riders go to the sporting life.

Now here are those previous winners of the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes since 1959.

1959 Rosalba, 1960 Sovereign Path (run at Newbury), 1961 Le Levanstell, 1962 Romulus, 1963 The Creditor (run at Newbury again), 1964 Linacre, 1965 Derring-Do, 1966 Hill Rise, 1967 Reform, 1968 World Cup, 1969 Jimmy Reppin, 1970 Welsh Pageant, 1971 Brigadier Gerard, 1972 Brigadier Gerard, 1973 Jan Ekels, 1974 No Meeting (as heavy rain waterlogged course), 1975 Rose Bowl, 1976 Rose Bowl, 1977 Trusted, 1978 Homing, 1979 Kris, 1980 Known Fact, 1981 To-Agori-Mou, 1982 Buzzards Bay, 1983 Sackford, 1984 Teleprompter, 1985 Shadeed, 1986 Sure Blade, 1987 Milligram, 1988 Warning, 1989 Zilzal, 1990 Mark of Distinction, 1991 Selkirk, 1992 Lahib, 1993 Bigstone, 1994 Maroof, 1995 Bahri, 1996 Mark of Esteem, 1997 Air Express, 1998 Desert Prince, 1999 Dubai Millennium, 2000 Observatory, 2001 Summoner, 2002 Where or When, 2003 Falbrav, 2004 Rakti, 2005 Starcraft, 2006 George Washington.

For all the runners and riders with the jockey's colours go to Paddy Power and click on "Horse Racing".