Gimcrack Stakes (PR)

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Gimcrack Stakes
Group 3 race
Location Ascot Racecourse, Perth, Western Australia
Inaugurated1978 (Principal Race)
Race type Thoroughbred
Sponsor Furphy (2023)
Race information
Distance1,100 metres
SurfaceTurf
QualificationTwo year old fillies
WeightSet weights with penalties
Purse $150,000 (2023)

The Gimcrack Stakes is a Perth Racing Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-old fillies, run at set weights with penalties, over a distance of 1100 metres at Ascot Racecourse, Perth, Western Australia in March. Total prize money is A$150,000. [1]

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History

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.
The race is a preparatory race for the highly regarded Karrakatta Plate held a couple of weeks later. Usually the winner will be entered in the event.

Name

In 1983 the race was run as the Toyota Stakes.

Distance

Grade

Venue

Winners

¶ The event was run in divisions
‡ Race moved in the WATC racing calendar forward from late spring (November) to autumn (March) of 1998

See also

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