The Windsor Forest Stakes is a Group 2 flat horse race in Great Britain open to thoroughbred fillies and mares aged four years or older. It is run at Ascot over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in June.
The race is one of several for older fillies which were introduced across Europe in 2004. These were designed as an incentive to keep more of their gender from being exported or prematurely retired to stud.
The Windsor Forest Stakes is now contested on the second day of the five-day Royal Ascot meeting.
Famous quotes containing the words forest and/or stakes:
“The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)