{"id":26039,"date":"2025-07-26T23:33:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T23:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/26039\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T23:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T23:33:16","slug":"queen-presents-winners-trophy-at-ascot-after-king-george-race-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/26039\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen presents winner\u2019s trophy at Ascot after King George race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Camilla was at the Berkshire racecourse on Saturday afternoon for one of the highlights of the British flat racing calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Dressed in white, she was seen laughing with racing manager John Warren and Sir Francis Brooke, the King\u2019s representative at Ascot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2.81105573.jpg\" alt=\"Queen Camilla speaking with John Warren and Sir Francis Brooke at Ascot\" data-title=\"Ascot Races \u2013 Saturday July 26th\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"John Walton\" data-usage-terms=\"Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder.\"  \/>Camilla speaking to John Warren and Sir Francis Brooke (John Walton\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>French-trained Calandagan, ridden by Mickael Barzalona, won the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes, beating Kalpana.<\/p>\n<p>The Queen presented the trophy after the race.<\/p>\n<p>Camilla\u2019s visit to Ascot comes just weeks after she joined the King at Royal Ascot, where the couple were seen watching the action from the royal box.<\/p>\n<p>During the five-day meeting, the King shared a warm exchange with Sarah, Duchess of York, in the parade ring, while his horse Purple Rainbow was beaten in the Sandringham Stakes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2.81105921.jpg\" alt=\"Ascot Races \u2013 Saturday July 26th\" data-title=\"Ascot Races \u2013 Saturday July 26th\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"John Walton\" data-usage-terms=\"Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder.\"  \/>Jockey Mickael Barzalona with trainer Francis Henri Graffard after Calandagan won the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot Racecourse (John Walton\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>The late\u00a0Queen\u00a0Elizabeth II was a passionate owner and breeder of thoroughbreds and had more than 20 Royal\u00a0Ascot\u00a0winners during her 70-year reign.<\/p>\n<p>Charles and Camilla have taken on her stable of horses and enjoyed their first Royal\u00a0Ascot\u00a0winner in 2023 when their horse Desert Hero triumphed in the King George V Stakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Camilla was at the Berkshire racecourse on Saturday afternoon for one of the highlights of the British flat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-26039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}