Cheveley Park Stakes Newmarket 2023

Great Britain hosts just two races specifically for two-year-old fillies and both are run on Newmarket’s Rowley Mile; the Fillies’ Mile and this six-furlong contest, the Cheveley Park Stakes.

A hugely valuable race both in terms of the near £300,000 prize fund and its importance to breeders, the Cheveley Park has been on the racing schedule since 1899 and is run in late September as part of the Cambridgeshire meeting.

As well as being an important Group 1 race in its own right, winners of this event tend to put themselves into contention for major events in the future as evidenced by the likes of Marling (Irish 1000 Guineas, Coronation Stakes, Sussex Stakes winner) and Special Duty (English and French 1000 Guineas).

However, despite seeing out this trip as juveniles, more often winners of the Sun Chariot go on to be sprinters in their older careers making quotes for subsequent classics seem bad value.