2018 2000 Guineas Stakes 2018 2000 Guineas Stakes The 2018 2000 Guineas Stakes was the 210th running of the 2000 Guineas Stakes horse race. It was run over one mile on the Rowley Mile at Newmarket Racecourse on 5 May 2018, a hot and sunny day. The winner was the Japanese bred Saxon Warrior, trained by Aidan O'Brien and ridden by his son Donnacha O'Brien. Tip Two Win was in second place a length and a half behind and the favourite, Masar, was in third place. After the race winning jockey Donnacha O'Brien said of Saxon Warrior: "He's a very good horse, he's a
Saratoga Race Course been "twilight racing", where the first race post time is at 2:30 pm on some days, previously 2:45 PM. The following are Graded stakes races run at Saratoga: Buried at Clare Court Jogging Track are Fourstardave, Mourjane (IRE) and A Phenomenon. Champion filly Go For Wand, who suffered a fatal injury during the stretch run of the 1990 Breeders Cup Distaff, is buried in the Saratoga Race Course infield. The Race Course is the setting of a scene early on in the Ian Fleming James Bond novel "Diamonds Are Forever". It also is the setting of Sherwood Anderson's short story