{"id":1642986,"date":"2022-09-16T13:55:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T17:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1642986"},"modified":"2022-09-16T13:55:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T17:55:39","slug":"horses-and-the-sport-of-kings-were-queen-elizabeths-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/horses-and-the-sport-of-kings-were-queen-elizabeths-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"Horses and the \u2018Sport of Kings\u2019 were Queen Elizabeth\u2019s passion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhorses-and-the-sport-of-kings-were-queen-elizabeths-passion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1642986&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Alan Baldwin<\/p>\n<p>WINDSOR, England (Reuters) \u2013     Horse racing is the \u201cSport of Kings\u201d, and it was also the passion of Queen Elizabeth whose love of all things equine became a feature of her 70-year reign.<\/p>\n<p>The late monarch\u2019s horses won more than 1,800 races and her annual presence at Royal Ascot and the Epsom Derby reflected a deep personal interest as much as carrying out royal duty.<\/p>\n<p>An enthusiastic owner and breeder, with the Royal Stud at her Sandringham estate, she had a deep knowledge of the sport and seemed happiest when the discussion turned to horses.<\/p>\n<p>An official photograph released by the Royal Windsor Horse Show to mark the queen\u2019s 96th birthday featured her standing in the grounds of Windsor Castle with her Fell Ponies.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure if the queen had not been bred into being a monarch she would have found a vocation with horses. It was just simply in her DNA,\u201d her bloodstock and racing manager John Warren told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>A copy of the Racing Post newspaper was said to accompany her breakfast every morning and she kept in regular touch with  trainers and stables for the lowdown on what was going on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe absolutely knew what the form was,\u201d Jordan\u2019s Princess Haya bint Hussein, who won the Derby as an owner with New Approach in 2008 and has close ties to the royal family, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe stopped to talk to everybody \u2026 the grooms, to the young riders, to children, right up to the top trainers in horse sports, to the blacksmiths, to the vets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The princess recalled being told some years ago that the  queen even had an iPad to enable her to watch her future racehorses being born in the broodmare stables.<\/p>\n<p>Trainer Richard Hannon senior said the queen knew her pedigrees inside out and recalled to the Racing Post how she enjoyed visiting the stables because \u201cit\u2019s nice to come to a place that doesn\u2019t smell of fresh paint\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Nicky Henderson, another royal trainer, also told the Racing Post how the queen had watched one of her horses win a race on television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe told me she\u2019d been watching it in the sitting room. The horse led over the last, but it was a tight finish so she stood up and screamed it home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith that, she said the security guards burst open the door thinking there had been some ghastly drama, but found her shouting at the television rather than an intruder. That always tickled me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LIVING LEGACY<\/p>\n<p>The British Horseracing Authority, which paused meetings last week in her honour, said the queen had \u201chelped to shape the breed and contributed to moments on the track that will go down in sporting folklore\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The queen\u2019s horses won all the British classics with the exception of the Derby, the most prestigious of all. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Her Majesty invited me to the Royal Box, she asked me genuinely \u2018How did it feel? How does it feel?\u2019, and I was able to share that with her,\u201d Princess Haya told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The British royals\u2019 love of horse racing goes back centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Newmarket, the \u201cheadquarters\u201d with more training yards than anywhere in the country and two racecourses, became popular in the 17th century under James I and then Charles I and II.<\/p>\n<p>In 1665 Charles II set out the rules for the Newmarket Town Plate, which he also entered as a rider and won twice.<\/p>\n<p>Ascot, the royal racecourse near Windsor, was founded by Queen Anne in 1711. The Queen Anne Stakes are run over the straight mile.<\/p>\n<p>Queen Elizabeth attended every edition of the Royal Windsor Horse Show since its inception 79 years ago, including in May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was often there very relaxed, in a headscarf and a quilted jacket, watching her own horses compete,\u201d Tracy Casstles, the British Horse Society\u2019s head of fundraising, said. <\/p>\n<p>Princess Haya said the sport remained in safe hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Her Majesty has left a living legacy,\u201d said the  former president of the World Equestrian Federation (FEI). \u201cThere\u2019s so many of the young and up and coming royals who are competing at the highest level already.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it could ever be said that there\u2019s any fear for any part of the equestrian industry, really, around the world, because the contribution that Her Majesty and Prince Philip made is a solid one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both Princess Anne and daughter Zara Tindall are ex-Olympians but, with King Charles seemingly less interested, Queen Consort Camilla appears set to become horse racing\u2019s new royal standard-bearer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCamilla obviously adores horses and is hugely passionate about racing. She really loves it, particularly Cheltenham, the jumps,\u201d a source told the Mail on Sunday newspaper. \u201cI think there\u2019s a pretty clear plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Alan Baldwin; Editing by Alison Williams)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/v3.oann.com\/horses-and-the-sport\/file-photo-royal-ascot\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8F10Z-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8F10Z-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/v3.oann.com\/horses-and-the-sport\/file-photo-royal-ascot-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8F114-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8F114-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/v3.oann.com\/horses-and-the-sport\/file-photo-britains-queen-elizabeth-and-prince-edward-watch-the\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8F10X-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8F10X-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/v3.oann.com\/horses-and-the-sport\/file-photo-moore-rides-queen-elizabeths-horse-carlton-house-after\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8F112-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8F112-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/v3.oann.com\/horses-and-the-sport\/file-photo-royal-ascot-3\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8F113-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8F113-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alan Baldwin WINDSOR, England (Reuters) \u2013 Horse racing is the \u201cSport of Kings\u201d, and it was also the passion of Queen Elizabeth whose love of all things equine became<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}