Class | Group 3 |
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Location | Randwick Racecourse Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Inaugurated | 1947 (as Rosehill Cup) |
Race type | Thoroughbred – Flat racing |
Sponsor | The Agency Illawarra (2025) |
Race information | |
Distance | 2,000 metres |
Surface | Turf |
Track | Right-handed |
Qualification | Three years old and older |
Weight | Quality handicap |
Purse | $250,000 (2025) |
The Premier's Cup is an Australian Turf Club Group 3 Thoroughbred quality handicap horse race, for horses aged three years old and older, over a distance of 2,000 metres, held annually in August.
Since 2022 it has been raced at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia but previously it was held at Rosehill. The 2021 edition was raced at Kembla Grange due to Covid-19 protocols. [1]
A notable winner was Hydrogen who would go on to win the Cox Plate in 1953 and 1954.
† The 2007 race was not held because of outbreak of equine influenza [32]
‡ Meeting was abandoned due to weather