The Norman Carlyon Stakes is a MRC

Melbourne Racing Club

The Melbourne Racing Club is one of three metropolitan horse racing clubs in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It began life as the Victoria Amateur Turf Club in 1875 with Mr. E.C. Moore as the Club's first Secretary. The Dowling Forest Racecourse in Ballarat was the location for the first VATC race...

 Group 2

Group races

Group races are the highest standard of Thoroughbred horseraces in Australia. The Australian Pattern Committee recommends to the Australian Racing Board which races shall be designated as Group races...

 Australia

Australia

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n 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 for horses aged three years old and over under weight for age

Weight for Age

Weight for Age is a term in Thoroughbred horse racing which is one of the conditions for a race. It means that a horse will carry a set weight in accordance with the Weight for Age Scale. This weight varies depending on the horse’s age, its sex, the race distance and the month of the year...

 conditions, over a distance of 1200 metres. It is held annually at Moonee Valley Racecourse

Moonee Valley Racecourse

Moonee Valley Racecourse is a horse-racing track in Melbourne, Australia which hosts races for Thoroughbreds. Located six kilometers from the Melbourne CBD, it is the home of the Moonee Valley Racing Club...

 in Melbourne

Melbourne

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 in January.

Race history

1989 onwards held over 1200 metres

1989 was a Listed Race

1990 – 1993 was a Group 3

1994 onwards Group 2

1989 - 1997 the race was known as the Stanley Wootton Stakes

1998 - 2009 the race was called the Norman Carlyon Stakes

2010 onwards the race has been called Australia Stakes

The winners

• 2011 - Whitefriars
• 2010 - Black Caviar
  Black Caviar (horse)
  Black Caviar is an undefeated Australian Thoroughbred racehorse, considered to be the best sprinter in the world, having been named WTRR World Champion Sprinter in 2010. On 31 March 2011 Black Caviar was rated one of the top Thoroughbred racehorses in the world for the first quarter of 2011 by...
  
  
• 2009 - Lucky Secret
• 2008 - Let Go Thommo
• 2007 - El Segundo
  El Segundo (horse)
  El Segundo is a Thoroughbred racehorse. He is a bay son of Pins from the mare Palos Verdes by Flying Spur.Foaled in 2001 at Ancroft Stud, Matamata, New Zealand he was sold as a yearling for $140,000 and has spent his entire racing career in Australia under the care of trainer Colin Little.Amongst...
  
  
• 2006 - California Dane
• 2005 - Super Elegant
• 2004 - Vocabulary
• 2003 - Yell
• 2002 - Royal Code
• 2001 - Piavonic
• 2000 - Slavonic
• 1999 - Sports
• 1998 - Flavour
• 1997 - Clang
• 1996 - All Our Mob
  All our mob
  All Our Mob was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who was a four-time Group One winner. He was by What A Guest out of All Sold . All Our Mob, who had always shown plenty of speed but a tendency to wilt over the closing stages, blossomed in the latter half of his four-year-old season, in the...
  
  
• 1995 - Hareeba
  Hareeba
  Hareeba was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who won six Black Type races including two Group One sprints in the 1990s.He was a bay gelding sired by Al Hareb out of Headford Lass .-Racing career:Hareeba had three starts a two-year-old without success, but returned at three, and, after...
  
  
• 1994 - Kenvain
• 1993 - Schillaci
  Schillaci (horse)
  Schillaci was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who was an eight-time Group One winner. He was by Salieri out of Biscarina . A huge grey gelding, Schillaci was a $70,000 purchase at the 1990 yearling sales, and was named after Salvatore Schillaci, who was the leading goal scorer at the 1990...
  
  
• 1992 - Dapper’s Hope
• 1991 - Dark Beau
• 1990 - Redelva
  Redelva
  Redelva was a notable Australian thoroughbred racehorse.A chestnut son of Romantic Hope from the mare Delvena, he was foaled in 1983 and was trained throughout his career by Greg Varcoe....
  
  
• 1989 - Jet Fighter