Beckford Stakes 2023

Run as part of Bath’s Season Finale, the Beckford Stakes is very different on the eye to most events staged at this racecourse.

Firstly, it is one of very few events at Bath staged over a long distance, in this case, a mile-and-three-quarters, while it always has the possibility of being run on softer ground given that it takes place in October which again is unusual for Bath.

Only inaugurated in 2016 as a brand-new Listed race on the calendar, already a real mixture of winners have announced themselves with two three-year-olds, a four-year-old and a five-year-old having taken the race for northern, southern and an Irish-based trainer.

The list of winning jockeys is already impressive in the Beckford, James Doyle, Frankie Dettori and Colin Keane having already been clapped into the winner’s enclosure after this race and it could well be that some top-class horses and riders come for this each sea