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The Champion Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race for thoroughbreds three-years-old
and older run at Newmarket’s Rowley Mile course in Suffolk.
Held in October, it is run over a mile and two furlongs (2,012 meters).
The 2006 race carried a purse of $649,775 (350,000 British pounds). Springfield
won the first running of the Stakes in 1877.
» Race Type: Group 1 (3+ year olds)
» Distance: 2012m (1 mile & 2 furlongs)
» Track: Newmarket’s Rowley Mile, Suffolk
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Pride, a six-year-old mare, who went off at 7-2 odds, won the 2006 Champion
Stakes by three lengths over Rob Roy, 20-1. The favorite at 9-4, Hurricane
Run, Britain’s 2005 Horse of the Year, finished a head behind Rob
Roy in the eight-horse field.
Pride, the second place finisher behind David Junior in 2005, was trained
in France by Alain de Royer-Dupre and ridden by Christopher Lemaire. She
toured the mile and two furlongs in 2:06.81. Storming Home holds the race
record at 2:01.42 set in 2002.
Alboradea is the only horse in recent years to win the Champion Stakes
twice – in 1998 and 1999.
Other recent winners include David Junior, 2005; Haafhd, 2004; Rakti,
2003; Storming Home, 2002; Nayef, 2001; Kalanisi, 2000; and Pilsudski,
1997.
A number of trainers have saddled two winners in recent years. They are
Barry Hills, 2002 and 2004; Sir Michael Stoute, 1997 and 2000; Sir Mark
Prescott, 1989 and 1999; Henry Cecil, 1988 and 1996; and Andre Fabre,
1994 and 1991.
Top jockeys include Richard Hills, who rode Haafhd and Nayef to victories
in 2004 and 2001, respectively, and George Duffield, who was aboard Alborada
in 1998 and 1999.
Owned by The Jockey Club, the Newmarket Racecourse’s Rowley Mile
is a right-handed course, two miles and two furlongs long with a straight
of a mile and two furlongs. It is described as wide, galloping and undulating.
» Past Champion Stakes Winners:
2006 Pride
2005 David Junior
2004 Haafhd
2003 Rakti
2002 Storming Home |
2001 Nayef
2000 Kalanisi
1999 Alborada
1998 Alborada
1997 Pilsudski
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