The Westminster Handicap Flat Race is the first race that is run for The Epsom Spring Meeting at Epsom Downs Racecourse every April.
The Epsom Spring Meeting is an outstanding horse racing affair that offers six fantastic flat races including The Derby Trial which grants its winner automatic entry into The Epsom Derby in June.
This year’s edition of The Epsom Spring Meeting is scheduled to take place on Tuesday the 20th of April 2021. 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 Westminster Handicap Flat Race is a Class 3 handicap flat race that serves as the opening race of The Epsom Spring Meeting at Epsom Downs Racecourse every April.
Open to horses aged four years old and above, The Westminster Handicap Flat Race runs just 5 furlongs of Epsom Downs Racecourse and featured seven runners last time out.
The last edition of this race offered a purse worth £20,000 to the first four finishers of the race. Here’s how much each placement position received:
1st place – 5/1 Just That Lord (GB) – £12,450
2nd place – 4/1 Dark Shot (GB) – £3,728
3rd place – 9/1 Merry Banter (GB) – £1,864
4th place – 9/2 Shamshon (IRE) – £932
The Westminster Handicap Flat Race will begin at 14:10 on Tuesday The 20th of April 2021.
Runners
The runners that compete in The Westminster Handicap Flat Race are always keen to get the show off to a flying start. The prize pool may not seem a lot compared to some more prestigious races, but the opportunities that come alongside a victory here is much more valuable.
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):
- Cox Bazar (FR) – tenth-place finish – 25/1 starting price – weighing in at 9-13 – ridden by jockey Jason Hart and trained by Ivan Furtado
- Boom The Groom (IRE) – eighth-place finish – 10/1 starting price – weighing in at 9-7 – ridden by jockey Tom Marquand and trained by A W Carroll
- Midnight Malibu (IRE) – ninth-place finish – 16/1 starting price – weighing in at 9-7 – ridden by jockey Rachel Richardson and trained by Tim Easterby
- Merry Banter (GB) – third-place finish – 9/1 starting price – weighing in at 9-2 – ridden by jockey Paul Mulrennan and trained by Paul Midgley
- Duke Of Firenze (GB) – fifth-place finish – 5/1 starting price – weighing in at 9-1 – ridden by jockey David Allan and trained by David Griffiths
- Just That Lord (GB) – first-place finish – 5/1 starting price – weighing in at 8-13 – ridden by jockey Luke Morris and trained by Michael Attwater
- Harry Hurricane (GB) – sixth-place finish – 10/1 starting price – weighing in at 8-13 – ridden by jockey Nicola Currie and trained by George Baker
- Dark Shot (GB) – second-place finish – 4/1 starting price – weighing in at 8-13 – ridden by jockey Theodore Ladd and trained by Scott Dixon
- Shamshon (IRE) – fourth-place finish – 9/2 starting price – weighing in at 8-10 – ridden by jockey Harry Bentley and trained by Stuart Williams
- Bahamian Sunrise (GB) – seventh-place finish – 8/1 starting price – weighing in at 8-7 – ridden by jockey Silvestre De Sousa and trained by John Gallagher
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Odds
Odds for The Westminster Handicap Flat Race last time out ranged from 4/1 for the race favourite Dark Shot up to 25/1 for the longest outsider Cox Bazar.
The winner of this edition of the race was 5/1 priced Just That Lord, who turned £10 outright backing stakes into £60 in returns, £50 in profits for those that backed him.
Previous Winners
Here are the previous 4 winners of The Westminster 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 Westminster Handicap Flat Race at Epsom Downs Racecourse last time out was 5/1 joint third-favourite Just That Lord, ridden by jockey Luke Morris and trained by Michael Attwater.
4/1 second-favourite Dark Shot finished just a neck behind Just That Lord in second place, followed by 9/1 priced Merry Banter in third place and 9/2 priced Shamshon in fourth.
2018
At The Epsom Spring Meeting in 2018, the winner of The Westminster Handicap Flat Race was 7/1 priced Bahamian Sunrise, ridden by jockey Silvestre De Sousa and trained by John Gallagher.
8/1 priced Shamshon finished just a head behind Bahamian Sunrise in second place, followed by 7/1 priced Just That Lord in third place and 7/1 priced Boom The Groom in fourth.
2017
9/2 priced second-favourite Majestic Hero won The Westminster Handicap Flat Race at Epsom Downs Racecourse in 2017, ridden by jockey Jamie Spencer and trained by Ronald Harris.
7/1 priced Just That Lord finished just three-quarters of a length behind Majestic Hero in second place, followed by 9/1 priced Normal Equilibrium in third place and 11/2 priced Pixeleen in fourth.
2016
Back in 2016, the winner of The Westminster Handicap Flat Race at The Epsom Spring Meeting was 4/1 second-favourite Normal Equilibrium, ridden by jockey Andrea Atzeni and trained by Robert Cowell.
7/4 priced race-favourite Roudee finished just a length behind Normal Equilibrium in second place, followed by 14/1 outsider Duke Of Firenze in third place and 5/1 third-favourite Bouclier in fourth.
