Lillie Langtry Stakes

The Lillie Langtry Stakes is a Group 2 flat horse race in Great Britain open to fillies and mares aged three years or older. It is run at Goodwood over a distance of 1 mile and 6 furlongs (2,816 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in late July or early August.

Lillie Langtry Stakes
Group 2 race
LocationGoodwood Racecourse
W. Sussex, England
Inaugurated2003
Race typeFlat / Thoroughbred
SponsorQatar Petroleum
WebsiteGoodwood
Race information
Distance1m 6f (2,816 metres)
SurfaceTurf
TrackRight-handed
QualificationThree-years-old and up
fillies & mares
Weight8 st 9 lb (3yo);
9 st 6 lb (4yo+)
Penalties
5 lb for Group 1 winners *
3 lb for Group 2 winners *
* after 2017
Purse£112,000 (2020)
1st: £70,888
Lillie Langtry Stakes
2020
Enbihaar Cabaletta Snow

History

The event was established in 2003, and it was initially titled the Gladness Stakes. It was named after Gladness, a successful racehorse whose victories included the Goodwood Cup in 1958. The inaugural running was classed at Listed level.

The race was renamed and promoted to Group 3 status in 2004. It was named after Lillie Langtry, a British actress who was a mistress of King Edward VII. Langtry owned Merman, the winner of the Goodwood Cup in 1899. As a woman she was not allowed to register the horse under her own name and used the pseudonym Mr Jersey, a reference to her place of birth.[1] In 1907 Langtry became Lady de Bathe when her husband succeeded to the baronetcy following the death of his father. The race was upgraded again to Group 2 status from the 2018 running.[2]

The Lillie Langtry Stakes was sponsored by Moët Hennessy from 2008 to 2010, and during this period it was known as the Moët Hennessy Fillies' Stakes. It was sponsored by BlackRock and run as the iShares Fillies' Stakes in 2011-12. In 2013 it was renamed the Blackrock Fillies' Stakes, and in 2014 it was sponsored by Sterling Insurance. From 2015 to 2017 the race was sponsored by Markel Insurance.

The race is currently held on the final day of the five-day Glorious Goodwood meeting.

Records

Most successful horse (2 wins):

  • Tartouche – 2005, 2006
  • Wild Coco - 2012, 2013
  • Enbihaar - 2019, 2020

Leading jockey (3 wins):

  • Seb Sanders – Moments of Joy (2003), Tartouche (2005, 2006)
  • Tom Queally - Sevenna (2009), Wild Coco (2012, 2013)
  • Jim Crowley - Missunited (2014), Enbihaar (2019, 2020)

Leading trainer (3 wins):

Winners
Year
 Winner
 Age
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Time
2003 Moments of Joy 3 Seb Sanders Rae Guest 3:02.77
2004 Astrocharm 5 Neil Callan Mark Tompkins 3:00.27
2005 Tartouche 4 Seb Sanders Lady Herries 3:07.81
2006 Tartouche 5 Seb Sanders Lady Herries 3:00.70
2007 Hi Calypso 3 Ryan Moore Sir Michael Stoute 3:02.47
2008 Gravitation 3 Alan Munro William Jarvis 3:04.67
2009 Sevenna 4 Tom Queally Henry Cecil 3:06.55
2010 Eastern Aria 4 Richard Hills Mark Johnston 2:58.05
2011 Meeznah 4 Frankie Dettori David Lanigan 2:57.61
2012 Wild Coco 4 Tom Queally Sir Henry Cecil 3:03.39
2013 Wild Coco 5 Tom Queally Lady Cecil 2:59.00
2014 Missunited 7 Jim Crowley Michael Winters 2:59.27
2015 Simple Verse 3 Harry Bentley Ralph Beckett 3:00.79
2016 California 4 Robert Havlin John Gosden 3:03.71
2017 Endless Time 5 William Buick Charlie Appleby 3:14.11
2018 Pilaster 3 David Egan Roger Varian 2:59.16
2019 Enbihaar 4 Jim Crowley John Gosden 2:58.69
2020 Enbihaar 5 Jim Crowley John Gosden 3:03.42

See also

References
  1. "The Goodwood Cup". Liverpool Mercury. 28 July 1899. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  2. "European Pattern Committee announces changes to the 2018 European Programme of Black Type Races". British Horseracing Authority. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
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