The Vauxhall Trial Stakes was an Irish

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 Thoroughbred horse race

Thoroughbred horse race

Thoroughbred horse racing is a worldwide sport and industry involving the racing of Thoroughbred horses. It is governed by different national bodies. There are two forms of the sport: Flat racing and National Hunt racing...

 run annually at Phoenix Park Racecourse

Phoenix Park Racecourse

Phoenix Park Racecourse is a former horse racing venue in Ireland. It was located in the north-west corner of Dublin on the northern edge of Phoenix Park. The course was founded by J. H. H. Peard, and racing began there in 1902....

 in Dublin. Raced on turf

Grass

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, the seven furlong

Furlong

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 event was open to three-year-old horses. A Group III event, the race ended when financial difficulties resulted in the track closing for racing in late 1990.

Notable winners of the Vauxhall Trial Stakes include Irish Two-Year-Old Champion Colts, Roberto

Roberto (horse)

Roberto was an American-bred Thoroughbred Champion racehorse who competed in Ireland and England.-Background:Roberto was bred by Galbreath at his Darby Dan Farm near Lexington, Kentucky. The son of the successful sire Hail To Reason out of the dam Bramalea, Roberto's grandsire was Turn-To, a...

 (1972), http://books.google.ca/books?id=A-u5afd7jBwC&pg=PA153&lpg=PA15 Sea Break (1975), http://www.capricornstudfarm.com/capricorn_pdf/Super%20cal.pdf and Try My Best

Try My Best

Try My Best was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred by E. P. Taylor, Try My Best was sired by the great Northern Dancer and out of the mare Sex Appeal, who also produced his full brother El Gran Senor....

(1975).