Sapphire Stakes (Australia)
Encyclopedia
The Sapphire Stakes is an Australian Jockey Club
Group 2
Thoroughbred
horse race for three year olds and upward, fillies and mares, at set weights with penalties, over a distance of 1200 metres. It is held annually at Randwick Racecourse
in Sydney
in April. Total prize money for the race is A$150,000.
Australian Jockey Club
The Australian Jockey Club was founded in January 1842. It morphed from the former Australian Racing Committee set up in May 1840 to set the standards for racing in the colony...
Group 2
Group races
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Thoroughbred
Thoroughbred
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horse race for three year olds and upward, fillies and mares, at set weights with penalties, over a distance of 1200 metres. It is held annually at Randwick Racecourse
Randwick Racecourse
Royal Randwick Racecourse is a racecourse for horseracing in the Eastern Suburbs in Sydney, New South Wales. Randwick Racecourse, is operated by the Australian Jockey Club and known to many Sydney racegoers as headquarters...
in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
in April. Total prize money for the race is A$150,000.
Race history
- The race was a Listed class race before 2002
- The race was upgraded from a Group 3 to Group 2 in 2007.
The winners
- 2011 Hurtle Myrtle
- 2010 Renaissance
- 2009 Court
- 2008 Belong to Many
- 2007 Fire Song
- 2006 Coolroom Candidate
- 2005 Glamour Puss
- 2004 Recurring
- 2003 Fatoon
- 2002 Fair Embrace
- 2001 Spinning Hill
- 2000 Spinning Hill
- 1999 Snippet's Lass
- 1998 What Can I Say
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- In 1999 Little Pattie was first past the post, but later disqualified for returning a positive swabEquine drug testingRacehorse drug testing began in the early 1900s. It is the longest established, broadest in scope, and possibly the most sensitive drug testing program in existence. Racehorse drug testing is performed within an extremely stringent regulatory context...
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- In 1999 Little Pattie was first past the post, but later disqualified for returning a positive swab