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Royal Ascot In Numbers

It's June, the summer is (almost) here and it's time to don those hats for the biggest horse racing meeting in the world! Here's a snapshot in numbers of what makes up Royal Ascot, including everything from winners to waiters.....


1 – Reigning monarch of Britain who will be in attendance every day of the Royal Meeting

4 – Record amount of Ascot Gold Cup wins, achieved by Yeats in 2009

13 – Big screens which will be on site at the track for the week

21 ½ - Furlongs covered in the Queen Alexandra Stakes, the final contest of the meeting and the longest Flat race run in Britain

22 – Wins Black Caviar, the Australian wonder mare, will be hoping to notch up in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes on Saturday

24 – Races at Royal Ascot broadcast live on the BBC during the week

100 – Tonnes of ice used over Royal Ascot

175 – Stable boxes at the racecourse to accommodate an average 100 runners per day

255 – Private boxes at the course which will play host to up to 4,876 guests

400 – Helicopters which will descend on Royal Ascot each year

630 – Panels of picket fence, stretching to over 1.5 kilometres, which are erected to go up around the course

700 – Bales of shavings used for stable bedding over the week, along with 500 bales of paper

1,500 – Serving staff working as part of the huge workforce at the meeting

2,400 - Cleaners working on a 24-hour cycle during the week, when there are 300 mobile toilet facilities installed temporarily

13,398 – Car parking spaces at Ascot across 10 car parks

16,700 – Items of temporary furniture hired in for the Royal Meeting

80,000 – Union Jack Flags that will be handed out to racegoers for the Royal Procession over the week

170,000 – Champagne corks popped over the course of Royal Ascot week

283, 550 – Pounds the winner of Wednesday’s Prince of Wales’s Stakes will pocket

294,384 – Racegoers who went through the gate at Royal Ascot 2011

100,000,000 – The Value in sterling of the best racehorse in the world, Frankel, who runs in the opening race on Tuesday

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