The City And Suburban Handicap Flat Race is the third race that is run for The Epsom Spring Meeting at Epsom Downs Racecourse every year.
Offering six brilliant flat races every Spring including The Blue Riband Trial, The Epsom Spring Meeting provides an unforgettable raceday experience that has tens of thousands of horse racing fanatics returning to Surrey for another taste of the action year after year.
The Epsom Spring Meeting 2021 will take place on Tuesday the 20th of April this Spring. For all of The Epsom Spring Meeting’s news and ticket information, sign up for The Jockey Club’s newsletter at https://www.thejockeyclub.co.uk/newsletter/.
About The Race
The City And Suburban Handicap Flat Race is a Class 2 handicap flat race that serves as the third race of The Epsom Spring Meeting at Epsom Downs Racecourse every April.
Open to horses aged four years old and above, The City And Suburban Handicap Flat Race runs 1 mile, 2 furlongs and 17 yards of Epsom Downs Racecourse and featured eleven runners last time out.
The prize pool for The City And Suburban Handicap Flat Race at its last running was a generous £50,000, which was shared accordingly between the first four competitors to successfully pass the final post:
1st place – 7/2 Mountain Angel (IRE) – £31,125
2nd place – 14/1 Aquarium (GB) – £9,320
3rd place – 12/1 Aasheq (IRE) – £4,660
4th place – 14/1 Mythical Madness (GB) – £2,330
The City And Suburban Handicap Flat Race will begin at 14:50 on Tuesday the 20th of April 2021.
Runners
The City And Suburban Handicap Flat Race is competitively contested year after year with the participating horses looking to prove exactly what they’re capable of and take home a share of the purse.
Here are the runners, their starting prices and how they fared in this fantastic race at Epsom’s Spring Meeting at Epsom Downs Racecourse last time out in 2019 (ordered by saddlecloth number):
- Mildenberger (GB) – seventh-place finish – 10/3 starting price – weighing in at 9-9 – ridden by jockey James Doyle and trained by Mark Johnston
- Crossed Baton (GB) – ninth-place finish – 5/1 starting price – weighing in at 9-7 – ridden by jockey Frankie Dettori and trained by John Gosden
- Lucius Tiberius (IRE) – fifth-place finish – 7/1 starting price – weighing in at 9-4 – ridden by jockey William Buick and trained by Charlie Appleby
- What About Carlo (FR) – Withdrawn – starting price N/A – weighing in at 9-2 – assigned jockey Charles Bishop and trained by Eve Johnson Houghton
- Aquarium (GB) – second-place finish – 14/1 starting price – weighing in at 9-2 – ridden by jockey Franny Norton and trained by Mark Johnston
- Banditry (IRE) – eleventh-place finish – 40/1 starting price – weighing in at 9-0 – ridden by jockey Jim Crowley and trained by Ian Williams
- Mountain Angel (IRE) – first-place finish – 7/2 starting price – weighing in at 8-12 – ridden by jockey Andrea Atzeni and trained by Roger Varian
- Aasheq (IRE) – third-place finish – 12/1 starting price – weighing in at 8-12 – ridden by jockey David Allan and trained by Tim Easterby
- Desert Wind (IRE) – tenth-place finish – 11/2 starting price – weighing in at 8-9 – ridden by jockey Stevie Donohoe and trained by Ed Vaughan
- Mazzuri (IRE) – eighth-place finish – 22/1 starting price – weighing in at 8-8 – ridden by jockey Jason Watson and trained by Amanda Perrett
- Mythical Madness (GB) – fourth-place finish – 14/1 starting price – weighing in at 8-8 – ridden by jockey Silvestre De Sousa and trained by David O’Meara
- Wingingit (IRE) – sixth-place finish – 25/1 starting price – weighing in at 8-8 – ridden by jockey Oisin Murphy and trained by Andrew Balding
- Al Jellaby (GB) – Non-Runner – starting price N/A – weighing in at 8-5 – assigned jockey Hollie Doyle and trained by Clive Cox
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Odds
Odds for The City And Suburban Handicap Flat Race last time out ranged from 10/3 for the race favourite Mildenberger up to 40/1 for the longest outsider Banditry.
This edition of The City And Suburban Handicap Flat Race was in fact won by 7/2 second-favourite Mountain Angel, who converted £10 outright backing stakes into £45 in returns, £35 in profits for all those that backed the race champion.
Previous Winners
Here are the previous 4 winners of The City And Suburban Handicap Flat Race at The Epsom Spring Meeting, including their odds, closest competitors and race stats:
(2020 meeting abandoned due to the Coronavirus pandemic)
2019
The winner of The City And Suburban Handicap Flat Race last time out at The Epsom Spring Meeting 2019 was 7/2 second-favourite Mountain Angel, ridden by jockey Andrea Atzeni and trained by Roger Varian.
14/1 outsider Aquarium finished a length and a half behind Mountain Angel in second place, followed by 12/1 priced Aasheq in third place and 14/1 outsider Mythical Madness in fourth.
2018
At The Epsom Spring Meeting 2018, the winner of The City And Suburban Handicap Flat Race was 9/4 race favourite Ajman King, ridden by jockey Andrea Atzeni and trained by Roger Varian.
6/1 priced Dash Of Spice finished just a length behind Ajman King in second place, followed by 20/1 outsider Another Touch in third place and 12/1 priced Pacify in fourth.
2017
7/1 priced Brorocco finished first in The City And Suburban Handicap Flat Race at Epsom Downs Racecourse in 2017, ridden by jockey Jimmy Quinn and trained by Andrew Balding.
13/2 priced Banditry finished just a length behind Brorocco in second place, followed by 5/1 third-favourite Gawdawpalin in third place and 20/1 outsider Great Hall in fourth.
2016
Back in 2016, the winner of The City And Suburban Handicap Flat Race at The Epsom Spring Meeting was 12/1 outsider Dark Red, ridden by jockey Franny Norton and trained by Ed Dunlop.
4/1 joint-favourite Pacify finished just three-quarters of a length behind Dark Red in second place, followed by 7/1 priced What About Carlo in third place and 4/1 joint-favourite Clayton in fourth.
