2000 Guineas Stakes

The 2000 Guineas Stakes is a Group 1 flat race in Great Britain for three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies, run on the Rowley Mile at Newmarket over one mile at the start of May each year. It is the first of Britain's five Classic races to be run in the season and the opening leg of the Triple Crown, which continues with the Derby and the St Leger. It was first run on 18 April 1809, five years before the 1000 Guineas, and both races were established by the Jockey Club under Sir Charles Bunbury, an earlier co-founder of the Derby, and named for their original prize funds. Trial races include the Craven Stakes and the Greenham Stakes. The last horse to win both this race and the Derby was Camelot in 2012, and Aidan O'Brien holds the trainer record with ten wins.