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Champions Meeting
Newmarket
This three day meetings offers the very best in Flat racing. The focal point is Champions Day, which boasts six Group races and more than £1m in prize-money.
This is as good as it gets in a single day’s racing, attracting the international cream of the crop for a grand finale as the European season nears its close.
The Emirates Airline Champion Stakes is the main event. It is the last European Group 1 race of the year over a mile and a quarter and always attracts a top-class field, with championship honours still up for grabs.
The Darley Dewhurst Stakes, the day’s other Group 1 race, also plays a major role in identifying an overall champion – in this case, the top two-year-old colt of the season. The race is the main testing ground for the following year’s 2,000 Guineas hopefuls.
Champions Day also features two Group 2 races – the seven-furlong Victor Chandler Challenge Stakes and the Owen Brown Rockfel Stakes, run over the same distance and an important end-of-season test for two-year-old fillies.
The Group 3 events are the Newmarket Darley Stakes and the Jockey Club Cup for stayers, while, last but not least, is the Tote Cesarewitch – the last of the season’s great staying handicaps. Run over the marathon distance of 2m2f, the Cesarewitch is famous as the only race to be held in two counties, crossing from Cambridgeshire into Suffolk during running.
The first two days of the meeting are more low-key but both include a Listed race and, as usual at Newmarket, several maiden events which offer the tantalising prospect of seeing a future star take that first step on the road to glory.
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