2025-06-18
Winner: £90,195
Runners: 30
Going: Good To Firm
Distance: 1m0f0y
The Royal Hunt Cup is a cavalry charge handicap run over a mile. It takes place at 17:00 on Wednesday 18th June, which is the second day of Royal Ascot 2025. View the runners here, and also make sure to check out the odds and tips on offer for this race.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Year | Horse [Draw] | Age | Weight | SP | Trainer | Jockey |
2024 | Wild Tiger [20] | 5 | 9-0 | 11/2J | Saeed bin Suroor | Oisin Murphy |
2023 | Jimi Hendrix [7] | 4 | 9-5 | 22/1 | Ralph Beckett | Rossa Ryan |
2022 | Dark Shift [15] | 4 | 9-1 | 13/2 | Charles Hills | James McDonald |
2021 | Real World [4] | 4 | 8-6 | 18/1 | Saeed bin Suroor | Marco Ghiani (3) |
2020 | Dark Vision [11] | 4 | 9-1 | 15/2 | Mark Johnston | William Buick |
2019 | Afaak [21] | 5 | 9-3 | 20/1 | Charles Hills | Jim Crowley |
2018 | Settle For Bay [22] | 4 | 9-1 | 16/1 | David Marnane | W J Lee |
2017 | Zhui Feng [26] | 4 | 9-0 | 25/1 | Amanda Perrett | Martin Dwyer |
2016 | Portage [4] | 4 | 9-5 | 10/1 | M Halford | James Doyle |
2015 | Gm Hopkins [11] | 4 | 9-3 | 8/1 | John Gosden | Ryan Moore |
2014 | Field Of Dream [33] | 7 | 9-1 | 20/1 | Jamie Osborne | Adam Kirby |
Key trends
Other factors
There have been only four winning favourites in the last 35 years –True Panache in 1989, Yeast in 1996, Forgotten Voice in 2009 and Wild Tiger, who was joint favourite last year.
Only three of the last ten winners were drawn in single figures, while 2022 winner Dark Shift and last year’s scorer Wild Tiger were the only ones drawn between stalls 12 and 20.
Four winners wore some form of headgear.
WILD TIGER justified joint favouritism in a tight finish to this mile handicap on the straight course. The Saeed bin Suroor-trained arrived with an appealing, lightly raced profile and was bidding for a hat-trick after handicap wins at Yarmouth and Goodwood. Oisin Murphy rode the Godolphin five-year-old, who was sent off the 11-2 joint favourite, and he repelled all challengers from the front to score by a head from Sonny Liston. The first three were drawn in stalls 20,19 and 17 in the 29-runner field, while only one of the first 11 home came from a single-figure draw.