The Newmarket Cambridgeshire Meeting Preview & Statistics

The 2025 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 is 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.

Over the three days remember to head over to the best horse racing tipsters page to see what those tipsters are backing at Newmarket, these are tipsters who have open tips and have shown a profit over the past twelve months.

Cambridgeshire Leading Trainers

• 2020 - Andrew Balding (3 Winners & 5 Places)
• 2021 - Saeed Bin Suroor (3 winners from just 6 runners)
• 2022 - Charlie Appleby (5 winners from 14 runners)
• 2023 - Charlie Appleby (3 winners from 12 runners)
• 2024 - Charlie Appleby (2 winners & 2 Places)

Cambridgeshire Leading Jockeys

• 2020 - Oisin Murphy (4 Winners & 4 Places)
• 2021 - Andrea Atzeni (4 Winners & 1 Place)
• 2022 - William Buick (8 Winners & 3 Places)
• 2023 - William Buick (4 winners & 1 Place)
• 2024 - Ryan Moore (4 winners & 2 Places)

Cambridgeshire Meeting - Day One

The highlight on the opening day is the Tattersall Stakes, a Group 3 race for two-year-old colts and geldings, a race where runners who ran in the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster are worth a second look and plenty has gone on to win this race after running at Doncaster.

Cambridgeshire Meeting - Day Two

There are three group races on Friday, the Princess Royal Stakes (G3), the Rockfel Stakes (G2) and the Joel Stakes (G2) and is a day to keep an eye on both John Gosden (x14) and William Haggas (x8), the pair has combined for a total of twenty-two winners on the Friday since 2012 from just fifty-eight races, backing all of their runners on this day would have produced an LSP of +88.01.

Cambridgeshire Meeting - Day Three

The final day of the meeting is the day that everyone looks forward to as it features the race of the meeting, the Cambridgeshire Handicap. It's a day when you can see which two-year-olds have progressed over the season and which ones go into the tracker for their three-year-old season as we have the Royal Lodge Stakes (G2), Cheveley Park Stakes (G1) and the Middle Park Stakes (G1), three group races which are all restricted to two-year-old runners. Aidan O'Brien is a man to keep an eye on for the final day, not only does he lead the number of winners (11) but shows a 23% strike rate and an LSP of +50.43 to go along with that since 2016.

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 fourteen of those races over the last ten years, which is more than double what anyone else has achieved with John Gosden hitting six winners.

When it comes to handicap races, it is Charlie Appleby who leads the way with an impressive 41.67% strike rate with ten winners from twenty-four runners and that is five winners clear of John Gosden.

Here are the trainers in order of the number of winners at the Cambridgeshire meeting over the past ten years.

Most Profitable Trainers at the Cambridgeshire Meeting at Exchange SP (Win)

• Meade, Freddie and Martyn (2 Winners +118.96)
• O'Brien, A P (16 Winners +73.36)
• Suroor, Saeed Bin (9 Winners +37.78)
• Wall, C F (4 Winners +31.65)
• Cole, P F I (2 Winners +31.21)

Most Profitable Trainers at the Cambridgeshire Meeting at Exchange SP (Place)

• Fahey, R A (11 Placings +40.66)
• O'Brien, A P (36 Placings +36.70)
• Crisford, Simon (15 Placings +32.18)
• Fanshawe, J R (6 Placings +21.61)
• O'Brien, Donnacha  (2 Placings +17.62)

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 five winners (from forty-two) but it is William Buick who leads the way when it comes to handicaps at the meeting with a total of fourteen winners (from fifty-five) with Oisin Murphy (7 from 46) splitting the pair.

When it comes to wins in Group races, Moore tops the list with twelve winners (from sixty-three rides) but does show a loss of -8.21, behind him with eight wins is Oisin Murphy (from thirty-six) and then William Buick (from thirty-seven) with seven wins.

Here are the jockeys in order of the number of winners at the Cambridgeshire meeting over the past ten years.

Most Profitable Jockeys at the Cambridgeshire Meeting at Exchange SP (Win)

• Dettori, L (18 Winners +70.84)
• Heffernan, J A (2 Winners +48.63)
• Shepherd, Callum (2 Winners +38.50)
• Harley, M (2 Winners +29.94)
• Fanning, Joe (2 Winners +24.01)

Most Profitable Jockeys at the Cambridgeshire Meeting at Exchange SP (Place)

• McHugh, B (2 Placings +64.43)
• Doyle, James (36 Placings +26.30)
• Harley, M (4 Placings +24.17)
• Lordan, W M (3 Placings +19.69)
• Heffernan, J A (4 Placings +15.03)

Other Principal Races at Newmarket Racecourse

Here are some other notable races at the Newmarket racecourse throughout the racing season that you may be interested in.

Races in April (Craven Meeting)

• Abernant Stakes
• Craven Stakes
• Earl Of Sefton Stakes
• Nell Gwyn Stakes

Races in May (Guineas Festival)

• Jockey Club Stakes
• King Charles II Stakes
• Newmarket Stakes
• Palace House Stakes
• Qipco 2000 Guineas
• Rowley Handicap Stakes
• Suffolk Stakes
• Dahlia Stakes
• Pretty Polly Stakes
• Qipco 1000 Guineas

Races in July (July Festival)

• Bahrain Trophy Stakes
• bet365 Sprint Handicap
• July Stakes
• Princess of Wales's Stakes
• bet365 Handicap
• Duchess of Cambridge Stakes
• Falmouth Stakes
• bet365 Mile Handicap
• Bunbury Cup
• July Cup
• Superlative Stakes

Races in October

• Sun Chariot Stakes

Races in October (Future Champions Festival)

• bet365 Fillies Mile
• Challenge Stakes
• Old Rowley Cup
• Cesarewitch
• Dewhurst Stakes