The Warwick Stakes is a Group 2

Group races

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 Australia

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Thoroughbred

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 horse race at 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...

 that was traditionally run over a distance of 1400 metres at Warwick Farm Racecourse

Warwick Farm Racecourse

Warwick Farm Racecourse is a racecourse at Warwick Farm a south-west suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is used as a racecourse for Thoroughbred horse racing.- Races :...

, Sydney

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 in August. The distance and timing of the race have not changed but the race has been held at Randwick racecourse since 2003 (with the exception of 2004, when Randwick was unavailable, and 2007, when it was not run).

Past winners

• 2011 Pinwheel
• 2010 Metal Bender
• 2009 Trusting
• 2008 Racing To Win
• 2007 no race
• 2006 Court's In Session
• 2005 Sir Dex
• 2004 Private Steer
• 2003 Lonhro
  Lonhro
  Lonhro was a champion Australian racehorse who is now standing at stud. Nicknamed "The Black Flash", Lonhro was from the first crop of the champion Octagonal out of the Group One-placed Shadea , who also produced the Group One winner Niello...
  
  
• 2002 Defier
• 2001 Lonhro
  Lonhro
  Lonhro was a champion Australian racehorse who is now standing at stud. Nicknamed "The Black Flash", Lonhro was from the first crop of the champion Octagonal out of the Group One-placed Shadea , who also produced the Group One winner Niello...
  
  
• 2000 Al Mansour
• 1999 Sunline
  Sunline
  Sunline was a New Zealand bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was the world's highest earning racemare of her time, competing on 48 occasions for 32 wins, 9 seconds and 3 thirds to earn A$11,351,607. She won races in three different countries, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. She won successive...
  
  
• 1998 What Can I Say
• 1997 Filante
• 1996 Filante
• 1995 Star Dancer
• 1994 March Hare
• 1993 Prince Of Praise
• 1992 Shaftesbury Avenue
  Shaftesbury Avenue (horse)
  Shaftesbury Avenue was a versatile Australian racehorse who won Group One races from 1,000 to 2,000 metres, and was placed in the Japan Cup over 2,400 metres. He was a regular rival of Super Impose, and the head-to-head scoreline read four apiece in their eight clashes: Super Impose won the big...
  
  
• 1991 Super Impose
  Super Impose
  Super Impose was a New Zealand bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame. In a career spanning 74 starts, Super Impose won eight Group One races and a then Australasian record $5.6 million in prize money...
  
  
• 1990 Super Impose
  Super Impose
  Super Impose was a New Zealand bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame. In a career spanning 74 starts, Super Impose won eight Group One races and a then Australasian record $5.6 million in prize money...
  
  
• 1989 Groucho
• 1988 Flotilla
• 1987 Pablo's Pulse
• 1986 Riverdale
• 1985 Castanillia
• 1984 Phillip
• 1983 Yoyangamble
• 1982 Kingston Town
  Kingston Town
  Kingston Town was an outstanding Australian bred Thoroughbred racehorse who won a record three Cox Plates and 11 other Group One races in a career spanning from 1979 to 1982...
  
  
• 1981 Kingston Town
  Kingston Town
  Kingston Town was an outstanding Australian bred Thoroughbred racehorse who won a record three Cox Plates and 11 other Group One races in a career spanning from 1979 to 1982...
  
  
• 1980 Kingston Town
  Kingston Town
  Kingston Town was an outstanding Australian bred Thoroughbred racehorse who won a record three Cox Plates and 11 other Group One races in a career spanning from 1979 to 1982...
  
  
• 1979 Gypsy Kingdom

• 1978 Party's Pride
• 1977 Proficient
• 1976 Purple Patch
• 1975 Silver Shadow
• 1974 Jenarkol
• 1973 Longfella
• 1972 Nippon
• 1971 Ricochet
• 1970 Royal Show
• 1969 Fair Law
• 1968 Swift Peter
• 1967 Gay Gauntlet
• 1966 Prince Max
• 1965 Gay Gauntlet
• 1964 Reveille
• 1963 Cele's Image
• 1962 Sky High
  Sky High (horse)
  Sky High was an outstanding Australian Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Some of his major race victories include the 1960 STC Golden Slipper Stakes, 1960 VRC Derby, 1961 and 1962 VRC Lightning Stakes and the 1961 AJC Epsom Handicap.-Breeding:...
  
  
• 1961 Sky High
  Sky High (horse)
  Sky High was an outstanding Australian Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Some of his major race victories include the 1960 STC Golden Slipper Stakes, 1960 VRC Derby, 1961 and 1962 VRC Lightning Stakes and the 1961 AJC Epsom Handicap.-Breeding:...
  
  
• 1960 Sparkler
• 1959 Up And Coming
• 1958 Grey Ghost
• 1957 Tulloch
  Tulloch (horse)
  Tulloch was a Thoroughbred racehorse, who is regarded as one of the three finest racehorses in Australian racing history...
  
  
• 1956 El Khobar
• 1955 Prince Cortauld
• 1954 Tarien
• 1953 Tarien
• 1952 Foreign Exchange
• 1951 San Domenico
• 1950 San Domenico

• 1949 The Groom
• 1948 Septet
• 1947 Victory Lad
• 1946 Bernborough
  Bernborough
  Bernborough was an outstanding Australian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who competed from 1941 to 1946. He carried heavy weights to victory in a sequence of 15 consecutive wins that included the Doomben 10,000 carrying 10 stone 5 pounds....
  
  
• 1945 Removal
• 1944 Flight
  Flight (horse)
  Flight was an Australian Thoroughbred racemare that was the highest stakes winning mare in Australasia. Her courageous efforts made her a crowd favourite during the post World War II era and she had victories over some of the great horses of the time including Shannon, Bernborough, Royal Gem and...
  
  
• 1943 Katanga
• 1942 Yaralla
• 1941 High Caste
  High Caste
  High Caste was a Thoroughbred racehorse and stallion that was bred in New Zealand and was considered the best two-year-old in New Zealand after winning three of his four race starts. He was a good racehorse under handicap and weight for age conditions and combined this with wins in good races from...
  
  
• 1940 Beaulivre
• 1939 Defaulter
• 1938 Stretto
• 1937 Allunga
• 1936 Talking
• 1935 Rogilla
  Rogilla
  Rogilla, was a chestnut Australian Thoroughbred gelding, who was a versatile racehorse performing in Australia. Known as the Coalfields Champion in Newcastle, Rogilla raced during a vintage era of the Australian turf. He won in each of the six seasons that he raced as a three-year-old to a...
  
  
• 1935 Silver King
• 1934 Chatham
  Chatham (horse)
  Chatham was an outstanding Australian Thoroughbred racehorse that was bred by Percy Miller at the Kia Ora Stud near Scone in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales.-Pedigree:...
  
  
• 1933 Chatham
  Chatham (horse)
  Chatham was an outstanding Australian Thoroughbred racehorse that was bred by Percy Miller at the Kia Ora Stud near Scone in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales.-Pedigree:...
  
  
• 1932 Johnnie Jason
• 1931 Johnnie Jason
• 1930 Amounis
  Amounis
  Amounis was a good Australian Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse. He won 33 races over distances ranging from 6 to 12 furlongs . Of these wins, 27 were in "Principal Races" , 16 of these races have since been promoted to Group One status...
  
  
• 1929 Limerick
• 1928 Limerick
• 1927 Limerick
• 1926 Windbag
• 1925 Whittier
• 1924 Glentruin
• 1923 Sunburst