St James's Palace Stakes Odds

The St James's Palace Stakes is a Group One race run over seven furlongs, 213 yards and is open to three-year-old colts. One of the highlights on the opening day of Royal Ascot, the St James's Palace Stakes takes place on the round course and is a contest that can often attract those colts that have run in the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket the month before. You can find the latest odds for the 2020 St James's Palace Stakes a little closer to the time. 

St James's Palace Stakes Tips 

The St James's Palace Stakes is one of the blue riband events of Royal Ascot, and you can find our 2020 St James's Palace Stakes here...

What is the St James's Palace Stakes? 

The St James's Palace Stakes is a Grade One race run on the opening day of Royal Ascot, and is open to three-year-old colts.

Contested on the Tuesday of Royal Ascot, the St James's Palace Stakes can attract the Classic generation that have competed in the English, Irish or French 2000 Guineas earlier in the season, and it can often be a race that determine who is the best three-year-old miler. First run in 1834, the St James's Palace Stakes has grown in stature down the years and has been won by some of Flat racing's biggest names including Giant's Causeway (2000), Rock Of Gibraltar (2002) and Frankel (2011) in recent times.

What happened in the 2019 St James's Palace Stakes? 

John Gosden's Too Darn Hot was sent off a short-priced favourite for the 2019 renewal, but the 2/1 favourite could only finish third behind the Aidan O'Brien-trained Circus Maximus and King Of Comedy, who was the second shot fired by Gosden. Circus Maximus chased the leaders for most of the race before unleashing his challenge in the closing stages and he went on to claim the win by one-and-a-quarter lengths.