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When is the Britannia Stakes at Royal Ascot 2020?

Please note the day and/or time of this race has been changed for 2020

Royal Ascot Thursday 18th June 4.10pm
The Britannia Stakes (Heritage Handicap)
Age: 3yo colts & geldings
Distance: One mile
Prize: £120,000

History of the Britannia Stakes race at Royal Ascot

First run in 1928, the race takes place over the same course and distance as the Royal Hunt Cup. Open to 3 year old colts and geldings the Britannia Handicap is a 1m race with a prize pot of £120,000.

In recent years the most successful jockey has been Jamie Spencer with four wins since 2003, the most recent being BLESS HIM in 2017.
John Gosden heads the trainer table for the modern era with four wins since 1996 but his last win in the race was back in 2001.

Royal Ascot Britannia Stakes Trends and Statistics

Here are the Britannia Handicap 12 year Trends and Statistics:

Age – This race is for three-year-olds only.
Sex – Restricted to colts and geldings. Ten colts and two geldings have won in the last twelve years.
Country – Seven of the last twelve winners were bred in Great Britain three in Ireland and two in the USA.
Colour – Six of the last twelve winners have been bay (b), four were chestnut (ch), one bay/brown (b/br) and one brown (br).
Starting Price – No horse has returned a price of under 6/1 in the last twelve years, eight of them have been between 10/1 and 28/1.
Starting Price Rank – Only one favourite has won in the last twelve years and seven of them came from the first six in the betting.
Headgear – Nine of the last twelve winners wore no headgear although two of them were fitted with a tongue-tie, two winners wore hoods and one had first-time cheekpieces.
Weight – Nine of the last twelve winners have carried between 8st 8lb and 8st 13lb.
Draw – Five of the last twelve winners have been drawn between stall 3 and stall 9, three were drawn between 12 and 17 and four between 20 and 25.
Last run form – Five of the last twelve winners won on their lastest run, eleven of them finished in the first five last time out.
Days since last run – All of the last twelve winners had their previous run between 12 and 63 days ago although eight of them were in the narrower 12 to 26 days range.
Official Rating – Eleven of the last twelve winners had an official rating between 87 and 96.

Recent Winners of The Britannia Stakes

The runners in the Britannia Stakes

2020 Race Card

No.	Form	D	Horse	A/S	W/HG	Jockey	Trainer	Miles	Stall	OR	Odds	HRB	CD
5	17	12	Starcat	3yo C	9-2	McDonald, P J	Morrison, H	32	1	94	7/1	227	D
10	41161	6	Johan	3yo C	9-1	Doyle, James	Haggas, W J	88	10	93	10/1	209	D
7	1462152	13	Kondratiev Wave (IRE)	3yo C	9-2 CkPc	Curtis, B A	Carroll, A W	107	25	94	20/1	208
12	34191	13	Ziggle Pops	3yo C	9-0	Levey, S M	Hannon (Jnr), Richard	52	16	92	20/1	205
15	111	225	Dance Fever (IRE)	3yo C	8-13	Keniry, L P	Cox, C G	43	8	91	14/1	202
2	174	13	Verboten (IRE)	3yo C	9-3	Dettori, L	Gosden, J H M	88	18	95	10/1	199
4	51233	280	Toro Strike (USA)	3yo C	9-2	Hamilton, Tony	Fahey, R A	227	26	94	25/1	197
3	1174	12	Cherokee Trail (USA)	3yo C	9-2	Moore, Ryan	Gosden, J H M	88	2	94	14/1	197	C
21	22301	203	Great Ambassador	3yo G	8-10	Bentley, Harry	Beckett, R M	50	20	88	20/1	197
13	231	6	Dubai Mirage (IRE)	3yo C	9-0 CkPc1	Fallon, Cieren (3)	Suroor, Saeed Bin	88	3	92	12/1	190	D
22	3331	10	Finest Sound (IRE)	3yo G	8-9 TT	Atzeni, Andrea	Crisford, Simon	88	17	87	15/2	190	D
1	5142354	110	Sun Power (FR)	3yo G	9-7	Sousa, Silvestre De	Hannon (Jnr), Richard	52	15	99	16/1	189
20	31311	264	World Title (IRE)	3yo C	8-10	Shoemark, Kieran	Watson, Archie	28	12	88	20/1	186	D
17	8113	13	Grove Ferry (IRE)	3yo G	8-12	Probert, David	Balding, A M	33	24	90	20/1	186
11	3211	328	Path Of Thunder (IRE)	3yo G	9-0 CkPc	Buick, William	Appleby, Charlie	88	9	92	12/1	183
19	12	15	Enemy	3yo C	8-11	Murphy, Oisin	Gosden, J H M	88	21	89	8/1	179	C
16	211	158	Harrison Point (FR)	3yo C	8-12	Doyle, Hollie	Watson, Archie	28	27	90	20/1	178
26	3821152	16	Ayr Harbour	3yo C	8-7	RESERVE	Appleby, M	124	14	85	N/A	178
14	21644	12	Hes A Keeper (IRE)	3yo G	8-13	Kingscote, Richard	Dascombe, Tom	185	6	91	25/1	171	D
6	21	208	Khaloosy (IRE)	3yo C	9-2	Crowley, Jim	Varian, Roger	88	19	94	12/1	169
27	7233	11	Establish	3yo C	8-7	RESERVE	Varian, Roger	88	5	85	N/A	166
8	2138100	14	Glasvegas (IRE)	3yo G	9-1 Blnk1	Rodriguez, Callum	Dalgleish, Keith	391	13	93	50/1	165
24	126	13	Amaysmont	3yo G	8-8	Egan, David	Fahey, R A	227	7	86	50/1	163
25	7214	16	Overwrite (IRE)	3yo C	8-7	RESERVE	Johnston, M	243	22	85	N/A	162
9	158	285	Shared Belief (IRE)	3yo G	9-1	Tudhope, Daniel	Watson, Archie	28	11	93	25/1	156
23	15	15	All You Wish	3yo C	8-8	Watson, Jason	Balding, A M	33	4	86	25/1	139
18	7150	257	Eshaasy	3yo G	8-12	Havlin, Robert	Gosden, J H M	88	23	90	25/1	132

