Phar Lap Stakes

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Phar Lap Stakes
Group 2 race
Phar Lap.jpg
Phar Lap and jockey Jim Pike at
Flemington Racecourse
Location Rosehill Gardens Racecourse
Inaugurated1973
Race type Thoroughbred
Sponsor Chandon (2023)
Race information
Distance1,500 metres
SurfaceTurf
QualificationThree-year-olds
WeightSet weights
colts and geldings 56+12  kg
fillies 54+12 kg
Purse $250,000 (2023)

The Phar Lap Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group 2 Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds, at set weights, over a distance of 1500 metres, held annually at Rosehill Racecourse in Sydney, Australia in March. [1] Total prize money is A$250,000.

Contents

History

Name

The race is named after probably the most famous horse and a symbol of Australian horse racing, Phar Lap the only horse in history to be the favourite in three successive Melbourne Cups. [1]

Distance

Winners

† Dead heat

See also

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