Royal Ascot 2015 Results Part 1

After weeks of looking forward to the Royal Ascot 2015, the great horse-racing event of the year has concluded.  It’s hard to believe it’s already over, but on Saturday the last race was won as the American horse Undrafted triumphed in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes over Brazen Beau. 

Let’s take a look at the day-by-day results:

Day One

• Washington DC came in the top place at the Windsor Castle Stakes, followed by Areen and Steady Pace.

• Ryan Moore managed to win a 54-1 treble: the fourth, fifth, and sixth traces.  That’s one heck of an accomplishment, and one for trainer Aidan O’Brien as well.

• Buratino won the Coventry Stakes.

• Solow placed first in the Queen Anne Stakes.

• Goldream took first place in the King’s Stand Stakes.

• Gleneagles won the St. James’s Palace Stakes, as broadly predicted.

Day Two

• Dutch Connection achieved a 14-1 win in the Jersey Stakes, followed by Fadhayyil and Bossy Guest.  Ivawood, the favourite, didn’t even make the podium.

• Acapulco, a huge American horse, triumphed in the Queen Mary Stakes.  Easton Angel, the second-place winner, made an impressive go as well.

• Amazing Maria unexpectedly won the Duke of Cambridge Stakes after surging past the other horses clear from the back during the second half.  Wow, what a shocking turnaround!

• Free Eagle won the Prince of Wales’s Stakes, with The Grey Gatsby coming in a close second. 

• GM Hopkins won the Royal Hunt Cup.

• Osaila won the Sandringham Handicap.

If you bet on any of these Day 1 or Day 2 races at this year’s Royal Ascot, hopefully you managed to come out on top with the smart money!  While some of the race results were no surprise at all (like Gleneagles winning the St. James’s Palace Stakes), others would have been impossible to predict or imagine, even during the event (like Amazing Maria suddenly clearing every horse on the track in the Duke of Cambridge Stakes).  This is exactly why horseracing is so exciting.  You think you know what’s coming, and every time, there is something that surprises you.

Be sure to check out the second part of our Royal Ascot wrap-up series (Royal Ascot 2015 Results Part 2) to find out what happened on Days 3, 4, and 5 of the UK’s biggest horseracing tradition.  If you didn’t win this year, hopefully what you learned will help you get an edge next year!