Flight Stakes

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Flight Stakes
Group 1 race
Flight 1946 VRC LKS Mackinnon Stakes Flemington Racecourse Jockey Jack O'Sullivan Trainer Frank Nowland.jpg
Flight, and Jack O'Sullivan.
Location Randwick Racecourse,
Sydney, Australia
Inaugurated1947
Race type Thoroughbred - flat
Sponsor Darley (2022)
Race information
Distance1,600 metres
SurfaceTurf
TrackRight-handed
QualificationThree year old fillies
WeightSet weights 56  kg
Purse A$750,000 (2022)
BonusesWinner exemption from a ballot on the Doncaster Mile

The Flight Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old fillies, at Set Weights, run over a distance of 1600 metres at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia in early October. [1] Total prize money for the race is A$750,000.

Contents

History

The race is named for champion Australian Hall of Fame mare Flight, the winner of the W. S. Cox Plate in 1945 and 1946. The race is part of the Epsom Handicap racecard. [1]

Flight, and Jack Thompson Flight 1944 AJC Australia Day Handicap Randwick Racecourse Jockey Jack Thompson Trainer Frank Nowland.jpg
Flight, and Jack Thompson

Grade

Distance

Venue

Winners

† Dead heat
‡ Not held because of outbreak of equine influenza [41]

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