4-610: The Paradise Stakes is a Listed flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged four years or older. It is run at Ascot over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in April. The race was first run, as the Chobham Conditions Stakes, in 1995. It was given its current name and awarded Listed status in 2004. Since 2019 the official title has indicated that
8-666: The race should be considered as a trial for the Queen Anne Stakes , run at the Royal Meeting over the same course and distance in June. The race title was originally used for a different race, now called the Sagaro Stakes , which is run at the same Ascot meeting. Conditions races Conditions races are horse races in which the weights carried by the runners are laid down by the conditions attached to
12-456: The race. Weights are allocated according to the sex of the runners, with female runners carrying less weight than males; the age of the runners, with younger horses receiving weight from older runners to allow for relative maturity, referred to as weight for age ; and the quality of the runners, with horses that have won certain values of races giving weight to less successful entrants. Conditions races are distinct from handicap races , for which
16-545: The weights carried are laid down by an official handicapper to equalise the difference in ability between the runners. In Great Britain, for example, the British Horseracing Authority 's rules define a conditions race as being one "which is none of the following; a Handicap Race or a Novice Race, a race restricted to Maiden Horses, or a race governed by Selling or Claiming provisions." Conditions races are staged at all levels of horse racing. As all of
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