Juddmonte Farms to sponsor G1 Middle Park S.

Newmarket Racecourses have announced that Juddmonte Farms has signed a three-year deal to sponsor the G1 Middle Park S., to be run at Newmarket’s Rowley Mile Racecourse Sept. 26. This sponsorship adds to the existing association with the G2 Royal Lodge S., another juvenile event held on the same card and which has been sponsored by Juddmonte since 2006. The Juddmonte Middle Park S., a six-furlong £180,000 contest for 2-year-old colts, will be celebrating its 150th running this year. Recent winners include the Juddmonte homebred Oasis Dream (GB) (Green Desert), who went on to score in the G1 July Cup and now forms part of the stellar stallion roster available at Prince Khalid Abdullah’s Banstead Manor Stud on the outskirts of Newmarket. 

The roll of honor for the one mile Royal Lodge S., which returned to Newmarket in 2011 having previously been held at Ascot, also features several Juddmonte-breds headed by the greatest of them all, Frankel (GB) (Galileo {Ire}), who won the race in 2010 on the third of his 14 victorious starts. He too now stands at Banstead Manor Stud, and his first yearlings will be eagerly awaited at this year’s sales.

Douglas Erskine Crum, CEO of the Juddmonte Group, said, “Juddmonte Farms is delighted to sponsor one of the top Group 1 2-year-old races in Europe with the history of the Middle Park, especially as Prince Khalid has won it twice with successful sires Known Fact and Oasis Dream. Running this race alongside the Royal Lodge, which was won by Frankel, is a great attraction as well. With Frankel and Bated Breath’s first 2-year-olds hitting the track next year it makes our sponsorship on this day all the more exciting. Juddmonte has a long history of sponsorship and believes that this supports the industry and upholds the quality of such races.”

Amy Starkey, Regional Director of the Jockey Club Racecourses in the East Region, added, “We are delighted to welcome His Highness Prince Khalid’s Juddmonte Farms as the new sponsor of the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes which becomes part of the Cambridgeshire Meeting once again later this year. Juddmonte Farms are already a much valued partner at the popular meeting, having sponsored the Royal Lodge Stakes since 2011. We are delighted with this new arrangement which means that the Home of Racing and one of the most prestigious stud farms in the world will work together to promote two of Britain’s most famous flat races for the next three years.”