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Stan James has been operating as a licensed bookmaker in the United Kingdom since 1973. The Stan James brand has been at the forefront of Sports Betting over the last decade. With innovative markets and value prices, Stan James has become one of the most acclaimed names within the betting industry.

Stan James has a fast growing and well-deserved reputation. For more than a decade the company has been at the forefront of many innovative and hugely varied betting offers to an ever increasing army of punters. Raising the bar for the whole industry, but still leading the field, Stan James bets more markets in more sports than any other bookmaker. It is this reputation and thirst for innovation which lends itself well to the Guineas Festival at Newmarket, a race meeting which, with almost 200 years of history behind it, has reinvented itself in recent years to be at the cutting edge of the 21st century international racing calendar.

Since the early 19th century, the highlights of the "Sport of Kings" in England have been the five tests for three-year-olds known as the "Classics"- The Derby, The Oaks, The St Leger and, of course, Newmarket’s 1000 and 2000 Guineas which launch the season in spectacular style. The Classics represent the ultimate test and celebrate the finest and fastest thoroughbreds. Unlike other races such as the King George or the Arc de Triomphe, the Classics come around only once for any horse. Classic success can make a colt worth tens of millions of pounds as a potential stallion or turn a filly into an irresistible broodmare proposition and they remain the true benchmark of success for every jockey, trainer and owner.

It is with great pleasure that Newmarket Racecourses welcomes back Stan James as the sole sponsor of the 2007 Guineas Festival, two days of world class flat racing on the NatWest Rowley Mile, in a partnership that will last at the very least until the end of this decade.