Windsor Course Guide

Windsor hosts racing throughout the summer, the majority of which takes place during their regular Monday evening meetings. Run in May, the Listed Royal Windsor Stakes is the Berkshire track’s first big race of the year.

The Listed Leisure Stakes ran over six furlongs for horses age three and older, has been used in the past as a prep-race for horses targeting the big midsummer sprints at Ascot and Newmarket and has been won in recent years by Tropics (2015), Markab (2012), Bated Breath (2011) and JJ The Jet Plane (2009).

Later on in the summer Windsor stages the Midsummer Stakes, a Listed contest run over a mile and open to three-year-olds and older and, over August Bank Holiday weekend, the Group Three Winter Hill Stakes. The contest is run over twelve furlongs and features some useful horses on its past winners list, not least 2015 winner Al Kazeem.

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Good-good to soft in places on hurdle course

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A figure of eight shape, twelve and a half furlongs in extent. Races around a mile and a half see both left and right-handed turns, but in races below that distance, only right-handed turns are met. Though perfectly flat throughout, the track is sharp in character. However due to the length of the run-in (nearly five furlongs), galloping sorts aren't inconvenienced. When the going is very testing fields tend to track across to the far side, although it is a greater factor at sprint trips. Those drawn high are favoured otherwise at five and six furlongs.


Windsor’s bottom turn has been christened ‘carnage corner’ and you can get into all sorts of trouble if the one in front slows down there, causing a concertina effect. It’s a sharp right-hander and if you employ different tactics, kicking-on on a front-runner there, you can really get those behind you at it, especially anybody caught wide. You need a balanced horses at Windsor, even though the course is flat, and a ballsy ride can pay dividends, because a path can often open up late-on on the stands’ rail.

View from the saddle: Jason Weaver
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Replays & Results

13:42 Matchbook Signup - Get 20% Back On Losses Handicap

1m | Class 5 | 3YO plus | 12 ran
  • Winner: Mertoun 4/1 Fav
  • Jockey: Rossa Ryan Trainer: Jane Chapple-Hyam
  • Owner: Mr P W Harris

14:12 Matchbook Betting Exchange Supporting UK Racing EBF Maiden Stakes

GBB Race

5f | Class 4 | 2YO only | 10 ran
  • Winner: Instant Force 13/2
  • Jockey: Pierre-Louis Jamin Trainer: K R Burke
  • Owner: Sheikh Rashid Dalmook Al Maktoum

14:42 Follow Matchbook On X Novice Stakes

GBB Race

1m | Class 4 | 3YO plus | 5 ran
  • Winner: Song Of The Clouds 2/1 2Fav
  • Jockey: Tom Marquand Trainer: W J Haggas
  • Owner: Mr A E Oppenheimer

15:12 Kim Smith Memorial Maiden Fillies' Stakes

GBB/GBBPlus Race

1m 3½f | Class 3 | 3YO plus | 7 ran
  • Winner: Queen Of Scotland 8/15 Fav
  • Jockey: Billy Loughnane Trainer: G Boughey
  • Owner: Queen Of Scotland Partners

15:42 Ivor Laws Memorial Race Handicap

6f | Class 5 | 3YO plus | 13 ran
  • Winner: Distant Rumble 5/1 2Fav
  • Jockey: Marco Ghiani Trainer: R A Teal
  • Owner: Homecroft Wealth Racing

16:12 Bet 20 Pound Get 40 Pound In Free Bets At matchbook.com Handicap

GBBPlus Race

1m 3½f | Class 4 | 3YO plus | 9 ran
  • Winner: King Of Berkshire 11/8 Fav
  • Jockey: Callum Hutchinson Trainer: A M Balding
  • Owner: Mrs A Althani

16:42 NSI Fire & Security Handicap

1m 3½f | Class 6 | 3YO plus | 11 ran
  • Winner: Amalou 22/1
  • Jockey: Saffie Osborne Trainer: D & C Kubler
  • Owner: Mr & Mrs G Middlebrook

17:12 Neverland Drone Show At Windsor Racecourse Handicap

5f | Class 6 | 3YO plus | 12 ran
  • Winner: Cameley Days 5/2 Fav
  • Jockey: Marco Ghiani Trainer: C A Dwyer
  • Owner: Mr & Mrs J Harris
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Royal Windsor Racecourse
Maidenhead Road
Windsor
Berkshire
SL4 5JJ
01753 498400
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