British Champions Day at Ascot: Champion Stakes, Queen Elizabeth II Stakes and more – live

Ascot updates from 12.55pm BST start Balding v O’Brien can give Flat season fitting finaleWelcome to Ascot on Champions Day 2026, ahead of a seven-race card that stands at least a fair degree of comparison with the end-of-season jamborees in Paris two weeks ago, and in Keeneland later this month.For that, we owe thanks to the long, dry summer that has extended into mid-October. That means in turn that this year’s card will be one of the few without the word “soft” somewhere in the going description (although it is also, as the Racing Post’s columnist Richard Forristal pointed out earlier this week, “a pity that it required the world to burn for the event to work”). Continue reading…

12.55 Ascot, latest betting Here are the latest prices on the opening juvenile event at Ascot, courtesy of Oddschecker. Arapaho Gold- 5/2 Night in Vegas- 7/2 Satellite of Love- 4/1 Inner City Blues- 13/2 Speed of Sound- 14/1 Confucius- 22/1 Oakford- 25/1 BAR- 25/1 12.55 British Champions Day Two-Year-Old Conditions Stakes, 6f They will be in the parade ring imminently ahead of the most recent addition to the Champions Day schedule is still too young to have earned Pattern-race status, but last year’s winner, Mission Central, followed up in the Group One King Charles III Stakes at the Royal meeting here in the summer so it is off to a very strong start.

The favourite for the latest renewal is Arapaho Gold, who was the best horse at the weights when third in the Mill Reef Stakes at