Royal Lodge Stakes


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The Royal Lodge Stakes is a Group 2 flat horse race in Great Britain open to two-year-old colts and geldings. It is run on the Rowley Mile at Newmarket over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in late September.

History
The event was established in 1946, and it was originally held at Ascot. It is named after Royal Lodge, a royal residence located in Windsor Great Park. It was initially contested over 5 furlongs and open to horses of either gender. It was extended to a mile in 1948, and restricted to colts and geldings in 1987.

The race was first staged at Newmarket in 2005, when Ascot was closed for redevelopment. It was transferred more permanently in 2011.

The Royal Lodge Stakes is sometimes included in the Breeders' Cup Challenge series, with the winner earning an automatic invitation to compete in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf. Its latest period of inclusion began in 2012.

The race is currently held on the final day of Newmarket's three-day Cambridgeshire Meeting, the same day as the Cambridgeshire Handicap.

Records
Leading jockey (8 wins):
 * Lester Piggott – Pinched (1957), St Paddy (1959), Casabianca (1963), Soft Angels (1965), Royal Palace (1966), Remand (1967), Sir Wimborne (1975), Dunbeath (1982)

Leading trainer (8 wins):
 * Noel Murless – Pinched (1957), St Paddy (1959), Casabianca (1963), Soft Angels (1965), Royal Palace (1966), Domineering (1969), Yaroslav (1971), Adios (1972)

Earlier winners

 * 1946: Royal Barge
 * 1947: Black Tarquin
 * 1948: Swallow Tail
 * 1949: Tabriz
 * 1950: Fraise du Bois II
 * 1951: Khor Mousa
 * 1952: Neemah
 * 1953: Infatuation
 * 1954: Solarium
 * 1955: Royal Splendour
 * 1956: Noble Venture
 * 1957: Pinched
 * 1958: Cantelo
 * 1959: St Paddy
 * 1960: Beta *
 * 1961: Escort
 * 1962: Star Moss
 * 1963: Casabianca *
 * 1964: Prominer
 * 1965: Soft Angels
 * 1966: Royal Palace
 * 1967: Remand
 * 1968: Dutch Bells
 * 1969: Domineering
 * 1970: Sea Friend
 * 1971: Yaroslav
 * 1972: Adios
 * 1973: Straight as a Die
 * 1974: no race
 * 1975: Sir Wimborne

* The 1960 and 1963 runnings took place at Newbury.