A Dictionary Of Horse Racing Terms – C – Part 2
CLASS A:
Flat race classifications are from Class A through to Class G. This determines the methodology for framing conditions races.
CLASSICS:
Reference to a horse race that has been around for a very long time. These races of longstanding tend to attract the best horses and have become regarded as the highest quality of racing. The classics are open only to 3 yos and above and there are 5 of them in England.
The Classics are currently:
New market, spring, 2000 guineas colts and fillies, first run in 1809
New market, spring, 1000 guineas, fillies only, first run 1814
Epsom 1.5 miles, summer, derby colts and fillies, 1780
Epsom 1.5 miles, summer, oaks, Fillies only, first run 1779
Doncaster 1 miles, autumn, st ledger, Colts and Fillies, first run 1776
Fillies rarely contest the 2000 guineas or the oaks nowadays with trainers tending to run them only in the classic equivalents for Fillies only: the oaks (fillies) and the 1000 guineas.
Originally nobody set out to establish a set of classic races, they merely evolved, and became universally...
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