1000 Guineas Trends 2026

April 27, 2026
Andy Newton

First run back in 1814, the Betfred 1,000 Guineas is a Group One flat race run over 1m just for 3 year-old fillies. The contest is one of the five English Classics and staged at Newmarket racecourse in late April or early May each year.

It’s the second of the five English Classics with the 2,000 Guineas run the day before being the first, while winners of this race often go onto run well in that year’s Epsom Oaks the following month – the last horses to land both races in the same season was Kazzia in 2002 and Minding in 2016.

The 2025 running of the 1000 Guineas was won by Godolphin's Desert Flower and trained by Charlie Appleby. A win that provided the 'boys in blue' with their fifth win in the fillies' classic.

Here at GEEGEEZ we look back at recent winners and gives you the key stats to take into the 2026 renewal – run on Sunday 3rd May

1000 Guineas Key Stat - 22 of the last 24 winners of the 1,000 Guineas finished in the top three last time out?

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Recent 1,000 Guineas Winners

2025 - Desert Flower (Evs)
2024 - Elmalka (28/1)
2023 - Mawj (9/1)
2022 - Cachet (16/1)
2021 - Mother Earth (10/1)
2020 - Love (4/1)
2019 – Hermosa (14/1)
2018 - Billesdon Brook (66/1)
2017 - Winter (9/1)
2016 – Minding (11/10 fav)
2015 – Legatissimo (13/2)
2014 – Miss France (7/1)
2013 – Sky Lantern (9/1)
2012 - Homecoming Queen (25/1)
2011 – Blue Bunting (16/1)
2010 – Special Duty (9/2 fav)
2009 – Ghanaati (20/1)
2008 – Natagora (11/4 fav)
2007 – Finsceal Beo (5/4 fav)
2006 – Speciosa (10/1)
2005 – Virginia Waters (12/1)
2004 – Attraction (11/2)
2003 – Russian Rhythm (12/1)
2002 – Kazzia (14/1)

Note: The 2020 running was staged in June (Covid-19)

1,000 Guineas Betting Trends

22/24 – Placed in the top 3 last time out
18/24 – Had won a Group race before
16/24 – Had won between 2-3 times before
16/24 – Winning distance – 2 lengths or less
15/24 – Drawn between 2-13 (inc)
15/24 – Yet to win a race over a mile (or further)
15/24 – Came from outside the top 3 in the betting
14/24 – Won their previous race
14/24 – Had raced at Newmarket (Rowley Mile) before
12/24 – Returned a double-figure price
11/24 – Favourites unplaced
11/24 – Won on their seasonal reappearance
11/24 – Ran at Newmarket last time out
10/24 – Had won at Newmarket (Rowley Mile) before
9/24 – Irish-trained winners
7/24 – Previous Group One winners
6/24 – Drawn in stalls 7 or 8
5/24 – Won by the favourite
4/24 – Won by a US bred horse
4/24– Ridden by Ryan Moore
3/24 – French-trained winners
Just two horses placed from stall 1 in the last 18 runnings
11 of the last 18 winners came between stalls 2-8 (inc)
The average winning SP in the last 24 years is 12/1

1,000 Guineas Facts

Owner Shadwell have won the race 5 times (1990, 1991, 1995, 2000 & 2009)
Frankie Dettori has ridden the ridden the winner 4 times (1998, 2002, 2011 & 2021)
Ryan Moore has ridden the winner 4 times (2012, 2015, 2016, 2020)
Godolphin have won the race 5 times (1998, 2002, 2011, 2023 & 2024)
Aidan O’Brien has trained 7 winners, Virginia Waters (2005), Homecoming Queen (2012), Minding (2016), Winter (2017), Hermosa (2019), Love (2020), Mother Earth (2021)

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