{"id":203430,"date":"2026-04-20T16:09:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203430\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:09:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:09:27","slug":"the-king-and-queens-surprising-enjoyment-of-horseracing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203430\/","title":{"rendered":"The King and Queen’s ‘surprising’ enjoyment of horseracing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The late Queen Elizabeth II<\/a> was famed for her love of horse racing. And now it seems that her son King Charles<\/a> has enthusiastically taken up the reins.<\/p>\n

Although it would be hard to match his mother\u2019s immense passion for the sport, the monarch and his wife,\u00a0Queen Camilla<\/a>, are said to be fully embracing their involvement in it.<\/p>\n

John Warren \u2013 their racing manager \u2013 has said that even he has been surprised at how much enjoyment the King and Queen are getting from horse racing.<\/p>\n

“I’m so thrilled for the King and Queen because they’re getting so much pleasure out of their horses,” he said.<\/p>\n

\"John\u00a9 Getty ImagesJohn Warren, the King’s racing manager, watches on with the King and Queen at Royal Ascot in 2025<\/p>\n

“I never thought they would get as much pleasure as they are. I always thought the Queen might, but I didn’t know the King was going to be, as he is so caught up with so many other things.<\/p>\n

“But they get so much pleasure out of their horses which is so nice because they give so much. And to get a few little pleasures, it is really nice to see it happen. It’s exciting going forward.”<\/p>\n

\"King\u00a9 Getty ImagesKing Charles and Queen Camilla meet racehorse Stradivarius<\/p>\n

John spoke after one of the royal couple\u2019s most talented colts, Portcullis, won at Newmarket\u2019s historic Craven Meeting last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The three-year-old was sired by the legendary Frankel and could go on to make a name for himself in some of the sport\u2019s biggest races.<\/p>\n

John was the late Queen\u2019s racing and bloodstock advisor for more than thirteen years and was often pictured at her side in the royal box during race meetings including at Royal Ascot.<\/p>\n

\"the\u00a9 Photo: Getty ImagesThe Queen and her racing manager, John Warren, celebrate a win at Newbury in 2013<\/p>\n

She spoke to him most days about the thoroughbreds she owned and bred for Flat and Jump racing and wom more than 1,600 races as an owner, including four of the five Classics.<\/p>\n

\u00a0After her death the racehorses registered in her name were transferred to the ownership of “HM The King & HM The Queen”.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t an entirely new interest for the King. As an amateur jockey, he rode in the Kim Muir Challenge Cup at the 1981 Cheltenham Festival and has been around horses all his life<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Queen Camilla has had an interest in racing for many years and had already owned a number of racehorses with friends, as well as becoming patron of The National Stud in November 2018.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In May 2024, she and Charles became the first ever Joint Patrons of The Jockey Club, the largest commercial organisation in British racing which is governed by Royal Charter to reinvest every penny of its profits back into the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The late Queen Elizabeth II was famed for her love of horse racing. And now it seems that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1428,9,24,12,63,1433,122,124,123,1431],"class_list":{"0":"post-203430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-king-charles","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-queen-camilla","14":"tag-queens","15":"tag-queens-headlines","16":"tag-queens-news","17":"tag-royalty"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}