2011 2000 Guineas Stakes 2011 2000 Guineas Stakes The 2011 2000 Guineas Stakes was the 203rd running of the 2000 Guineas Stakes horse race. It was run over one mile at Newmarket Racecourse on 30 April 2011. This race was the 6th of Frankel's unbeaten 14 race winning streak, its 2nd win as a 3-year-old and its 2nd Group 1 victory following its victory in the 2010 Dubai Dewhurst Stakes at the same racecourse the year before. Rerouted was entered into the race primarily to act as a pacemaker to the highly promising Frankel, however with Frankel being drawn in stall number one and
Commonwealth Cup (horse race) Commonwealth Cup (horse race) The Commonwealth Cup is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three years. It is the only Group 1 flat race in Great Britain exclusively for three-year-olds that allows geldings to compete and the first age-restricted Group 1 race which is open to geldings in Europe. It is run at Ascot over a distance of 6 furlongs (1,207 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in June. The Commonwealth Cup was introduced in 2015 as part of a set of changes to the programme of sprint horse