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When is the Wolferton 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 1.50pm

The Wolferton Rated Stakes (Listed)

Age: 4yo+

Distance: One mile two furlongs

Prize: £100,000

History of the Wolferton Stakes race at Royal Ascot

The race was first run in 2002 when Royal Ascot was extended to five days to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. It is named after the village of Wolferton near Sandringham House.

Initially, a handicap until 2018 when the conditions were altered to comply with a recommendation that no handicap should carry Listed status. Group 1 and 2 winners since the previous August are prohibited from entering.

John Gosden is the trainer who has the most wins for this race having 4 wins, with William Buick seeing success twice making him top jockey.

Royal Ascot Wolferton Stakes Trends and Statistics

Limited data due to conditions changing in 2018.

Here are the Windsor Castle Stakes Trends and Statistics 2018 – 2020.

Age – The three winners have been 4, 5 and 6.
Sex – All three winners to date have been geldings.
Country – Two of the three winners have been bred in Ireland and one in Great Britain.
Colour – We have seen two bays (b) and one chestnut (ch) win this race in the three years.
Starting Price (SP) – All three winners were between 5/1 and 8/1.
Starting Price Rank – No have won in the last three years. All three winners were between second and fourth in the betting market.
Headgear – One of the three winners wore no headgear, one wore a hood and one wore cheekpieces.
Draw – The three winners came from stalls 4, 6 and 12.
Last Run Form – Only one of the three winners won last time out.
Days since last run – All of the three winners ran at least 39 days ago and two of them were making their seasonal debut.
Official Rating – All three winners had an official rating of between 111 and 115.

Recent Winners of The Wolferton Stakes

The runners in the Wolferton Stakes

2020 Race Card

No.	Form	D	Horse	A/S	W/HG	Jockey	Trainer	Miles	Stall	OR	Odds	HRB	CD
1	112111	117	Dubai Warrior	4yo C	9-8	Havlin, Robert	Gosden, J H M	88	3	114	8/1	276	D
13	115442	87	Sir Dragonet (IRE)	4yo C	9-3	Moore, Ryan	OBrien, A P	Abroad	7	116	4/1	228
3	4507851	265	Mountain Hunter (USA)	6yo G	9-6	Cosgrave, Pat	Suroor, Saeed Bin	88	13	108	16/1	223
8	31414	243	Fox Tal	4yo C	9-3	Sousa, Silvestre De	Balding, A M	33	2	115	11/4	218	D
2	1172921	215	Crossed Baton	5yo G	9-6 CkPc TT	Dettori, L	Gosden, J H M	88	9	106	16/1	214	D
11	13434	13	Prince Eiji	4yo C	9-3	Atzeni, Andrea	Varian, Roger	88	16		25/1	209	C
12	3313458	243	Regal Reality	5yo G	9-3	Crowley, Jim	Stoute, Sir Michael	88	11	119	4/1	203	D
16	4755125	12	Bubble And Squeak	5yo M	8-12	Curtis, B A	Kirk, S	28	15	91	50/1	196	C
4	2390242	16	Cockalorum (IRE)	5yo G	9-3 Blnk	Rodriguez, Callum	Fell, Roger	107	12	89	100/1	195	D
15	11	392	Aloe Vera	4yo F	8-12	Bentley, Harry	Beckett, R M	50	14	103	14/1	194	D
10	2281157	341	Mountain Angel (IRE)	6yo G	9-3	Doyle, James	Varian, Roger	88	5	111	14/1	194	C D
14	2251743	281	Walkinthesand (IRE)	4yo C	9-3	Dobbs, Pat	Hannon (Jnr), Richard	52	1	108	20/1	178	D
9	1914355	11	King Ottokar (FR)	4yo C	9-3	Shoemark, Kieran	Fellowes, Charlie	88	8	106	25/1	177	D
7	2216664	250	Forest Ranger (IRE)	6yo G	9-3	Hamilton, Tony	Fahey, R A	227	4	108	20/1	171
6	1723526	138	Extra Elusive	5yo G	9-3	Watson, Jason	Charlton, R	57	6	106	20/1	164
5	125570	366	Dream Castle	6yo G	9-3 CkPc1	Buick, William	Suroor, Saeed Bin	88	10	108	16/1	164

What's Keith's Wolferton 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 Wolferton Stakes at Royal Ascot, and here's his thoughts ahead of the race:

No stats to go off as conditions changed in 2018 when this race stopped being a handicap. So we are basically peeing in the wind on this one.

Sixteen winners are due to go to post but I think it can be narrowed down to three, the trio are FOX TAI, Chester Vase winner SIR DRAGONET and REGAL REALITY trained by Michael Stoute.

Keith's final choice

13:50 REGAL REALITY 9/1 each way – A high-quality renewal of the Wolferton. Winter Derby winner DUBAI WARRIOR is interesting despite top weight if he can transfer his All-Weather form to turf. Chester Vase winner SIR DRAGONET is likely to find the trip too sharp. FOX TAL looks to be a false favourite and may be found wanting at this level despite being Group 1 placed in France at two. REGAL REALITY, however, has performed well at the highest level over the last two years picking up a couple of Group 3s along the way. This is a drop in class.

How it fared

REGAL REALITY 3RD – Heavy rain meant the going changed and as a consequence, the race cut up DUBAI warrior was one of three that never lined up. Held up and swung wide along with SIR DRAGONET (2nd) when entering the straight, in pursuit of better going, winner MOUNTAIN ANGEL got first run and stuck to the rail.

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Keith tipped Elarqam for the win in the Wolferton Stakes.

What our members tipped in the Wolferton 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. Here's they picked for the Wolferton Stakes:

The AP O’Brien/Ryan Moore combo on Sir Dragonet comes out on top here with 26.9% of the selections.
Fox Tal worth a mention with a smidge over 21%, if only to get my for fox sake joke in! Dubai Warrior trailing back in third with 16.7%

The finale of Day One and everything looks to be pointing towards Elarqam from the Pick 6 selections. Magic Wand a close second here with Addeybb picking up just over 13% of the selections.

Royal Ascot Wolferton Stakes Results 2019

1 Addeybb 5/1
2 Magic Wand 9/2f
3 Elarqam 5/1
4 Latrobe
16 ran Distances: 2 ½l, nse, sh

Our Verdict:
Our members and our tipster Keith both agreed on Elarqam to win the Wolferton, however it wasn’t to be. Despite Elarqam and Magic Wand being in the front group throughout the race, Addeybb came through in the run up to home to win comfortably with Magic Wand and Elarqam separated by a nose for second and third respectively.