Class: | Group 1 |
Horse Race: | Futurity Trophy |
Location: | Doncaster Racecourse Doncaster, England |
Inaugurated: | 1961 |
Race Type: | Flat / Thoroughbred |
Website: | Doncaster |
Distance: | 1 mile (1,609 metres) |
Surface: | Turf |
Track: | Straight |
Qualification: | Two-year-olds excluding geldings |
Weight: | 9 st 3 lb Allowances 3 lb for fillies |
Purse: | £200,000 (2022) 1st: £118,400 |
|}The Futurity Trophy is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to two-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies. It is run at Doncaster over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in late October.
The event was established in 1961 and was originally called the Timeform Gold Cup. It was founded by Phil Bull, the creator of Timeform, and was backed by this organisation until 1964.
The Observer started to support the event in 1965. The present grading system was introduced in 1971 and the Observer Gold Cup was classed at Group-1 level.
The bookmaker William Hill took over the sponsorship in 1976, and from this point the event was known as the Futurity Stakes. From 1989 to 2017 the race was sponsored by the Racing Post and run as the Racing Post Trophy.
The Futurity Trophy is now the last Group 1 event of the British flat racing season. The 2019 race was run on Newcastle's Tapeta track, after the Doncaster meeting was abandoned because of waterlogging, thereby becoming the first British Group 1 race to be run on an artificial surface.[1]
Six winners have subsequently achieved victory in the following year's Derby: Reference Point (1986); High Chaparral (2001); Motivator (2004); Authorized (2006);Camelot (2011); Auguste Rodin (2022).
Leading jockey (5 wins):
Leading trainer (11 wins):
Leading owner (10 wins): (includes part ownership)