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 2003 | Stakes | 1 1/2 miles | ||
Pos. | Horse | Jockey | Trainer | Owner |
1 | INDIAN CREEK | T Quinn | David Elsworth | Mr Seymour Cohn 14/1 |
2 | BOLLIN ERIC | Kevin Darley | Tim Easterby | Sir Neil Westbrook 4/1 |
3 | ZINDABAD | Darryll Holland | Mark Johnston | Abdulla Buhaleeba 9/2 |
4 | BANDARI | Richard Hills | Mark Johnston | Hamdan Al Maktoum 11/2 |
5 | HIGHEST | Frankie Dettori | Saeed Bin Suroor | Godolphin 5/2 fav |
6 | PARASOL | Jamie Spencer | David Loder | Mohammed Al Nabouda 9/1 |
7 | RAWYAAN | Willie Supple | John Gosden | Hamdan Al Maktoum 16/1 |
8 | BALAKHERI | Johnny Murtagh | Sir Michael Stoute | HH Aga Khan 14/1 |
9 | COMPTON BOLTER | Eddie Ahern | Gerard Butler | Mr Erik Penser 25/1 |
The Hardwicke Stakes over a mile and a half of the Swinley Course was on Saturday 21st June 2003 and the winner, a brown horse by Indian Ridge out of Blue Water won a first prize of £87,000 (equivalent to £141,000 in 2020). | Over round 116% |
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