Known for her love of racing, the Queen has enjoyed more than 20 winners at the Berkshire course's blue riband event -- a streak that began with her first victory in the Royal Hunt Cup with Choir Boy in 1952.

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An avid racing fan, the Queen has attended all but two Derbies during her 60-year reign.

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All age groups and all social classes from the Queen downwards enjoy racing, which attracts among its enthusiasts a much higher proportion of women than many other sports.

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Now, it is amongst the very biggest gaps in Flat racing's reference books that the Queen has never won the premier Classic, the only one of the season's five biggest races to have eluded her.

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No deaths have been recorded during the actual racing since its inception in 1851, when Queen Victoria watched the schooner America beat a fleet of British ships around the Isle of Wight.

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No tax has been paid since 2007, when members of the club wrote to the Queen, the patron of the Royal Pigeon Racing Association (RPRA), and local MP Sir Alan Beith also raised the matter in the House of Commons.

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It continued the O'Briens' domination of the English flat racing season, having already captured the 1, 000 Guineas with Homecoming Queen, the 2, 000 Guineas with Camelot and the Oaks (for fillies) with Was at Epsom on Friday.

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As well as providing a popular figurehead for those involved, the Queen's presence is also a significant part of the reason that British racing is so renowned around the world.

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Jackie Stewart, one of the greatest motor-racing drivers of all time, has been rewarded for his services to the sport with a knighthood from the Queen.

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