Magic Night Stakes

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Magic Night Stakes
Group 3 race
Location Rosehill Racecourse
Inaugurated1975
Race type Thoroughbred - flat
Sponsor Tresemme (2023)
Race information
Distance1,200 metres
SurfaceTurf
TrackRight-handed
QualificationTwo year old fillies
WeightSet weights 55+12  kg
Purse A$200,000 (2023)
BonusesExempt from ballot for the Golden Slipper Stakes (if nominated)

The Magic Night Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race, for two-year-old fillies, at set weights, over a distance of 1200 metres, held annually at Rosehill Racecourse in Sydney, Australia in March. Total prize money for the race is A$200,000.

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History

The race is named in honour of Magic Night, winner of the 1961 Golden Slipper Stakes. [1]

For the 2016 running the race was named in honour of trainer Bede Murray who died a week before the race. [2]

Five fillies have captured the Magic Night Golden Slippers double:
Toy Show (1975), Dark Eclipse (1980), Bounding Away (1986), Bint Marscay (1993) and Kiamichi (2019).

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Winners

† Race run in Divisions

See also

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