Wild Card Entries
Ascot Racecourse and Jockey Club Racecourses are delighted to reinforce historic links with America from 2024 with an exciting new runners initiative in partnership with Churchill Downs.
The partnership will link historic races in the UK and high-profile, top quality turf races in the USA.
For three-year-old fillies, a runner from the Edgewood Stakes, (Grade 2, 1m 0.5f, $500,000), run on Kentucky Oaks Day (Friday 3rd May) will receive an entry and a travel incentive to run in the Betfred Oaks (Group 1, 1m 4f, £500,000) at Epsom Downs on Ladies Day (Friday 31st May).
For three-year-old colts, a runner from the American Turf Stakes, (Grade 2, 1m 0.5f. $500,000), run on Kentucky Derby Day (Saturday 4th May), will receive an entry and a travel incentive to run in The Betfred Derby Epsom Downs (Group 1, 1m 4f, £1,500,000) on Derby Day (Saturday 1st June).
A runner from the Twin Spires Turf Sprint Stakes, (Grade 2, 3yo+, 5.5f, $500,000) will receive an entry and a travel incentive to run in the King Charles III Stakes (Group 1, 3yo+ 5f, £650,000) at Royal Ascot (Tuesday 18th June).
A runner from the Old Forester Turf Classic Stakes, (Group 1, 4yo+, 1m1f $1,000,000) will receive an entry and a travel incentive to run in either of the Queen Anne Stakes (Group 1, 4yo+. 1m, £750,000, Tuesday 18th June) or the Prince of Wales’s Stakes (Group 1, 4yo+, 1m2f, £1,000,000, Wednesday 19th June) at Royal Ascot.
Winners of the above races will receive the invite to run in the corresponding races across the Atlantic. In the event that the winners aren’t able to take up that invite, racecourses may then also invite placed horses.
To find out more about this exciting new initiative or about having runners at Royal Ascot and with the Jockey Club in the UK, please submit your details below.
Jockey Club Racecourses
The Jockey Club operates 15 racecourses staging 103 of the 292 UK Flat Pattern and Listed Races, 14 of the 36 Group 1s and four of the five Classics. Prize money for 2024 across our 342 fixtures totals nearly £60 million. Many of racing’s most historic and prestigious prizes are staged at the likes of Epsom Downs, Newmarket’s two racecourses – The Rowley Mile and The July Course – Sandown Park and Haydock Park. We host the 1,000 and 2,000 Guineas, The Derby and The Oaks, The July Cup, The Eclipse and The Sprint Cup – all races with significant history, prize money and international pedigree.
Wherever you choose to run with us, you can be guaranteed a fantastic welcome and an unforgettable owners’ and trainers’ experience, supported by our colleagues at the International Racing Bureau and Great British Racing International. Enquiries on potential contributions from the Jockey Club towards the cost of transport and entry fees are welcomed and can be directed to our international representatives, Matt Woolston and Sophie Able.
Details for all appear in this brochure.
ROYAL ASCOT
Royal Ascot will be worth a record £10m in prize money in 2024 with all Group 1 races run for a minimum of £650,000. American-trained horses have a rich history of success at Royal Ascot and we welcome all enquiries concerning potential contributions towards the cost of transport.
Ascot will contribute towards the cost of transport for 115+ rated horses travelling to the UK from outside of Europe to compete specifically in Group One races at Ascot. Ascot offers connections of each travelling horse an agreed ‘all in’ travel allowance and more information can be found in our International Races brochure here.
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