Thousand Guineas Prelude
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The Thousand Guineas Prelude is a Melbourne Racing Club
Group 3
Australia
n Thoroughbred
horse race, for three year old fillies, at set weights with penalties, over a distance of 1400 metres. It is held annually at Caulfield Racecourse
in Melbourne
in September. Total prize money for the race is A$175,000.
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 3
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
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...
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 three year old fillies, at set weights with penalties, over a distance of 1400 metres. It is held annually at Caulfield Racecourse
Caulfield Racecourse
Caulfield Racecourse is one of Melbourne, Australia's best-known horse-racing tracks. Commonly known as "The Heath" by local racegoers, it is located eight kilometres from the Melbourne CBD, on the boundary of Caulfield and Caulfield East in Melbourne's south eastern suburbs...
in Melbourne
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...
in September. Total prize money for the race is A$175,000.
The winners
- 2011 Bliss Street
- 2010 Divorces
- 2009 Irish Lights
- 2008 Ortensia
- 2007 Gabbidon
- 2006 Miss FinlandMiss Finland-External links:*...
- 2005 Doubting
- 2004 Hollow Bullet
- 2003 Hinting
- 2002 La Bella Dame
- 2001 Haste Ye Back
- 2000 So Gorgeous
- 1999 Miss Pennymoney
- 1998 Danelagh
- 1997 Cornwall Queen
- 1996 Derobe
- 1995 Rubidium
- 1994 Majestic Dawn
- 1993 Brompton Cross
- 1992 Azzurro
- 1991 Chador
- 1990 Century Pike
- 1989 Pleasure Bandit
- 1988 Imposing Bloom
- 1987 Bianco Flyer
- 1986 Shackle
- 1985 Jewel In The Crown