Royal Ascot

Aidan O'Brien is the most successful trainer in Royal Ascot history and the first to reach 100 winners. He brought up the century when Scandinavia won the 2026 Gold Cup and finished the week with seven winners, taking his overall total to 103. His first came with Harbour Master in the 1997 Coventry Stakes. He passed the old record of Sir Michael Stoute in 2023, and Stoute's mark stands at 82 winners.

Lester Piggott's 116 winners at Royal Ascot are still the record for a jockey. His haul included a record 11 Gold Cups, and in 1965 he rode eight winners at a single meeting, a post-war best he matched a decade later. Ryan Moore is the closest active rider: seven winners in 2026 took him to 99 and a 13th leading jockey title at the meeting. Frankie Dettori, who left British racing in 2023, has 81 Royal Ascot winners to his name.

Yeats is the only horse to have won the Gold Cup, the race first run in 1807, four times. Trained by Aidan O'Brien, he won it every year from 2006 to 2009, with Kieren Fallon riding the first and Johnny Murtagh the last. Sagaro in the 1970s and Stradivarius from 2018 to 2020 are the only other horses with three wins. O'Brien has since taken his own Gold Cup tally to ten, as Scandinavia beat Trawlerman by a head in 2026.