Taking place on Saturday 23rd August, the Group 3 Winter Hill Stakes and Listed August Stakes are the most prestigious races within Royal Windsor's programme and deliver top-class performances year-on-year.
The Group 3 Winter Hill Stakes is run over 1m2f and is worth £70k total prize money, a £10k increase on 2023's prize pot. Recent winners of the race include multiple Group 1 winner Al Kazeem and the back-to-back winner for Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Fabricate. 2023's renewal saw Passenger take the win by a short head from West Wind Blows, who has subsequently placed second in two Group 1 races in Australia.
2024 saw William Haggas trained My Prospero do enough with Cieren Fallon on board.
Sir Michael Stoute is the winning-most trainer of the Group 3 Winter Hill Stakes, winning the last 3 renewals, taking Stoute's victories to 9 in total. Frankie Dettori has held the winning-most jockey title since 2013, with a total of 5 wins since 1996.
The August Stakes was upgraded to a Listed race in 2004 and is run over 1m3f with a total prize pot of £55k. Previous winners of the race have gone on to Group success including Godolphin's Beautiful Romance, 2021 winner Teona who went on to win the Group 1 Prix Vermeille, and 2018's Desert Encounter who went on to Grade 1 success in Canada and took the Group 3 Winter Hill the following year.
2025 sees the return of the ultra-competitive Fitzdares Sprint Series, with 10 qualifiers for the valuable £75k Final on in August.
The 10 Qualifiers range from Class 2s worth £30,000 to Class 4s worth £10,800 and are run over both 5f and 6f.
The first five qualifiers in the 2025 Fitzdares Sprint Series are now available to view below:
12th May - Class 3, 6f12y, 4yo+ - £18,400
19th May - Class 2, 5f21y, 4yo+ - £30,000
2nd June - Class 3, 6f12y, 3yo - £18,400
9th June - Class 2, 5f21y, 3yo+ - £30,000
16th June - Class 3, 6f12y, 4yo+ - £18,400
What is the Racing League?
7 teams compete 42 races over 6 meetings for over £2m prize money in the summer.
Each team enter two runners per race in 7 races per meeting. Races are run over the following distances: 5f, 6f, 1m, 1m2f and 1m3f.
Class/rating bands for 2025 are yet to be confirmed.
Royal Windsor Racecourse are delighted to host 4 of the 88 High Value Developmental Races across the UK for the 2025 Flat season.
The programme of races, designed primarily for two- and three-year-old horses at the beginning of their careers, offer enhanced prize money with the aim of supporting the domestic breeding industry and encouraging the purchase and racing of young talent in Britain.
Our 2025 High Value Developmental Races for 2025 are as follows:
19th May - Class 2 Juddmonte EBF Restricted Maiden, 6f12y, 2yo - £40,000
19th May - Class 2 British EBF Maiden Fillies' Stakes, 1m, 3yo - £40,000
30th June - Class 2 British Stallion Studs EBF Novice Stakes, 1m, 3yo+
1st September - Class 2 Juddmonte EBF Restricted Maiden Stakes, 1m, 2yo - £30,000
