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The 2026 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.
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Cambridgeshire Leading Trainers
- 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)
- 2021 - Saeed Bin Suroor (3 winners from just 6 runners)
Cambridgeshire Leading Jockeys
- 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)
- 2021 - Andrea Atzeni (4 Winners & 1 Place)
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Cambridgeshire Meeting - Day One
Thursday at the Cambridgeshire Meeting
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.
| Race | Last Winner | Info |
|---|---|---|
| Tattersall Stakes | Distant Storm (GB) 2yo - 6/5 | Charlie Appleby William Buick |
| Jockey Club Rose Bowl | Miss Alpilles (GB) 4yo - 20/1 | Ed Walker Kieran Shoemark |
Cambridgeshire Meeting - Day Two
Friday at the Cambridgeshire Meeting
Day two of the Cambridgeshire is a step up from the opening day with five class one races, the highlight being the £125k Group 2 Joel Stakes contested over a mile. We also have the two-year-old race, the Rockfel Stakes, which carries a purse of £100k.
| Race | Last Winner | Info |
|---|---|---|
| Rosemary Stakes | Francophone (GB) 4yo - 9/1 | Charlie Johnston Joe Fanning |
| Princess Royal Stakes | Silent Love (IRE) 3yo - 4/1 | Charlie Appleby Billy Loughnane |
| Rockfel Stakes | Zanthos (FR) 2yo - 15/2 | Simon & Ed Crisford Oisin Murphy |
| Joel Stakes | Zeus Olympios (GB) 3yo - 2/1 | K R Burke Clifford Lee |
| Godolphin Stakes | Lions Pride (GB) 5yo - 20/1 | John & Thady Gosden Robert Havlin |
Cambridgeshire Meeting - Day Three
Saturday at the Cambridgeshire Meeting
The Cambridgeshire Handicap is the highlight on the third and final day, carrying a purse of £175k; 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, which both carry a purse of £275k.
| Race | Last Winner | Info |
|---|---|---|
| Royal Lodge Stakes | Bow Echo (IRE) 2yo - 85/40 | George Boughey Billy Loughnane |
| Cheveley Park Stakes | True Love (IRE) 2yo - 2/1 | A P O'Brien Wayne Lordan |
| Middle Park Stakes | Wise Approach (IRE) 2yo - 11/8 | Charlie Appleby William Buick |
| Cambridgeshire Handicap | Boiling Point (IRE) 4yo - 14/1 | K R Burke Clifford Lee |
| Jersey Lily Fillies Nursery | Quiescent (GB) 2yo - 11/4 | Hamad Al Jehani Jack Nicholls |
| Cambridgeshire Meeting Sprint Handicap | Elarak (GB) 3yo - 18/1 | Charles Hills Tom Marquand |
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 more than double what anyone else has achieved, with Charlie Appleby hitting seven winners.
When it comes to handicap races, it is Charlie Appleby who leads the way with an impressive 40.91% strike rate with nine winners from twenty-two runners over twenty races, and that is four 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.
| Trainer | R-W-P | LSP |
|---|---|---|
| Appleby, Charlie | 85-21-39 | -8.52 |
| Gosden, J H M | 108-19-35 | +16.66 |
| O'Brien, A P | 78-17-38 | +42.72 |
| Balding, A M | 101-13-31 | -32.76 |
| Beckett, R M | 62-11-21 | -7.12 |
| Varian, Roger | 91-10-30 | -29.34 |
| Haggas, W J | 76-8-20 | -1.62 |
| Suroor, Saeed Bin | 43-7-16 | +26.63 |
| Charlton, Roger/Harry | 28-7-13 | +10.04 |
| Palmer, Hugo | 36-6-10 | +4.08 |
Most Profitable Trainers at the Cambridgeshire Meeting at Exchange SP (Win)
- Meade, Freddie and Martyn (2 Winners +120.96)
- O'Brien, A P (17 Winners +72.40)
- Channon, M R (2 Winners +39.01)
- Cole, P F I (2 Winners +31.21)
- Suroor, Saeed Bin (7 Winners +30.68)
Most Profitable Trainers at the Cambridgeshire Meeting at Exchange SP (Place)
- O'Brien, A P (38 Placings +37.52)
- Fahey, R A (8 Placings +37.04)
- Crisford, Simon (16 Placings +31.98)
- O'Brien, Donnacha (3 Placings +19.33)
- Walker, Ed (10 Placings +15.11)
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 thirty-nine), but it is William Buick who leads the way when it comes to handicaps at the meeting with a total of eleven winners (from fifty-three), with Oisin Murphy (7 from 52) splitting the pair.
When it comes to wins in Group races, Moore tops the list with eleven winners (from fifty-eight rides), but does show a loss of -5.12. Behind him with nine wins is Oisin Murphy (from forty-one) and then William Buick (from forty) with eight wins.
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 | 142-24-57 | -22.13 |
| Buick, William | 136-23-56 | -50.58 |
| Murphy, Oisin | 135-21-48 | -32.50 |
| Dettori, L | 57-12-25 | +38.71 |
| Doyle, James | 79-11-35 | -27.04 |
| Crowley, Jim | 68-10-26 | -9.66 |
| Atzeni, Andrea | 57-10-22 | +1.74 |
| Ryan, Rossa | 40-7-12 | -1.49 |
| Marquand, Tom | 88-6-18 | -30.17 |
| Havlin, Robert | 33-5-8 | +14.00 |
Most Profitable Jockeys at the Cambridgeshire Meeting at Exchange SP (Win)
- Dettori, L (12 Winners +60.83)
- Heffernan, J A (2 Winners +48.63)
- Shepherd, Callum (2 Winners +38.50)
- Fanning, Joe (3 Winners +36.12)
- Harley, M (2 Winners +29.94)
Most Profitable Jockeys at the Cambridgeshire Meeting at Exchange SP (Place)
- McHugh, B (2 Placings +64.43)
- Doyle, James (35 Placings +24.61)
- Harley, M (4 Placings +24.17)
- Hanagan, Paul (5 Placings +23.87)
- Lordan, W M (6 Placings +22.92)
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, looking after the tipsters and managing the tips settlement, whilst also creating and managing all of the horse racing event previews for Flat Racing.
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