Middle Park Stakes

VANDEEK (C, yellow/black cap) winning the Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket in England. Picture: Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images

The Middle Park Stakes is a Group 1 race run under Set Weight conditions for two year old colts at Newmarket conducted by the Jockey Club.

The Middle Park Stakes is run over six furlongs. It was first run in 1866 and was won by The Rake.

It is the first of the juvenile Group 1s of the season along with the Cheveley Park Stakes for the fillies on the same day.

Run down the Rowley Mile straight course on the last day of the Cambridgeshire meeting, it is named after the stud at Eltham.

When the Future Champions Day began at Newmarket, this was part of that but was brought forward to pattern into the Dewhurst Stakes.

Last horse to do the Middle Park/2000 Guineas double is Rodrigo de Triano in 1991.

Aidan O'Brien has 7 wins as leading trainer while most wins as a jockey is with Danny Maher, Sir Gordon Richards and Lester Piggott with 6.

12 months on from his Middle Park and Dewhurst wins, US Navy Flag would win the July Cup and be slotted to head to Australia for The Everest. A year later Ten Sovereigns won this race and the July Cup and also headed to Australia.

Perfect Power had won the Prix Morny before the Middle Park and then after not running the mile of the 2000 Guineas, he brilliantly dropped back to the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot.

The Middle Park Stakes was worth £275,000 in 2023.

Notable winners of the Middle Park Stakes include Vandeek (2023), Blackbeard (2022), Perfect Power (2021), Earthlight (2019), Ten Sovereigns (2018), U S Navy Flag (2017), Reckless Abandon (2012), Dream Ahead (2010), Ad Valorem (2004), Oasis Dream (2002), Johannesburg (2001), Royal Applause (1995), Rodrigo de Triano (1991), Diesis (1982), Brigadier Gerard (1970), Our Babu (1954), Nearula (1952), Abernant (1948), Dante (1944), Sun Chariot (1941), Djebel (1939), Scottish Union (1937), Felicitation (1932), Orwell (1931), Call Boy (1926), Tetratema (1919), Lemberg (1909), Bayardo (1908), Pretty Polly (1903), Galtee More (1896), St Frusquin (1895), Ladas (1893), Isinglass (1892), Orme (1891), Donovan (1888), Melton (1884), Busybody (1883) and Petrarch (1875).

The 2023 Middle Park Stakes was won by Vandeek from Task Force and River Tiber.


Results

30 Sep 2023, Juddmonte Middle Park Stakes (Group 1) , VANDEEK 1207m 1:10.76 | NEWMARKET (ROWLEY) | JAMES DOYLE | SIMON & ED CRISFORD
24 Sep 2022, Juddmonte Middle Park Stakes (Group 1) , BLACKBEARD 1207m 1:12.02 | NEWMARKET (ROWLEY) | RYAN MOORE | AIDAN O'BRIEN
25 Sep 2021, Juddmonte Middle Park Stakes (Group 1) , PERFECT POWER 1207m 1:11.32 | NEWMARKET (ROWLEY) | CHRISTOPHE SOUMILLON | R A FAHEY
26 Sep 2020, Juddmonte Middle Park Stakes (Group 1) , SUPREMACY 1207m 1:09.73 | NEWMARKET (ROWLEY) | ADAM KIRBY | C G COX
28 Sep 2019, Juddmonte Middle Park Stakes (Group 1) , EARTHLIGHT 1207m 1:09.31 | NEWMARKET (ROWLEY) | M BARZALONA | A FABRE
29 Sep 2018, Juddmonte Middle Park Stakes (Group 1) , TEN SOVEREIGNS 1207m 1:10.04 | NEWMARKET (ROWLEY) | DONNACHA O'BRIEN | A P O'BRIEN
30 Sep 2017, Juddmonte Middle Park Stakes (Group 1) , U S NAVY FLAG 1207m 1:12.44 | NEWMARKET (ROWLEY) | SEAMIE HEFFERNAN | A P O'BRIEN
24 Sep 2016, Juddmonte Middle Park Stakes (Group 1) , THE LAST LION 1207m 1:12.13 | NEWMARKET (ROWLEY) | JOSEPH FANNING | M JOHNSTON
26 Sep 2015, Juddmonte Middle Park Stakes (Group 1) , SHALAA 1207m 1:11.92 | NEWMARKET (ROWLEY) | LANFRANCO DETTORI | JOHN GOSDEN
17 Oct 2014, vision.ae Middle Park Stakes (Group 1) , CHARMING THOUGHT 1207m 1:13.01 | NEWMARKET (ROWLEY) | WILLIAM BUICK | C APPLEBY

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