Tattersalls to sponsor Middle Park, Cheveley Park and Royal Lodge Stakes at Newmarket

Tattersalls will extend its sponsorship at Newmarket this year by sponsoring the Middle Park, Cheveley Park and Royal Lodge Stakes on Cambridgeshire day on the Rowley Mile.

The £275,000 Middle Park Stakes for colts and £275,000 Cheveley Park Stakes for fillies both carry Group 1 status and take place over six furlongs on September 27. 

Tattersalls will also extend its backing to the £125,000 Group 2 Royal Lodge Stakes, a mile contest for colts and geldings. Winners of all three contests regularly go on to contest the Classics the following year. Most recently, 2024 Cheveley Park Stakes heroine Lake Victoria went on to capture this season’s Tattersalls Irish 1,000 Guineas at the Curragh.

Tattersalls’ existing sponsorship at Newmarket includes the Group 1 Tattersalls Falmouth Stakes at the July festival and the £150,000 Tattersalls October Auction Stakes on Sun Chariot day on October 4.  

Newmarket racecourses' Sophie Able, international director of the Jockey Club, and Tattersalls director John Morrey Credit: Tattersalls

Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony said: "Tattersalls have long been proud supporters of British racing and Newmarket racecourses, and we are delighted to sponsor the 2025 editions of the time-honoured Middle Park, Cheveley Park, and Royal Lodge Stakes.

"These races complement our existing Newmarket sponsorships, which include the Group 1 Falmouth Stakes, the Group 3 Tattersalls Stakes, and the Somerville Auction Stakes and October Auction Stakes - both of which will be run for a minimum of £200,000 from 2026. The Cambridgeshire meeting is one of the highlights of the British racing calendar, and we look forward to an outstanding programme of two-year-old races of the highest calibre and to working with Newmarket racecourse in their promotion."

Sophie Able, Newmarket racecourses and international director of the Jockey Club, added: "There is always a tremendous energy about Newmarket in the autumn, with the combination of the world’s best bloodstock being sold in the ring at Tattersalls and racing of the highest class taking place on the Rowley Mile.

"We are therefore delighted to welcome Tattersalls as the sponsor of our three principal juvenile contests at the Cambridgeshire meeting in 2025."

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