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Purses at Royal Ascot, England’s most prestigious flat-race meeting, have been increased 11 percent, to a record level of approximately $7,550,000 for the five-day meeting from June 18-22, Ascot officials announced on Wednesday.
The largest increases have been dedicated to Group 1 races for 3-year-olds over a mile. The St James’s Palace Stakes and Coronation Stakes for 3-year-olds fillies will be worth approximately $528,500, an increase from 2012 levels of $377,500.
Those races will have purses equal to three other Group 1 races at Royal Ascot – the Queen Anne Stakes for older milers, the King’s Stand Stakes over five furlongs, and the Ascot Gold Cup over 2 1/2 miles.
Overall, 23 of the 30 races at Royal Ascot will have higher purses in 2013, with some rising by just $7,500.
The richest races of the meeting are the Prince of Wales’s Stakes over 1 1/4 miles for older horses and the Diamond Jubilee Stakes for sprinters, each worth approximately $755,000.
The Group 2 Windsor Forest Stakes over a mile for older horses has been renamed the Duke of Cambridge Stakes. The purse has been increased from approximately $151,000 in 2012 to $189,000 this year.
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SIZZLING GOLD looks well situated. The 6yo mare has been a pro for a long time - you don't win 11 times by accident - and some of her best work has come sprinting on turf, on THIS turf course. After nearly 4 months off she came back to be a solid 3rd for $40K on this course June 2 and with that under her belt and a 2-level class drop she looks primed. Oh, that bullet :47 move here June 15 looks like a thumbs-up, too. HEAT TRAP finished full of run to get up in the final stride and in her turf sprint debut here May 19. She obviously has ability but it's first time vs.
