The Salinger Stakes is a Victoria Racing Club

Victoria Racing Club

The Victoria Racing Club was founded in 1864. It was formed following the disbanding of the Victoria Turf Club and the Victoria Jockey Club. A legacy passed from the Victoria Turf Club was the annual “race that stops a nation”, the Melbourne Cup, which was first contested in 1861.From its...

 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...

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Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

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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 held at Flemington Racecourse

Flemington Racecourse

Flemington Racecourse is a major horse racing venue located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is most notable for hosting the Melbourne Cup, which is Australia's richest horse race. The racecourse is situated on low alluvial flats, next to the Maribyrnong River...

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Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

 on VRC Derby Day. The event is an open handicap run over a distance of 1200 metres. Total prize money for the race is A$300,000 and $2,000 trophy. It was run as a Group 2 for the first time in 2007, taking over the Group 2 status of The Age Classic

The Age Classic

The Patinack Farm Classic is a Victoria Racing Club Group One Australian Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged three years old and over, under weight for age conditions, over a distance of 1200 metres...

, a 1200 metre WFA

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...

 race run one week later.

Race history

• Held as Craven A Stakes 1960-79
• Pure-Pak Stakes 1980-84
• Gasden Rheem Stakes 1985-93
• Southcorp Stakes 1994-95
• In 2007, it was downgraded from Group 1 to Group 2 status.

The winners

• 2011 : Sister Madly
• 2010 : Whitefriars
• 2009 : Eagle Falls
• 2008 : Hot Danish
• 2007 : Swick
• 2006 : Dance Hero
• 2005 : Glamour Puss
  Glamour Puss
  For the Dave Sim comic, see Glamourpuss.Glamour Puss is a New Zealand thoroughbred racemare who also races in Australia. She is trained by Danny O'Brien...
  
  
• 2004 : Takeover Target
  Takeover Target
  Takeover Target is a much travelled Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who has won top sprinting races in each of the five major cities in Australia as well as the United Kingdom, Japan and Singapore....
  
  
• 2003 : Ancient Song
• 2002 : Rubitano
• 2001 : Sudurka
• 2000 : Easy Rocking
• 1999 : Pharein
• 1998 : Flavour
• 1997 : Notoire
• 1996 : Gold Ace
• 1995 : Brawny Spirit
• 1994 : 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...
  
  

• 1993 : Alishan
• 1992 : Unspoken Word
• 1991 : Final Card
• 1990 : Planet Ruler
• 1989 : Planet Ruler
• 1988 : Special
• 1987 : Sky Filou
• 1986 : Taj Quillo
• 1985 : Lord Ballina
• 1984 : River Rough
• 1983 : River Rough
• 1982 : Forgone Conclusion
• 1981 : Zegna
• 1980 : Watney
• 1979 : Rooney
• 1978 : Always Welcome
• 1977 : Galway Bay

• 1976 : Maybe Mahal
• 1975 : Miss Lockleys
• 1974 : Scamanda
• 1973 : Century
• 1972 : Beaches
• 1971 : Welsh Prince
• 1970 : Dual Choice
• 1969 : Vain
  Vain (horse)
  Vain was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse that dominated Australian sprint racing in the period 1968–70, when he won 12 of the 14 races he contested and ran second in the other two...
  
  
• 1968 : Snub
• 1967 : Iga Ninja
• 1966 : Marmion
• 1965 : Picca
• 1964 : Star Of Heaven
• 1963 : Ripa
• 1962 : Samson
• 1961 : Bengal Tiger
• 1960 : Karina