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categories , namely Sprint , Mile , Middle Distance , Long Distance and Fillies & Mares .
Each features the seven highest-rated races in that category and brings together the finest horses , jockeys and trainers to compete for the sport ’ s most prestigious prizes .
The Series is staged at the country ’ s ten leading racecourses – Ascot , Doncaster , Epsom Downs , Goodwood , Haydock Park , Newbury , Newmarket ’ s July Course , Newmarket ’ s Rowley Mile , Sandown Park and York .
It encompasses all British Flat racing ’ s key festivals , including the QIPCO Guineas Festival , the Investec Derby Festival , Royal Ascot , the Moët & Chandon July Festival , Qatar Goodwood Festival , the Welcome to Yorkshire Ebor Festival and the Ladbrokes St Leger Meeting .
QIPCO British Champions Day , the climax to the Series , is Britain ’ s richest raceday with £ 2.5 million in prize money .
The QIPCO British Champions Sprint Stakes
With prize money of £ 350,000 this six furlong ( 1,200 metres ) contest provides the grand finale to the QIPCO British Champions Series Sprint category . It was run as a Group 1 for the first time in 2015 .
Run for the first time in 2011 , the QIPCO
British Champions Series Sprint takes place over the same course and distance as the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot in June .
After the success of Deacon Blues in the inaugural 2011 running , the race went the way of Ireland for the three years . In 2014 jockey Wayne Lordan landed back-to-back victories in the race aboard Gordon Lord Byron in the contest that provides Flat racing ’ s speed merchants with one final chance to shine on the British stage and stake their claim to sprinting greatness .
Muhaarar added his name to the list of top-class horses in 2015 , as he bowed out the undisputed sprinting champion of Europe . The Tin Man scooped the spoils 12 months later , with Librisa Breeze emerging triumphant in 2017 .
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