Gimcrack Stakes (ATC)

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Gimcrack Stakes
Group 3 race
Location Randwick Racecourse,
Sydney, Australia
Inaugurated1906
Race type Thoroughbred - flat
Sponsor Keeneland (2022)
Race information
Distance1,000 metres
SurfaceTurf
TrackRight-handed
QualificationTwo year old fillies
WeightSet 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.

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History

Name

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]

1942 racebook

Distance

Grade

Venue

Winners

♯ Run in divisions
‡ Not held because of outbreak of equine influenza [37]

See also

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