** Ascot Gold Cup, major race held at the Ascot racecourse.

Model of Ascot Racecourse | Ascot racecourse

The majority of the estate by value is urban, including a large number of properties in central London, but the estate also owns 144, 000 ha ( 356, 000 ac ) of agricultural land and forest, more than half of the UK's foreshore, and retains various other traditional holdings and rights, for example Ascot racecourse and Windsor Great Park.

Ascot Racecourse () is a famous English racecourse, located in the small town of Ascot, Berkshire, used for thoroughbred horse racing.

In 1913 Parliament passed an act creating the Ascot Authority, an entity that manages the racecourse to this day.

As owner of the Ascot estate, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth reopened the racecourse on Tuesday 20 June 2006.

The racecourse is also home to Royal Ascot Cricket Club, which was founded in 1897 and their ground is situated in the middle of the racecourse.

The racecourse is the setting for a scene in the musical My Fair Lady and the subject for the song " Ascot Gavotte ".

In 1882 a railway line was built from Eagle Junction to Ascot for access to the racecourse that had already been established.

Former 1920 racecourse tram station and southern exit at Ascot Street.

Ascot Racecourse is the major racecourse in Perth, Western Australia, situated approximately 8 kilometres east of the Perth central business district, with the headquarters of the Western Australian Turf Club ( WATC ) positioned directly opposite.

In the days when race traffic for the nearby Ascot Racecourse warranted it, a separate racecourse station known as Ascot Race Course Platform or Ascot West operated nearby from 1922 to 1965.

The residences at their disposal over the years included the Greentree estate on Long Island ; a plantation in Georgia ; a town house and an elegant apartment in Manhattan ; a large summer house on Fishers Island, near New London, Connecticut ; a 12-room house in Saratoga Springs, which the Whitneys used when they attended horse races ; a golfing cottage in Augusta, Ga .; and a spacious house in Surrey, England, near the Ascot racecourse.

It was temporarily switched to Newmarket in 2005, when Ascot was closed for redevelopment.

The race was first staged at Newmarket in 2005, when Ascot was closed for redevelopment.

The station did have a ticket office but it has since closed, like at Seacliff and Ascot Park.

In 2005, York Racecourse was host to the Ascot Royal Meeting, including the Ascot Gold Cup, due to its usual home at Ascot Racecourse being closed for a £ 185 million redevelopment.

When Riverside closed in 1988, it followed in the footsteps of Ontario Motor Speedway ( in nearby Ontario ), which closed in 1980, and followed by Ascot Park in Gardena in 1991.

Having already moved from its ground at Kent Street, Ascot Vale (" McCracken's Paddock ") to Flemington Hill, the club was again forced to move in 1881 ; and, because the City of Essendon mayor of the day, James Taylor, considered the Essendon Cricket Ground " to be suitable only for the gentleman's game of cricket ", Essendon moved to East Melbourne.

Alexandra deputised for him at a military parade, and attended the Royal Ascot races without him, in an attempt to prevent public alarm.

In July, Nijinsky raced against older horses for the first time in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot.

The black-and-white costumes designed by Cecil Beaton for the Royal Ascot sequence in My Fair Lady were inspired by the " Black Ascot " of 1910, when the court was in mourning for Victoria's son, Edward VII.

By Edwardian times, Boulter's Lock nearby became a favoured resort especially on Ascot Sunday, and the Skindles hotel developed a reputation for illicit liaisons.

Horses pulling a large carriage known as a " covered brake " collect the Yeoman of the Guard in their distinctive red uniforms from St James's Palace for Investitures at Buckingham Palace ; High Commissioners or Ambassadors are driven to their audiences with The Queen in landaus ; visiting heads of state are transported to and from official arrival ceremonies and members of the Royal Family are driven in Royal Mews coaches during Trooping the Colour, the Order of the Garter service at Windsor Castle and carriage processions at the beginning of each day of Royal Ascot.

At all other times, passengers from Camberley must change at Ascot or Ash Vale for connections to London.

They lived in London, Ascot and for most of the war at Parmoor House, Frieth in Buckimghamshire.

Alternatives: In the 1960s, it was fashionable for men as well as women to wear scarves with a suit in a tied knot either inside a shirt as an Ascot or under the collar as would be worn like a tie.

He also refuses to adopt the pairing system in which he can agree a mutual abstention with a Conservative MP, saying he won't cover for them whilst they " go swanning off to Ascot or to their boardrooms ".

Maybe this was the reason he was drawn to horse racing ; a dull day stalking the covers might be enlivened for him by thoughts of how his money was faring on the 3: 15 at Ascot or Goodwood.

The village has two rows of shops, although many inhabitants travel to the nearby towns of Staines-upon-Thames, Ascot and Windsor for shopping.

As well as having normal full fee paying students, Licensed Victuallers ' School in Ascot provides discounted education prices for the children of landlords and others in the catering industry.

Instead of being tested over one and a half miles in the Epsom Derby, Brigadier Gerard was kept to the one mile distance for the St. James's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.

In July he moved up to one and half miles for the first time in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot.

Tram route 57 tram provides public transport from Flinders Street Station in the city to Cordite Avenue, West Maribyrnong, on the border of Maidstone, while tram route 82 tram provides public transport from Moonee Ponds ( Ascot Vale Road / Puckle Street ) to Footscray ( Leeds Street / Irving Street ) passing through Maidstone for a segment of its journey.

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) for services to racing in 1997 and Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order ( KCVO ) in the 2009 New Year Honours for his services as Her Majesty's Representative at Ascot.

Arsenal appointed Sir Robert McAlpine in January 2002 to carry out building work and the stadium was designed by HOK Sport, who were the architects for Stadium Australia and the redevelopment of Ascot Racecourse.

The idea was conceived by Major John Crocker Bulteel, the Clerk of the Course at Ascot, who wanted to create an important international race over 1½ miles for horses aged three or older.

In June 2007, O ' Donoghue attended the Royal Ascot race meeting over a four day period and Gallagher's firm was paid a total of € 3, 582. 22, according to the official receipts.

Furthermore, the Generation of ' 27, as clearly reflected in the literary press of the period, was not exclusively restricted to poets, including artists such as Luis Buñuel, the caricaturist K-Hito, the surrealist painters Salvador Dalí and Óscar Domínguez, the painter and sculptor Maruja Mallo, as well as Benjamín Palencia, Gregorio Prieto, Manuel Ángeles Ortiz and Gabriel García Maroto, the toreros Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, Rodolfo Halffter and Jesús Bal y Gay, musicologists and composers belonging to the Group of Eight, including Bal and Gay, Ernesto Halffter and his brother Rodolfo, Juan José Mantecón, Julián Bautista, Fernando Remacha, Rosa García Ascot, Salvador Bacarisse and Gustavo Pittaluga.

When a student protested being denied entry to the Stewards ' Enclosure for failing to meet the dress code, saying she had worn the dress " in the Royal Enclosure at Ascot and nobody said anything ," a spokesman defended the dress code saying " The intention is to maintain the atmosphere of an English Garden party of the Edwardian period by wearing a more traditional dress.

Between these two victories, Fallon lost his Champion Jockey title after a serious arm injury sustained in a fall in June 2000 at Royal Ascot forced him to miss several months race-riding.

Ascot today stages twenty-six days of Flat racing over the course of the year, comprising eighteen Flat meetings held between the months of May and October inclusive.