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King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes

Group 1 race
Location Ascot RacecourseAscot, England
Inaugurated 1951; 70 years ago (1951)
Race type Flat / Thoroughbred
Sponsor QIPCO
Website Ascot
Race information
Distance 1m 3f 211y (2,406 metres)
Surface Turf
Track Right-handed
Qualification Three-years-old and up
Weight 8 st 10 lb (3yo);9 st 7 lb (4yo+)Allowances3 lb for fillies and mares4 lb for S. Hemisphere 4yo
Purse £400,000 (2020)1st: £226,840

King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes

2020
     
Enable Sovereign Japan
Previous years
2019
     
Enable Crystal Ocean Waldgeist
2018
     
Poet's Word Crystal Ocean Coronet
2017
     
Enable Ulysses Idaho
2016
     
Highland Reel Wings of Desire Dartmouth
2015
     
Postponed Eagle Top Romsdal
2014
     
Taghrooda Telescope Mukhadram
2013
     
Novellist Trading Leather Hillstar
2012
     
Danedream Nathaniel St Nicholas Abbey
2011
     
Nathaniel Workforce St Nicholas Abbey
2010-2001
2010
     
Harbinger Cape Blanco Youmzain
2009
     
Conduit Tartan Bearer Ask
2008
     
Duke Of Marmalade Papal Bull Youmzain
2007
     
Dylan Thomas Youmzain Maraahel
2006
     
Hurricane Run Electrocutionist Heart's Cry
2005
     
Azamour Norse Dancer Bago
2004
     
Doyen Hard Buck Sulamani
2003
     
Alamshar Sulamani Kris Kin
2002
     
Golan Nayef Zindabad
2001
     
Galileo Fantastic Light Hightori
2000-1991
2000
     
Montjeu Fantastic Light Daliapour
1999
     
Daylami Nedawi Fruits of Love
1998
     
Swain High-Rise Royal Anthem
1997
     
Swain Pilsudski Helissio
1996
     
Pentire Classic Cliche Shaamit
1995
     
Lammtarra Pentire Strategic Choice
1994
     
King's Theatre White Muzzle Wagon Master
1993
     
Opera House White Muzzle Commander In Chief
1992
     
St Jovite Saddlers' Hall Opera House
1991
     
Generous Sanglamore Rock Hopper
1990-1981
1990
     
Belmez Old Vic Assatis
1989
     
Nashwan Cacoethes Top Class
1988
     
Mtoto Unfuwain Tony Bin
1987
     
Reference Point Celestial Storm Triptych
1986
     
Dancing Brave Shardari Triptych
1985
     
Petoski Oh So Sharp Rainbow Quest
1984
     
Teenoso Sadler's Wells Tolomeo
1983
     
Time Charter Diamond Shoal Sun Princess
1982
     
Kalaglow Assert Glint of Gold
1981
     
Shergar Madam Gay Fingal's Cave
1980-1971
1980
     
Ela-Mana-Mou Mrs Penny Gregorian
1979
     
Troy Gay Mecene Ela-Mana-Mou
1978
     
Ile de Bourbon Acamas Hawaiian Sound
1977
     
The Minstrel Orange Bay Exceller
1976
     
Pawneese Bruni Orange Bay
1975
     
Grundy Bustino Dahlia
1974
     
Dahlia Highclere Dankaro
1973
     
Dahlia Rheingold Our Mirage
1972
     
Brigadier Gerard Parnell Riverman
1971
     
Mill Reef Ortis Acclimatization
1970-1961
1970
     
Nijinsky Blakeney Crepellana
1969
     
