Royal Ascot: Hardwicke Stakes
The Hardwicke Stakes, held on the final day of the Royal meeting, is a Group 2 race over 1 mile 3 furlongs and 211 yards and is open to horses aged four years or older. The race is named in honour of the 5th Earl of Hardwicke, the Master of the Buckhounds in Benjamin Disraeli’s government from 1874 to 1880. The race was named in his honour in 1879, but he was an inveterate gambler who had huge debts with Agar-Robartes Bank and had to try to sell his Wimpole Hall Estate in Cambridgeshire in 1891. However, it failed to sell at auction and Lord Robartes, chairman of the Bank, had to accept the Estate in settlement of the debt. |
| Hardwicke Stakes 1883 | Stakes | Old Mile | ||
| Pos. | Horse | Jockey | Age/weight | Owner |
| 1 | TRISTAN | Fred Webb | Tom Jennings jnr 5-9st 12lbs | Mr C J Lefevre 5/4 fav |
| 2 | IROQUOIS | Tom Cannon | Tom Cannon 5-9st 12lbs | Mr Pierre Lorillard 6/1 |
| 3 | SHREWSBURY | John Osborne | Bates 4-9st 0lbs | Mr R Jardine 6/1 |
| 4 | DUTCH OVEN | Fred Archer | Mathew Dawson 4-9st 7lbs | Lord Falmouth 7/1 |
| 5 | GRANDMASTER | Charles Wood | Mathew Dawson 3-7st 12lbs | Lord Falmouth 100/8 |
| 6 | BROWN BREAD colt | C Bowman | Bates 4-8st 4lbs | Mr R Jardine 20/1 |
| 7 | BLUE GRASS | Huxtable | Richard Marsh 3-8st 5lbs | Mr James R Keene 20/1 |
| 8 | BONAPARTE | Snowden | William L'Anson 4-9st 0lbs | Mr C Perkins 20/1 |
| 9 | PRISM | Bell | Enoch 3-7st 7lbs | Lord Zetland 20/1 |
| The Hardwicke Stakes over a mile and a half of the Swinley Course was on Friday 8th June 1883 and the winner, a chestnut horse by Hermit out of Thrift, won a first prize of 3260 sovereigns from 126 subscribers (equivalent to £399,000 in 2020). | Over round 112% | |||
| Hardwicke Stakes | Group 2 | 1 mile 4 furlongs | 1879 | ||||||
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