What's Keith's Britannia Stakes Tips for Royal Ascot?

Keith Bond is our resident pro tipster here at FRT Towers. He's been studying the cards, form, stats, trends and more for the Britannia Stakes at Royal Ascot, and here's his thoughts ahead of the race:

This is an opportunity to pick up a decent priced winner as no horse has returned a price of under 6/1 in the last twelve years, eight of them have been between 10/1 and 28/1.

Eleven of the last twelve winners had an official rating between 87 and 96 which is a pretty narrow band in a competitive handicap.

24 runners are due to go to post and their odds currently range from 8/1 to 33/1 which just about leaves everything in the mix. FINEST SOUND is the current market leader an others worth noting include VERBOTEN, CHEROKEE TRAIL, DUBAI MIRAGE and ENEMY. I expect my final selection to come from these 4.

Keith's final choice

16:10 ENEMY 13/2 each way – I am torn between two in this race, FINEST SOUND went into the Notebook when winning last time. ENEMY, however, I put up as one of my each way's of the meeting in the bonus video and I am convinced that this race will be set up for him as he needs to swoop late on the back of a strong pace. I will be combining the pair in a forecast.

How it fared

ENEMY 4TH – Read the script perfectly and swooped late as expected to grab us fourth and some place money. FINEST SOUND was second.

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There were no antepost tips, the on the day tip was VELORIUM as a 9/1 each way selection.

What our members tipped in the Britannia Stakes

Each day we ask our members to select their Pick 6, their NAP for each race of the day. We then collate all the picks, and present the top selections to our VIP members. Our Members picked the following for the Britannia Stakes:

Quite a bit of early love for Dubai Mirage but that’s faded now with Finest Sound taking the lead on 21% of the selections. One of the four John Gosden trained horses in the race gets the nod for next best and that’s in the shape of Enemy with 13.6% of your selections.

Real mixed bag of selections here for the Britannia Handicap, but it’s Motafaawit that leads the pack. Migration and King Ademar bringing up the rear.

Royal Ascot Britannia Stakes Results 2019

1 Biometric 28/1
2 Turgenev 7/2
3 Fanaar 50/1
4 Awe 14/1
28 ran, 1¼l, 2l, 2¼l

As you would expect from a field of 28 runners, the race is wide open and the outsiders having every opportunity to hit the winning spots, and the Britannia Handicap did not buck that trend with 28/1 shot Biometric winning the race. Neither Keith or our members selections got a look in the top four spots, with Velorium crossing the line in 26th position and member’s choice Motafaawit only doing marginally better in 16th place.