Royal birthday to be marked at Ascot Ascot has announced this year's Gold Cup at the Royal meeting will celebrate the Queen's 90th birthday. The two-and-a-half-mile heat, which was famously won by Her Majesty's Estimate in 2013, will be run as the Gold Cup in Honour of The Queen's 90th Birthday on June 16. Johnny Weatherby, Her Majesty's representative at Ascot, said: "We are delighted to be celebrating the Queen's 90th birthday in the race title of the Gold Cup. "The Gold Cup, recently won of course by the Queen herself, is the historic centrepiece of Royal Ascot, and is very much the race which resonates most with the public."
