1000 Guineas Race - Betting, Odds and Race History

Date: 2025.05.04

The 1000 Guineas Stakes will take place at the Rowley Mile in Newmarket, Suffolk, which is a mile-long (1609m) straight turf track.

The 1000 Guineas Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race that is open to all three year-old fillies. The 1000 Guineas Stakes serves as the first part of the Fillies' Triple Crown.





The race first started all the way back in 1814 and has grown in prominence since then. The 2024 purse was $1,000,000, with the winner taking home slightly more than half of that amount.

The name 1000 Guineas refers to the original prize fund of 1000 guineas, a unit of currency used in the UK at that time.

These days the 1000 Guineas Stakes is one of the five British Classics, a series of races that are considered the pinnacle of flat racing for three-year-olds.


2024 Winner:

Horse: Elmalka
Jockey: Silvestre De Sousa
Trainer: Roger Varian

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The race typically takes place in late April or early May, two days after the 2000 Guineas Stakes, which is for colts and fillies.

The 1000 Guineas is a key race in determining the leading fillies of their generation and is often used as a stepping stone to other major races, such as the Epsom Oaks and the Coronation Stakes.

Like with the 2000 Guineas, trainer Aidan O'Brien and the Magnier/Tabor/Smith ownership team has their fingerprints all over this race, as they have won three of the last seven 1000 Guineas Stakes races (2012 with Homecoming Queen, 2016 with Minding and 2017 with Winter).