Park Top Crozier Hogarth
1968
     
Royal Palace Felicio Topyo
1967
     
Busted Salvo Ribocco
1966
     
Aunt Edith Sodium Prominer
1965
     
Meadow Court Soderini Oncidium
1964
     
Nasram Santa Claus Royal Avenue
1963
     
Ragusa Miralgo Tarqogan
1962
     
Match Aurelius Arctic Storm
1961
     
Right Royal St. Paddy Rockavon
1960-1951
1960
     
Aggressor Petite Etoile Kythnos
1959
     
Alcide Gladness Balbo
1958
     
Ballymoss Almeria Doutelle
1957
     
Montaval Al Mabsoot Tribord
1956
     
Ribot High Veldt Todrai
1955
     
Vimy Acropolis Elopement
1954
     
Aureole Vamos Darius
1953
     
Pinza Aureole Worden
1952
     
Tulyar Gay Time Worden
1951
     
Supreme Court Zucchero Tantieme
 
Year Winner Age Jockey Trainer Owner Time
1951 Supreme Court 3 Charlie Elliott Evan Williams Vera Lilley 2:29.40
1952 Tulyar 3 Charlie Smirke Marcus Marsh HH Aga Khan III 2:33.00
1953 Pinza 3 Sir Gordon Richards Norman Bertie Sir Victor Sassoon 2:34.00
1954 Aureole 4 Eph Smith Cecil Boyd-Rochfort Queen Elizabeth II 2:44.00
1955 Vimy 3 Roger Poincelet Alec Head Pierre Wertheimer 2:33.76
1956 Ribot 4 Enrico Camici Ugo Penco Mario della Rocchetta 2:40.24
1957 Montaval 4 Freddie Palmer Georges Bridgland Ralph B. Strassburger 2:41.02
1958 Ballymoss 4 Scobie Breasley Vincent O'Brien John McShain 2:36.33
1959 Alcide 4 Harry Carr Cecil Boyd-Rochfort Sir Humphrey de Trafford 2:31.39
1960 Aggressor 5 Jimmy Lindley Towser Gosden Sir Harold Wernher 2:35.21
1961 Right Royal 3 Roger Poincelet Etienne Pollet Elisabeth Couturié 2:40.34
1962 Match 4 Yves Saint-Martin François Mathet François Dupré 2:32.02
1963 Ragusa 3 Garnie Bougoure Paddy Prendergast Jim Mullion 2:33.80
1964 Nasram 4 Bill Pyers Ernie Fellows Mrs Howell Jackson 2:33.15
1965 Meadow Court 3 Lester Piggott Paddy Prendergast Bell / McMahon / Crosby 2:33.27
1966 Aunt Edith 4 Lester Piggott Noel Murless John Hornung 2:35.06
1967 Busted 4 George Moore Noel Murless Stanhope Joel 2:33.64
1968 Royal Palace 4 Sandy Barclay Noel Murless Jim Joel 2:33.22
1969 Park Top 5 Lester Piggott Bernard van Cutsem 11th Duke of Devonshire 2:32.46
1970 Nijinsky 3 Lester Piggott Vincent O'Brien Charles Engelhard 2:36.16
1971 Mill Reef 3 Geoff Lewis Ian Balding Paul Mellon 2:32.56
1972 Brigadier Gerard 4 Joe Mercer Dick Hern Jean Hislop 2:32.91
1973 Dahlia 3 Bill Pyers Maurice Zilber Nelson Bunker Hunt 2:30.43
1974 Dahlia 4 Lester Piggott Maurice Zilber Nelson Bunker Hunt 2:33.03
1975 Grundy 3 Pat Eddery Peter Walwyn Carlo Vittadini 2:26.98
1976 Pawneese 3 Yves Saint-Martin Angel Penna, Sr. Daniel Wildenstein 2:29.36
1977 The Minstrel 3 Lester Piggott Vincent O'Brien Robert Sangster 2:30.48
1978 Ile de Bourbon 3 John Reid Fulke Johnson Houghton David McCall 2:30.53
1979 Troy 3 Willie Carson Dick Hern Sobell / Weinstock 2:33.75
1980 Ela-Mana-Mou 4 Willie Carson Dick Hern Simon Weinstock 2:35.39
