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The 2027 Cambridgeshire Meeting
The Cambridgeshire Meeting is a three-day 'festival' that takes place at the Rowley Mile course at Newmarket in late September and can run into early October each year.
Over the three days of racing, there are a total of twenty-two races, ten of which are class one races, with Saturday, the final day of the meeting, being the highlight of the three days and a chance to see the progress of the youngsters, with five of the seven races being restricted to two-year-old runners.
We have individual blogs for all of the major races during the Cambridgeshire meeting (links below). These blogs are packed full of information dedicated to those individual races, which include trainer and jockey records in the race and plenty of trends to help you narrow down the fields. You can use those along with the horse racing predictions to find a bet in the race.
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Cambridgeshire Leading Trainers
- 2026 - Richard Hughes (3 Winners & 1 Place)
- 2025 - Charlie Appleby (3 Winners & 4 Places)
- 2024 - Charlie Appleby (2 winners & 2 Places)
- 2023 - Charlie Appleby (3 winners from 12 runners)
- 2022 - Charlie Appleby (5 winners from 14 runners)
Cambridgeshire Leading Jockeys
- 2026 - Ryan Moore (3 Winners & 2 Places)
- 2025 - Tom Marquand (3 Winners & 2 Places)
- 2024 - Ryan Moore (4 winners & 2 Places)
- 2023 - William Buick (4 winners & 1 Place)
- 2022 - William Buick (8 Winners & 3 Places)
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Cambridgeshire Meeting - Day One
The highlight on the opening day of the three-day Cambridgeshire meeting is the Group 3 Tattersalls Stakes, a seven-furlong race for two-year-old runners.
Thursday at the Cambridgeshire Meeting
| Race | Last Winner | Info |
|---|---|---|
| Tattersall Stakes | Fuel The Jet (IRE) 2yo - 13/2 | Tom Clover Neil Callan |
| Jockey Club Rose Bowl | Gregory (GB) 6yo - 4/7 | John & Thady Gosden James Doyle |
Cambridgeshire Meeting - Day Two
Day two of the Cambridgeshire is a step up from the opening day, with five class one races, the highlight being the Group 2 Joel Stakes contested over a mile. We also have the two-year-old race, the Rockfel Stakes, a Group 2 over seven furlongs.
Friday at the Cambridgeshire Meeting
| Race | Last Winner | Info |
|---|---|---|
| Rosemary Stakes | Alobayyah (GB) 4yo - 100/30 | William Haggas Tom Marquand |
| Princess Royal Stakes | Coedana (IRE) 4yo - 100/30 | Edward Bethell Connor Beasley |
| Rockfel Stakes | Pensando A Te (GB) 2yo - 15/2 | Marco Botti Silvestre De Sousa |
| Joel Stakes | Talk Of New York (GB) 3yo - 4/9 | Charlie Appleby William Buick |
| Godolphin Stakes | Fortitudine (IRE) 3yo - 15/8 | Charlie Appleby William Buick |
Cambridgeshire Meeting - Day Three
The Cambridgeshire Handicap is the highlight on the third and final day; it's a race which spans two counties! It starts in Cambridgeshire and ends in Suffolk! There are also a couple of valuable Group 1s on the final day with the Cheverley Park Stakes and the Middle Park Stakes.
Saturday at the Cambridgeshire Meeting
| Race | Last Winner | Info |
|---|---|---|
| Jersey Lily Fillies Nursery | Al Samsama (IRE) 2yo - 9/2 | Richard Hughes Billy Loughnane |
| Royal Lodge Stakes | Haffner (USA) 2yo - 7/4 | A P O'Brien Ryan Moore |
| Cheveley Park Stakes | Sun Goddess (IRE) 2yo - 5/6 | A P O'Brien Ryan Moore |
| Middle Park Stakes | Orthodox (GB) 2yo - 7/2 | Clive Cox Rossa Ryan |
| Cambridgeshire Handicap | Pierre Royal (IRE) 4yo - 33/1 | Adrian McGuinness Mikey Sheehy |
| Cambridgeshire Meeting Sprint Handicap | Sword (GB) 5yo - 20/1 | Stuart Williams Olivia Haines |
Cambridgeshire Meeting - Top Trainers
There are seven group races at the Cambridgeshire meeting each year, and in terms of winners, Aidan O'Brien leads the way by landing fifteen of those races over the last ten years, which is seven more than what anyone else has achieved, with Charlie Appleby hitting eight winners.
When it comes to handicap races, it is Charlie Appleby who leads the way with an impressive 38.89% strike rate with seven winners from eighteen runners over sixteen races, and that is just one winner's clear of John Gosden.
Here are the trainers in order of the number of winners at the Cambridgeshire meeting over the past ten years.
| Trainer | R-W-P | LSP |
|---|---|---|
| Appleby, Charlie | 83-21-37 | -10.08 |
| Gosden, J H M | 103-19-33 | +17.85 |
| O'Brien, A P | 74-17-35 | +16.80 |
| Balding, A M | 110-14-34 | -39.51 |
| Beckett, R M | 63-11-23 | -8.12 |
| Varian, Roger | 95-9-28 | -48.34 |
| Haggas, W J | 77-9-21 | +21.46 |
| Johnston, M | 55-8-20 | -7.24 |
| Suroor, Saeed Bin | 37-7-12 | +32.63 |
| Charlton, Roger/Harry | 29-7-13 | +9.04 |
Cambridgeshire Meeting - Top Jockeys
It may surprise a few that Ryan Moore is up there for handicap wins at the meeting with a total of six winners (from thirty-eight), but it is William Buick who leads the way when it comes to handicaps at the meeting with a total of nine winners (from forty-nine), with Oisin Murphy (8 from 57) splitting the pair.
When it comes to wins in Group races, Moore tops the list with twelve winners (from fifty-seven rides), but does show a loss of -8.04. Behind him, both with nine wins, are William Buick (from forty-one) and Oisin Murphy (from forty-seven).
Here are the jockeys in order of the number of winners at the Cambridgeshire meeting over the past ten years.
| Jockey | R-W-P | LSP |
|---|---|---|
| Moore, Ryan | 135-25-54 | -13.93 |
| Buick, William | 131-23-51 | -49.14 |
| Murphy, Oisin | 146-22-54 | -41.25 |
| Doyle, James | 74-10-34 | -37.67 |
| Atzeni, Andrea | 55-10-22 | +3.74 |
| Marquand, Tom | 98-8-21 | -12.84 |
| Ryan, Rossa | 51-8-16 | -7.99 |
| Egan, David | 63-5-11 | -29.09 |
| Havlin, Robert | 32-5-6 | +12.00 |
| De Sousa, Silvestre | 38-5-11 | -2.50 |
Article Contributor Information
We are fortunate to have an excellent team of specialists and experts at OLBG. Contributing to the creation and maintenance of this Cambridgeshire Meeting Preview are Andy and James. They both work on the Horse Racing Tips team, overseeing the tipsters and managing the tip settlement, while also creating and managing all the horse racing event previews for Flat racing.
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