2006 1000 Guineas 2006 1000 Guineas The 2006 1000 Guineas Stakes was a horse race held at Newmarket Racecourse on Sunday 7 May 2006. It was the 193rd running of the 1000 Guineas. The winner was Pam Sly, Michael Sly and Tom Davies's Speciosa, an Irish-bred bay filly trained by Pam Sly at Thorney in Cambridgeshire and ridden by Micky Fenton. Speciosa's victory was the first in the race for her owner, trainer and jockey. The race was run on soft ground. The race attracted a field of thirteen runners, ten trained in the United Kingdom and three in Ireland: there were no
2014 2000 Guineas Stakes best European horse of the 20th Century. As can be seen from below, an astonishing nine of the fourteen horses in the 2014 running, were Group One winners, while two of the other five were dual Group One placed. The strength in depth of the field was exemplified on British Champions Day 2014, in Europe's richest mile race: the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. First, second and third all ran in the 2014 2000 Guineas: 1st - Charm Spirit (5th in 2000 Guineas); 2nd - Night of Thunder (1st in 2000 Guineas); 3rd - Toormore (7th in 2000 Guineas). On Racing