Caulfield Stakes

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The Might and Power
registered as the Caulfield Stakes
Group 1 race
Bernborough 1946 VRC Newmarket Handicap Flemington Racecourse Jockey Athol Mulley Trainer Harry Plant.jpg
Bernborough, 1946 winner
Location Caulfield Racecourse
Melbourne,
Australia
Inaugurated1886
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Sponsor Neds (2022)
Website www.melbourneracingclub.net.au
Race information
Distance2,000 metres
SurfaceTurf
TrackLeft-handed
QualificationThree year olds and older that are not maidens
Weight Weight for Age
Purse $1,000,000 (2022)
BonusesWinner exempt from ballot in the Caulfield Cup

The Might and Power, registered as the Caulfield Stakes is a Melbourne Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race run under weight-for-age conditions, for three-year-olds and upwards, run over a distance of 2,000 metres at Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia. Prizemoney is A$1,000,000. [1] [2]

Contents

History

The race is held annually in October on Caulfield Guineas day, the first day of the MRC Spring Carnival. The conditions of the race in regard to distance and WFA is similar to the W. S. Cox Plate, held a fortnight after the Caulfield Stakes, and many Cox Plate contenders will use this race as a preparatory race.

During World War II the race was run at Flemington Racecourse. [3]

Amounis, 1930 winner Amounis 1930 VATC Futurity Stakes Jockey Harold Jones Trainer Frank McGrath.jpg
Amounis, 1930 winner
Gothic, 1928 winner Gothic 1928 VATC Caulfield Stakes Jockey Jim Pike Trainer Lou Robertson.jpg
Gothic, 1928 winner
Tranquil Star, 1942 winner Tranquil Star 1946 Olympic Park Melbourne Farewell Jockey Scobie Breasley Trainer Ron Cameron.jpg
Tranquil Star, 1942 winner
1916 winner - Lavendo Lavendo 1915 VATC Caulfield Cup Jockey Frank Dempsey Trainer Lou Robertson.jpg
1916 winner Lavendo
Comic Court, 1950 winner Comic Court (AUS).jpg
Comic Court, 1950 winner
Lucrative, 1941 winner LUCRATIVE 1940 VRC DERBY MAURICE McCARTEN.JPG
Lucrative, 1941 winner

The 2016 edition of the race attracted only three entries, the smallest ever G1 race in Australia with champion mare Winx scaring off potential rivals. [4] In 2021 the race was renamed The Might and Power to honour the 1997 Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup winner who won this race back in 1998. [5]

Name

Distance

Grade

Double winners

Thoroughbreds that have won the Caulfield Stakes W. S. Cox Plate double: [6]

Thoroughbreds that have won the Caulfield Stakes Caulfield Cup double:

1922 racebook

Winners

Dead heat

See also

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