She’s the reigning champion! Queen has won £6.7m from horse racing prizes
UNLIKE many owners of race horses, the Queen follows the sport for the love of the turf rather than prize money.
But she has still managed to amass £6,704,941 in winnings over the past 30 years.
She stands as the 11th most successful owner in flat racing, recording 451 wins – a 15.9 per cent success rate.
New research shows that her most successful year in the business of flat racing was last year, when her horses earned her £557,650. The data, amassed by website myracing.com, has been cross-referenced against information from the British Horse Racing Authority for accuracy.
However it only dates back to 1988 when records became readily available. The Queen, of course, has been a prolific figure in the sport since the 1950s.
In the last 30 years she has averaged just over 15 race wins per year, with her prizes averaging out at £223,498 per year.
The British Horseracing Authority table is currently headed by Godolphin Racing, with 132 race wins and £5,513,737 in prizes.
Her Majesty’s most successful horse based on winning percentage is Elector, trained by Sir Michael Stoute, who has a 100 per cent win record. The Bay Colt is due to run at the Epsom Derby next June – and could secure a much-longed for success for the Queen, having never won in ten attempts.
But she will be one of the few at Epsom not to have a flutter.
According to her National Hunt Racing Manager Sir Michael Oswald, the Queen has never placed a wager in her life.
‘I have never known the Queen ever to have had a bet herself,’ he told the Mail a few years ago.
‘She has a sweepstake, about a pound an entry, in the box before the Derby. But that’s not betting on horses as such. For her the passion is having a horse that wins. There is nothing she doesn’t know about a horse’s pedigree.’