Guy Henderson

Ascot Racecourse will offer record prizemoney of £15.64-million across its flat and jumps programmes in 2022, up nearly £2-million (14.4%) on 2019, the last year that planned prizemoney was distributed before the pandemic. These figures exclude the industry partnership QIPCO British Champions Day. Royal Ascot on June 14 to 18 will offer £8,652,500, up 18% on 2019. Royal Ascot Tuesday will be the meeting's first-ever card to reach £2-million in prizemoney, and the G1 Prince of Wales's S. and the G1 Platinum Jubilee S. (formerly the Diamond Jubilee S.) will...

Guy Henderson will retire from his position as chief executive officer of Ascot after next year's Royal meeting, which will be his eighth in that position. Henderson said, "We make this announcement as the process to appoint the next CEO begins. Meanwhile, it remains business as usual as we deliver the remainder of the 2021 racing and events programme and build towards Royal Ascot 2022 in the Platinum Jubilee year. This will be a unique event at Ascot about which we are all very excited." Sir Francis Brooke, Her Majesty's...

Ascot Racecourse has said it does not expect crowds to return to pre-COVID levels before 2022, and in releasing its 2019 financial results on Wednesday painted a bleak financial picture for the next two years in the absence of continued government support. "Overall, in terms of our long-term financial flight path, we forecast that the Covid-19 pandemic will have set the business plan back at least three years," said Guy Henderson, chief executive officer of Ascot Racecourse. Ascot returned a net profit of £7.3-million last year and a rise in...

The #styledwiththanks charity appeal campaign, in recognition of those working on the frontline of the global COVID-19 crisis, was launched by Ascot Racecourse on Monday. The racecourse donated £100,000 to be split between four frontline charities: The NationalEmergencies Trust Relief Fund, NHS Charities Together, The Care Workers Charity and the Berkshire Community Foundation Coronavirus Fund. As Royal Ascot on June 16-20 will be held behind closed doors, fans across the globe are invited to dress up as part of 'Royal Ascot at Home' campaign and wear racing hats, take a...

Royal Ascot has confirmed prizemoney for its behind-closed-doors 2020 meeting, with a total pot of £3,680,000 to be handed out. All eight Group 1 races will be run for £250,000, and no race will be worth less than £35,000. All races will close at the six-day stage. It was announced in December that this year's Royal meeting was to be worth £8,095,000-the richest ever-with no race to be worth less than £95,000 and the G1 Diamond Jubilee S. and G1 Prince of Wales's S. set to be the meeting's first-ever...

The 2020 Dubai Shergar Cup at Ascot has been cancelled due to the coronavirus, Racing TV reported. Originally scheduled for Aug. 8, the four-team jockey competition played host to some of the world's best riders, but with the current travel restrictions, as well as crowds at sporting events being prohibited, Ascot decided to call off the 2020 event. "Regrettably, given the complexities of flying jockeys around the world and uncertainty over what government regulations will be in place at the time, the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup won't take place...