Group 3 race | |
Location |
Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia |
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Inaugurated | 1906 |
Race type | Thoroughbred - flat |
Sponsor | Keeneland (2022) |
Race information | |
Distance | 1,000 metres |
Surface | Turf |
Track | Right-handed |
Qualification | Two year old fillies |
Weight | Set weights – 56kg |
Purse | A$200,000 (2022) |
The Gimcrack Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race, for two-year-old fillies, held with set weight conditions, over a distance of 1000 metres at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Australia in early October. [1] Total prize money for the race is A$200,000.
The event is named after Gimcrack, a successful English racehorse in the 18th century. Gimcrack won twenty-seven times in a career of thirty-six races. Along with the Breeders' Plate these are the first two year old races in the New South Wales racing season. Starters in these event must participate in trials a couple of weeks before these event to gain acceptance. [2]
♯ Run in divisions
‡ Not held because of outbreak of
equine influenza
[37]