Trivia
The racecourse is the setting for a scene in the musical My Fair Lady and the subject for the song "Ascot Gavotte".
The racecourse was used as a filming location in the James Bond film A View to a Kill in 1985, where Bond (played for the last time by Roger Moore) was beginning his mission to defeat the villainous Max Zorin (Christopher Walken), whose horses were competing in a race there.
James Bond filming and production crews returned to Ascot Racecourse during filming for the twenty third James Bond Film Skyfall, where it stood in for Shanghai Pudong International Airport.
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