Class | Group 2 |
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Location | Eagle Farm Racecourse Brisbane, Australia |
Inaugurated | 1992 (as Crown Lager Fillies and Mares Quality Handicap) |
Race type | Thoroughbred - Flat racing |
Sponsor | Magic Millions (2022) |
Race information | |
Distance | 1,300 metres |
Surface | Turf |
Track | Right-handed |
Qualification | Fillies and Mares |
Weight | Set Weights with penalties |
Purse | A$200,000 (2022) |
The Dane Ripper Stakes is a Brisbane Racing Club Group 2 Thoroughbred horse race held, under quality handicap conditions, for fillies and mares, over a distance of 1300 metres held at Eagle Farm Racecourse in Brisbane during the Queensland Winter Racing Carnival. [1] Prizemoney is A$200,000.
Due to track reconstruction of Eagle Farm Racecourse for the 2014–15 racing season the event was transferred to Doomben Racecourse and run over a slightly shorter distance. [2]
The race was inaugurated as a supporting race (Race 7) on the Stradbroke Handicap racecard on 6 June 1992. [3] Recently the race has been scheduled on Queensland Oaks day. [1] but was moved in 2013 to Stradbroke Handicap day. The race was upgraded to a Listed race in 2003. [1]
Winners of the Dane Ripper Stakes–Winter Stakes double are Blushing Bijou (1992) and Tripping (1996). [1]