Taking place on Saturday 24th 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 2025 dates will be available soon. Here's what we got up to in 2024:
The 10 Qualifiers range from Class 2s worth £30,000 to Class 4s worth £10,800 and are run over both 5f and 6f:
Class 3 - 6f12y - 4yo+ - £18,400
Class 3 - 5f21y - 4yo+ - £10,800
Class 3 - 6f12y - 3yo - £18,400
Class 2 - 5f21y - 3yo+ - £30,000
Class 3 - 6f12y - 4yo+ - £18,400
Class 3 - 5f21y - 3yo+ - £18,400
Class 2 - 6f12y - 3yo+ - £30,000
Class 4 - 6f12y - 3yo+ - £10,800
Class 4 - 6f12y - 3yo+ - £10,800
Class 3 - 6f12y - 3yo+ - £18,400
FINAL - Class 2 - 6f12y - 3yo+ - £75,000
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.
Our 2025 High-Value British EBF races will be available to view soon.
