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Last year was a good edition of the Middle Park Stakes run at Newmarket on Saturday.
Golden Horde was beaten into second but has since won the Commonwealth Cup. We must monitor who wins the 2020 Middle Park Stakes (1207m) at Newmarket on Saturday?
2020 MIDDLE PARK STAKES - RACE HISTORY AND BACKGROUND
The Middle Park Stakes is a Group 1 race run under Set Weight conditions for two year old colts at Newmarket conducted by the Jockey Club.
The Middle Park Stakes is run over six furlongs. It was first run in 1866 and was won by The Rake.
It is the first of the juvenile Group 1s of the season along with the Cheveley Park Stakes for the fillies on the same day.
Run down the Rowley Mile straight course on the last day of the Cambridgeshire meeting, it is named after the stud at Eltham.
When the Future Champions Day began at Newmarket, this was part of that but was brought forward to pattern into the Dewhurst Stakes.
Last horse to do the Middle Park/2000 Guineas double is Rodrigo de Triano in 1991.
Aidan O'Brien has six wins as leading trainer while most wins as a jockey is with Danny Maher, Sir Gordon Richards and Lester Piggott with six.
12 months on from his Middle Park and Dewhurst wins, US Navy Flag would win the July Cup and be slotted to head to Australia for The Everest. A year later Ten Sovereigns won this race and the July Cup and also headed to Australia.
The Middle Park Stakes was worth £220,000 in 2020 due to coronavirus cutbacks.
Notable winners of the Middle Park Stakes include Earthlight (2019), Ten Sovereigns (2018), U S Navy Flag (2017), Reckless Abandon (2012), Dream Ahead (2010), Ad Valorem (2004), Oasis Dream (2002), Johannesburg (2001), Royal Applause (1995), Rodrigo de Triano (1991), Diesis (1982), Brigadier Gerard (1970), Our Babu (1954), Nearula (1952), Abernant (1948), Dante (1944), Sun Chariot (1941), Djebel (1939), Scottish Union (1937), Felicitation (1932), Orwell (1931), Call Boy (1926), Tetratema (1919), Lemberg (1909), Bayardo (1908), Pretty Polly (1903), Galtee More (1896), St Frusquin (1895), Ladas (1893), Isinglass (1892), Orme (1891), Donovan (1888), Melton (1884), Busybody (1883) and Petrarch (1875).
The 2019 Middle Park Stakes was won by Earthlight from Golden Horde and Summer Sands.
