Queen Anne Stakes 2024

Now the traditional opening race of the Royal Ascot meeting in mid-June every year, the Queen Anne Stakes put simply is one of the world’s top mile races and fittingly holds Group 1 status.

Even when including the Queen Anne’s Group 2 days the list of winners of this race reads like a veritable who’s who of the mile division, past victors including Warning, Barathea, Cape Cross, Kalanisi, Goldikova, Canford Cliffs and the mighty Frankel too.

The race is only for four-year-olds and over given that the classic generation has their own mile race at this meeting, with prize money these days topping £600,000.

The Queen Anne Stakes has been on the racing calendar since 1840, although run under a different name and in different conditions before being renamed for the founder of the track, and takes place on Ascot’s straight course a matter of minutes after the Queen has taken the same route in her carriage.