The Captain Cook Stakes is a Group 1 Thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

 horse race run at weight-for-age over a distance of 1,600 metres (1 mile) at Trentham Racecourse

Trentham Racecourse

Trentham Racecourse is the main thoroughbred horse racecourse for the Wellington city area in New Zealand.-Main Races:* G2 Wellington Cup; 2400m .* G1 New Zealand Oaks; 2400m* G1 Telegraph Handicap; 1200m.* G1 Thorndon Mile; 1600m...

 in Wellington

Wellington

Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...

, New Zealand. Over the years the race has been won by great New Zealand racehorses such as Rough Habit

Rough Habit

Rough Habit was a New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who won 11 Group One races on both sides of the Tasman, and won New Zealand's Horse of the Year Award in 1992 and 1995....

(1992) and Solveig (1986).

In 2009 the race date was moved from the end October to the beginning of December, to address the disadvantage the race had due to its close proximity to the running of the Hawke's Bay Spring Carnival http://www.nzracing.co.nz/Documents/3628/4-08-09.%20Change%20in%20Captain%20Cook%20and%20Cuddle%20Stakes.pdf.

Recent winners

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| width="100px" | Winner

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| width="200px" | Owner
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|2008
|Dezigna
|Troy Harris
|Vanessa & Wayne Hillis
|Mrs M.E.A. Evans
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|2009
|Ekstreme
|Opie Bosson
|Bryce Revell
|Waimea Racing Syndicate
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