All-Star Mile

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All-Star Mile
Group 1 race
Location Flemington Racecourse, Caulfield Racecourse and The Valley
Inaugurated2019
Race type Thoroughbred flat
Race information
Distance1,600 metres
SurfaceTurf
Purse $3.75 million (2024)

The All-Star Mile is an Australian thoroughbred horse race run over 1,600 metres that is rotated between Flemington Racecourse, Caulfield Racecourse and The Valley in Melbourne, Australia in March each year. It was run for the first time in 2019 and is run under Weight for Age conditions for open class horses. [1]

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In the initial years the public voted to determining most of the field that competes in the race each year. Owners and trainers had to nominate their horses in January and then the public voted for which horses should be in the starting line up. [2]

From 2024 the selection of the All-Star Mile field became a mixture of ‘Win and You're In' races and wildcards with a maximum field of 16 starters. [3] The eight races where the winner can gain automatic entry are:

Results

Year
Venue
Winner
Age/Gender
Jockey
Trainer
TimeSecond
Third
2024 [4] Caulfield Pride Of Jenni [5] 6yo MareDeclan Bates Ciaron Maher 1:35.22 Mr Brightside Cascadian
2023 [6] The Valley Mr Brightside 5yo GeldingLuke CurrieBen & J D Hayes1:34.47 Cascadian The Inevitable
2022 [7] Flemington Zaaki (GB) [8] 7yo Gelding Jamie Kah Annabel Neasham1:36.54I'm ThunderstruckStreets of Avalon
2021 [9] The ValleyMugatoo (Ire)6yo Gelding Hugh Bowman Kris Lees1:39.82 Russian Camelot Behemoth
2020 [10] CaulfieldRegal Power4yo GeldingWilliam PikeGrant & Alana Williams1:36.57Superstorm Melody Belle
2019 [11] Flemington Mystic Journey 3yo FillyAnthony DarmaninAdam Trindler1:34.77 Hartnell Alizee

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