Wokingham Stakes Tips – Royal Ascot
Run on the final day of Royal Ascot, the Wokingham Stakes is often one of the highest turnover betting races of the entire week. This is because it is a hugely competitive handicap which often sees fields of well over 20 runners go to post. It is likely to be extremely popular with punters again in 2025 after fields of 27 and 25 in the last two renewals.
Wokingham Stakes Race in 2025
As a Royal Ascot handicap, the entries and declarations for the Wokingham Stakes will not be known until much closer to the time. However, the winners of the last four editions could well return for another crack at the prize, as Rohaan (2021 & 2022), Saint Lawrence (2023) and Unequal Love are all still in training.
2024 Wokingham Stakes Tips
Wokingham Stakes Notable Trends
As a handicap which attracts such a large number of competitors, it is unsurprising that this is not a race to necessarily back the favourite in. You would be down 6.5 points in the last decade for having done this, as only 7/2 favourite Cape Byron has obliged in that period, doing so in 2019.
There have been two other winners at single-figure prices in Baccarat (9/1, 2014) and Rohaan (8/1, 2021), but the latter also caused a minor shock at 18/1 in 2022, while Out Do (25/1, 2017), Bacchus (33/1, 2018) and Saint Lawrence (22/1, 2023) were even bigger surprises to most.
As a result of its competitiveness, no jockey has won more than one renewal in the last decade, while only David Evans has won it multiple times, though with the same horse in Rohaan.
As a handicap, it can pay to see whereabouts in the weights the winners have come from. Seven of the last ten winners have emerged from the middle of the handicap or higher, with only two winners in the last decade holding a saddlecloth number in the 20s. Indeed three of the last six winners have come from the top five in the handicap.
Wokingham Stakes History
Though the race is named after the town relatively local to Ascot, it could also have been named after the first two-time winner of the event. The horse named Wokingham claimed the 1881 and 1882 renewals, with Rohaan the latest to achieve the feat in 2021 and 2022. Only three other horses aside from that duo have won two editions of the Wokingham and no horse has ever done it three times.
Seven different jockeys have achieved victory in the race on three occasions though, including historic luminaries such as Fred Archer and Lester Piggott. Four trainers also finished their careers with three wins in the race, the most recent being Paul Cole when Bel Byou won in 1987.
Wokingham Stakes Past Winners
| YEAR | HORSE | JOCKEY | TRAINER |
| 2024 | Unequal Love | Tom Marquand | William Haggas |
| 2023 | Saint Lawrence | Hollie Doyle | Archie Watson |
| 2022 | Rohaan | Ryan Moore | David Evans |
| 2021 | Rohaan | Shane Kelly | David Evans |
| 2020 | Hey Jonesy | Kevin Stott | Kevin Ryan |
| 2019 | Cape Byron | Andrea Atzeni | Roger Varian |
| 2018 | Bacchus | Jim Crowley | Brian Meehan |
| 2017 | Out Do | Daniel Tudhope | David O’Meara |
| 2016 | Outback Traveller | Martin Harley | Robert Cowell |
| 2015 | Interception | George Baker | David Lanigan |
All the other races on Day 5 of Royal Ascot
| TIME | RACE |
| 2.30pm | Chesham Stakes: The final day of Royal Ascot 2025 begins with the Chesham Stakes, this 7f Listed contest is exclusive to 2yos sired by horses that won over 10f+. |
| 3.05pm | Jersey Stakes: The Jersey Stakes is a 7f Group 3 for 3yo horses, it often attracts participants that failed to stay the 1m trip in a 2000 Guineas. |
| 3.40pm | Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes: The feature race on the final day of Royal Ascot 2025 is the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes, this 6f Group 1 has been renamed again this year. |
| 4.20pm | Hardwicke Stakes: The Hardwicke Stakes is a 1m4f Group 2 for horses aged 4yo or older, trainer Sir Michael Stoute has won a remarkable 11 renewals of this event. |
| 5.00pm | Wokingham Stakes: The feature handicap on Royal Ascot Day 5 is the Wokingham Stakes, which is run over the same course and distance as the Platinum Jubilee. |
| 5.35pm | Golden Gate Stakes: This 1m2f handicap is exclusive to 3yo horses and many runners will be hoping to use this as a springboard for stakes races. |
| 6.10pm | Queen Alexandra Stakes: The Queen Alexandra Stakes concludes Royal Ascot 2025 and the 2m6f trip makes this race the longest of the entire week. |