1981 Shergar 3 Walter Swinburn Michael Stoute HH Aga Khan IV 2:35.40
1982 Kalaglow 4 Greville Starkey Guy Harwood Tony Ward 2:31.88
1983 Time Charter 4 Joe Mercer Henry Candy Robert Barnett 2:30.79
1984 Teenoso 4 Lester Piggott Geoff Wragg Eric Moller 2:27.95
1985 Petoski 3 Willie Carson Dick Hern Lady Beaverbrook 2:27.61
1986 Dancing Brave 3 Pat Eddery Guy Harwood Khalid Abdullah 2:29.49
1987 Reference Point 3 Steve Cauthen Henry Cecil Louis Freedman 2:34.63
1988 Mtoto 5 Michael Roberts Alec Stewart Ahmed Al Maktoum 2:37.33
1989 Nashwan 3 Willie Carson Dick Hern Hamdan Al Maktoum 2:32.27
1990 Belmez 3 Michael Kinane Henry Cecil Sheikh Mohammed 2:30.76
1991 Generous 3 Alan Munro Paul Cole Prince Fahd bin Salman 2:28.99
1992 St Jovite 3 Stephen Craine Jim Bolger Virginia Kraft Payson 2:30.85
1993 Opera House 5 Michael Roberts Michael Stoute Sheikh Mohammed 2:33.94
1994 King's Theatre 3 Michael Kinane Henry Cecil Sheikh Moh'd / Poland 2:28.92
1995 Lammtarra 3 Frankie Dettori Saeed bin Suroor Saeed bin M. Al Maktoum 2:31.01
1996 Pentire 4 Michael Hills Geoff Wragg Mollers Racing 2:28.11
1997 Swain 5 John Reid Saeed bin Suroor Godolphin 2:36.45
1998 Swain 6 Frankie Dettori Saeed bin Suroor Godolphin 2:29.06
1999 Daylami 5 Frankie Dettori Saeed bin Suroor Godolphin 2:29.35
2000 Montjeu 4 Michael Kinane John Hammond Michael Tabor 2:29.98
2001 Galileo 3 Michael Kinane Aidan O'Brien Magnier / Tabor 2:27.71
2002 Golan 4 Kieren Fallon Michael Stoute Exors of Lord Weinstock 2:29.70
2003 Alamshar 3 Johnny Murtagh John Oxx HH Aga Khan IV 2:33.26
2004 Doyen 4 Frankie Dettori Saeed bin Suroor Godolphin 2:33.18
2005 Azamour 4 Michael Kinane John Oxx HH Aga Khan IV 2:28.26
2006 Hurricane Run 4 Christophe Soumillon André Fabre Michael Tabor 2:30.29
2007 Dylan Thomas 4 Johnny Murtagh Aidan O'Brien Magnier / Tabor 2:31.11
2008 Duke of Marmalade 4 Johnny Murtagh Aidan O'Brien Magnier / Tabor 2:27.91
2009 Conduit 4 Ryan Moore Michael Stoute Ballymacoll Stud 2:28.73
2010 Harbinger 4 Olivier Peslier Michael Stoute Highclere ""Admiral Rous"" 2:26.78
2011 Nathaniel 3 William Buick John Gosden Lady Rothschild 2:35.07
2012 Danedream 4 Andrasch Starke Peter Schiergen Burg Eberstein / Yoshida 2:31.62
2013 Novellist 4 Johnny Murtagh Andreas Wohler Christoph Berglar 2:24.60
2014 Taghrooda 3 Paul Hanagan John Gosden Hamdan Al Maktoum 2:28.13
2015 Postponed 4 Andrea Atzeni Luca Cumani Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum 2:31.25
2016 Highland Reel 4 Ryan Moore Aidan O'Brien Magnier / Tabor/ Smith 2:28.97
2017 Enable 3 Frankie Dettori John Gosden Khalid Abdullah 2:36.22
2018 Poet's Word 5 James Doyle Michael Stoute Saeed Suhail 2:25.84
2019 Enable 5 Frankie Dettori John Gosden Khalid Abdullah 2:32.42
2020 Enable 6 Frankie Dettori John Gosden Khalid Abdullah 2:28.92
Patrick Cobb