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 1968 | Stakes | 1 1/2 miles | ||
Pos. | Horse | Jockey | Trainer | Owner |
1 | HOPEFUL VENTURE | Barclay | Murless | HM The Queen 4/6 fav |
2 | TAPIS ROSE | J Lindley | Hanley | Mr A Richards 28/1 |
3 | FORTISSIMO | P Boothman | Fetherstonhaugh | Major V McCalmont 100/7 |
4 | PERTINACITY | J Mercer | Budgett | Colonel P Wright 15/2 |
5 | SIDON | Breasley | G Richards | Mrs D Brewster 3/1 |
6 | MARINER | G Starkey | Oxley | Mr R Hollingsworth 100/8 |
The Hardwicke Stakes over a mile and a half of the Swinley Course was on Friday 21st June 1968 and the winner, a bay horse by Aureole out of White House won a first prize of £8007 (equivalent to £142,000 in 2020). | Over round 116% |
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