1000 Guineas Stakes

The 1000 Guineas Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old fillies. It is run on the Rowley Mile at Newmarket over one mile and takes place each year in late April or early May, on the Sunday following the 2000 Guineas Stakes. It is the second of Britain's five Classic races and the first of the two restricted to fillies, and it can open the Fillies Triple Crown, which continues with the Oaks and the St Leger. The first running was on 28 April 1814, five years after the 2000 Guineas, and both races were set up by the Jockey Club under Sir Charles Bunbury, who had earlier co-founded the Derby. The name comes from the original prize fund. Trial races include the Nell Gwyn Stakes and the Fred Darling Stakes, and the last horse to win both this race and the Oaks was Love in 2020.