The Cambridgeshire Handicap is a
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handicap horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three years or older. It is run on the Rowley Mile at
Newmarket over a distance of 1 mile and 1 furlong (1,811 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in late September.
History
The event was established in 1839, and the inaugural running was won by Lanercost. It was founded in the same year as another major handicap at Newmarket, the
Cesarewitch
The Cesarewitch Handicap is a flat handicap horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three years or older. It is run at Newmarket over a distance of 2 miles and 2 furlongs (3,621 metres ...
. The two races came to be known as the Autumn Double.
The Cesarewitch initially took place before the Cambridgeshire, but the schedule was later reversed and the Cambridgeshire now precedes the other race by two weeks. Three horses completed the double in the 19th century — Rosebery (1876),
Foxhall (1881) and
Plaisanterie (1885) — but the feat has been rarely attempted since then.
The Cambridgeshire Handicap is currently held on the final day of Newmarket's three-day Cambridgeshire Meeting.
Records
Most successful horse (2 wins):
* Hackler's Pride – ''1903, 1904''
* Christmas Daisy – ''1909, 1910''
* Sterope – ''1948, 1949''
* Prince de Galles – ''1969, 1970''
* Baronet – ''1978, 1980''
* Rambo's Hall – ''1989, 1992''
* Bronze Angel - ''2012, 2014''
Leading
jockey (4 wins):
*
Nat Flatman
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– ''Vulcan (1841), Evenus (1844), Alarm (1845), Scherz (1854)''
*
George Fordham – ''Little David (1853), Odd Trick (1857), See Saw (1868), Sabinus (1871)''
Leading
trainer (5 wins):
*
John Gosden
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– ''Halling (1994), Pipedreamer (2007), Tazeez (2008), Wissahickon (2018), Lord North (2019)''
: ''(note: the trainers of some of the early winners are unknown)''
Winners since 1977
* ''Weights given in stones and pounds.''
Earlier winners
* 1839: Lanercost
* 1840: Roscius
* 1841: Vulcan
* 1842: Ralph
* 1843: Nat
* 1844: Evenus
* 1845: Alarm
* 1846: Prior of St Margarets
* 1847: The Widow
* 1848: Dacia
* 1849: Raby
* 1850: Landgrave
* 1851: Truth
* 1852: Knight of the Shire
* 1853: Little David
* 1854: Scherz
* 1855: Sultan
* 1856: Malacca
* 1857: Odd Trick
* 1858: Eurydice
* 1859: Red Eagle
* 1860: Weatherbound
* 1861: Palestro
* 1862: Bathilde
* 1863: Catch 'em Alive
* 1864: Ackworth
* 1865: Gardevisure
* 1866: Actaea
* 1867: Lozenge
* 1868: See Saw
* 1869: Vestminster
* 1870: Adonis
* 1871: Sabinus
* 1872: Playfair
* 1873: Montargis
* 1874: Peut-etre
* 1875: Sutton
* 1876: Rosebery
* 1877: Jongleur
* 1878:
Isonomy
* 1879: La Merveille
* 1880: Lucetta
* 1881:
Foxhall
* 1882: Hackness
* 1883:
Bendigo
* 1884: Florence
* 1885:
Plaisanterie
* 1886: The Sailor Prince
* 1887: Gloriation
* 1888: Veracity
* 1889: Laureate
* 1890: Alicante
* 1891: Comedy
* 1892:
La Fleche
* 1893: Molly Morgan
* 1894: Indian Queen
* 1895: Marco
* 1896: Winkfield's Pride
* 1897: Comfrey
* 1898: Georgic
* 1899: Irish Ivy
* 1900: Berrill
* 1901: Watershed
* 1902: Ballantrae
* 1903: Hackler's Pride
* 1904: Hackler's Pride
* 1905: Velocity
* 1906:
Polymelus
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* 1907: Land League
* 1908: Marcovil
* 1909: Christmas Daisy
* 1910: Christmas Daisy
* 1911: Long Set
* 1912: Adam Bede
* 1913: Cantilever
* 1914: Honeywood
* 1915: Silver Tag
* 1916: Eos
* 1917: Brown Prince
* 1918: Zinovia
* 1919: Brigand
* 1920: ''no race''
* 1921: Milenko
* 1922: Re-echo
* 1923: Verdict
* 1924: Twelve Pointer
* 1925: Masked Marvel
* 1926: Insight
* 1927: Medal / Niantic
1
* 1928: Palais Royal
* 1929: Double Life
* 1930: The Pen
* 1931: Disarmament
* 1932: Pullover
* 1933: Raymond
* 1934: Wychwood Abbot
* 1935: Commander
* 1936: Dan Bulger
* 1937: Artist's Prince
* 1938: Helleniqua
* 1939: i) Gyroscope, ii) Orichalque
2
* 1940: Caxton
3
* 1941: Rue de la Paix
* 1942: ''no race''
* 1943: Quartier-Maitre
* 1944: Hunsingore
* 1945: Esquire
* 1946:
Sayani
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* 1947: Fairey Fulmar
* 1948: Sterope
* 1949: Sterope
* 1950: Kelling
* 1951: Fleeting Moment
* 1952: Richer
* 1953: Jupiter
* 1954: Minstrel
* 1955: Retrial
* 1956: Loppylugs
* 1957: Stephanotis
* 1958: London Cry
* 1959: Rexequus
* 1960: Midsummer Night
* 1961: Henry the Seventh / Violetta
4
* 1962: Hidden Meaning
* 1963: Commander in Chief
* 1964: Hasty Cloud
* 1965: Tarqogan
* 1966: Dites
* 1967: Lacquer
* 1968: Emerilo
* 1969: Prince de Galles
* 1970: Prince de Galles
* 1971: King Midas
* 1972: Negus
* 1973: Siliciana
* 1974: Flying Nelly
* 1975: Lottogift
* 1976: Intermission
1 The 1927 race was a dead-heat and has joint winners.
2 The 1939 event was split into two separate divisions.
3 The 1940 running took place at Nottingham
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4 The 1961 edition was a dead-heat and has joint winners.
See also
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Horse racing in Great Britain
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List of British flat horse races
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