2000 Guineas Stakes 2000 Guineas Stakes The 2000 Guineas Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies. It is run on the Rowley Mile at Newmarket over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in late April or early May. It is one of Britain's five Classic races, and at present it is the first to be run in the year. It also serves as the opening leg of the Triple Crown, followed by the Derby and the St Leger, although the feat of
Cresta Run (horse) of Champions", based on the Timeform rating system, John Randall and Tony Morris rated Cresta Run an "average" winner of the 1000 Guineas. Cresta Run run was retired from racing to become a broodmare but produced only one named foal, namely Gold Race, a brown filly, foaled in 1930, sired by Colorado. Gold Race had little success as a racehorse but had considerable influence as a broodmare, with her female-line descendants including Jupiter Island, Precocious and Grand Lodge. Cresta Run (horse) Cresta Run (1924 – after 1930) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. As a two-year-old in 1926 she