Guide to the July Festival at Newmarket

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Put your fashionable feet forward and win top prizes worth over £33,000 in Newmarket’s The Style Awards over the three-day Moët & Chandon July Festival, 13th–15th July. The Style Awards, sponsored by The Spa at Bedford Lodge, will feature a host of exciting new fashion savvy judges, including […]

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] July Festival at Newmarket: FAST FACTS ABOUT THE MOËT & CHANDON JULY FESTIVAL AT NEWMARKET’S JULY COURSE Prize-money in the 21 races over the three days is over £1.6 million. The top race – the Darley July Cup run over six furlongs on Saturday –

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Each year Newmarket Racecourses celebrates the life and career of trainer Sir Henry Cecil with two tributes to the legendary trainer at the Moët & Chandon July Festival. Sir Henry, who died in 2013, loved The July Course and particularly enjoyed its three-day summer

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] The Moët & Chandon July Festival meeting marks an important milestone in racing’s history with the 50th anniversary of the introduction of starting stalls. On 8th July 1965 Newmarket’s Chesterfield Stakes, a race for two-year-olds and won by Track Spare ridden by Lester Piggott,

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] 1605 (February 27) – James I visits Newmarket and likes what he sees. 1609 (March) – First reference to the King attending a horse race at Newmarket. 1765 – The July Meeting is staged for the first time. 1786 – The July Stakes is

A race known as the Bahrain Trophy was staged as a seven-furlong three-year-old only handicap up until the 1991 season, when a new contest carrying that title was established. The Bahrain Trophy, as we now know it, was inaugurated that year as an extended mile-and-three-quarters Listed race for three-year-olds.    Allison GrahamAllison is the Publisher of Eclipse

At the 1972 July Festival, Newmarket trainer Bernard van Cutsem won the first running of the seven-furlong juvenile race now known as the 32Red.com Superlative Stakes, with Great Love.    Allison GrahamAllison is the Publisher of Eclipse Magazine. She loves going to the Races and is learning to bet (despite being officially the worst bettor in

The TNT July Stakes is the oldest two-year-old race staged in Britain with a history dating back to 1786 when Lord Clermont’s Bullfinch took the inaugural spoils.   Allison GrahamAllison is the Publisher of Eclipse Magazine. She loves going to the Races and is learning to bet (despite being officially the worst bettor in the History