Royal Ascot: Wokingham Stakes

The Wokingham Stakes, contested on the final day of the Royal meeting, is a flat handicap over 6 furlongs open to horses aged three years or older. The race is named after Wokingham, a market town 7.7 miles to the west of Ascot, and was established in 1813, the inaugural running being won by Pointers, owned by the Duke of York. For a number of years the Wokingham Stakes was divided into two or three separate classes, but it became a single race in 1874.
Early history:- The inaugural running of the Wokingham Stakes over the New Mile was on Friday 18th June 1813 when a field of 15 was headed by the Duke of York's Pointers (8/1) who defeated Lodona, Sorcery and the well-backed 6/4 favourite Offas Dyke.
Wokingham Stakes 1903 Handicap 6 furlongs on New Mile
Pos. Horse Jockey Trainer/Age/weight Owner
1 GLASS JUG Miller Major Beatty 4-7st 9lbs Lord Howard De Walden 20/1
2 PITCH DARK J Plant Sam Pickering 3-6st 2lbs Mr R Dalgleish 20/1
3 WOLFSHALL Mole T Sherwood 3-6st 11lbs Mr M Pizzey 100/7
4 GRAVE & GAY C Trigg Duke 4-6st 10lbs Sir J Thursby 100/8
5 COSSACK Danny Maher Blackwell 5-9st 3lbs Sir James Miller 100/6
6 MAUVEZIN W Halsey Grensel aged-9st 8lbs Lord Carnarvon 100/7
7 HIS LORDSHIP J H Martin Morton 4-7st 12lbs Mr J B Joel 100/7
8 SPECULATOR H Aylin Fred Day 4-7st 6lbs Sir Ernest Cassel 25/1
9 NABOT W Lane W Waugh 4-7st 4lbs Sir J Blundell Maple 10/1
10 DUMBARTON CASTLE Otto Madden J Powney 3-7st 5lbs Mr G A Prentice 100/7
11 HACKLER'S PRIDE Bernard Dillon Fallon 3-7st 2lbs Captain Forester 100/7
12 ACHSIOUS Watts Richard Marsh 3-7st 1lbs Mr Arthur James 100/7
13 LITTLETON F Hardy John Porter 3-7st 2lbs Mr W Low 9/4 fav
14 PORTCULLIS Jack Jarvis H Sadler 5-6st 9lbs Mr L Brassey 25/1
15 BIZARGH C Escott Gray 3-6st 7lbs Mr Sydney Platt 25/1
16 VIVE LE ROI Wheatley Robson 4-6st 11lbs Mr A Knowles 25/1
17 HIS GRACE Murray Peter Gilpin 3-6st 6lbs Mr L Neumann 25/1
18 ENERGETIC Knight Bibby 3-6st 5lbs Mr T Southall 25/1
19 TORRENT Jansk Alec Taylor 4-6st 3lb Mr Washington Singer 8/1
20 MIMICRY Barnard Leach 4-6st 3lbs Mr H J King 25/1
21 LOCH LAVEN Griggs Sherwood jnr 4-6st 7lbs Sir R Waldie-Griffith 25/1
22 HARTFIELD Hughes Alf Sadler jnr 3-5st 10lbs Mr Alf Stedall 25/1
23 TICKETS C Aylin J Chandler 3-6st 0lb Mr R Pryor 100/6
The Wokingham Handicap over the 6 furlongs of the New Mile course took place on Friday 19th June 1903 and the winner, a chesnut filly by Isinglass out of Amphora, won a first prize of 950 sovereigns (equivalent to £118,000 in 2020). Over round 158%
Wokingham Stakes Handicap 6 furlongs 1813
      1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819
1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829
1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 A 1838 A 1839
1840 1841 A 1842 1843 A 1844 A 1845 A B 1846 A 1847 A 1848 A 1849 A
1850 A 1851 A 1852 A 1853 A 1854 A 1855 A 1856 A 1857 A 1858 A 1859
1860 A B 1861 A B 1862 A B 1863 A 1864 A 1865 A 1866 A 1867 A 1868 A 1869 A
1870 A 1871 A 1872 A 1873 A 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879
1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889
1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899
1900 1901 1902 1903