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Pippie
Pippie (foaled 13 October 2015) is a multiple Group 1 winning Australian bred thoroughbred racehorse. Background Pippie was bred at Eureka Stud in Cambooya, Queensland and later sold through the 2017 Inglis Classic Yearling sale in Sydney. She was purchased for A$60,000 by her trainer John Meagher. Racing career 2017/18: two-year-old season Pippie made her race debut on the 5 July 2018 in a 1,000 metre race at Cranbourne. Taken straight to the front by jockey Noel Callow, Pippie streaked away from her rivals to win by 5 lengths. 2018/19: three-year-old season On 4 August 2018, Pippie contested a 1,000 metre handicap for three year old fillies at Moonee Valley. Jumping slowly from the barriers she settled midfield throughout the race. After briefly hitting the front in the home straight under Noel Callow, she was eventually passed by Multaja from the Godolphin stable and finished in 2nd position beaten by 2 lengths. On 18 August 2018, Pippie contested her first sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Written Tycoon
Written Tycoon (foaled 6 September 2002) is a Group races, stakes winning Australian Thoroughbred racehorse and successful sire who has sired multiple Group One, Group 1 winners. Racing career Written Tycoon commenced his race career with an easy win at Randwick Racecourse, Randwick as a pronounced 7/4 favourite. Two weeks later, he was narrowly beaten by filly Fashions Afield at Randwick. Fashions Afield would later frank the form in claiming the Sires' Produce Stakes (ATC), Sires' Produce Stakes and Reisling Stakes. Written Tycoon then recorded his only other career victory when winning the Todman Stakes at Rosehill Racecourse, Rosehill. Written Tycoon was retired as a four-year old after finishing unplaced in the Challenge Stakes (ATC), Challenge Stakes. Stud career Written Tycoon initially stood at Eliza Park Stud in Victoria, Australia for a service fee of A$6,600. In 2013 he was relocated to Woodside Park Stud for a fee of $13,750. By 2018 his service fee had increas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
W W Cockram Stakes
The W. W. Cockram Stakes is a Melbourne Racing Club Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race for mares four years old and older, run at set weights with penalties, over a distance of 1200 metres at Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia. Prizemoney is A$200,000. History Name The race is named in honour of prominent Victorian breeder W.W. (Wally) Cockram, who served as Vice Chairman of the Victorian Amateur Turf Club and Melbourne Racing Club from 1970 to 1984. Venue *1992–1993 - held at Sandown Park Racecourse * 1994 - Caulfield Racecourse *1995–1996 - held at Sandown Park Racecourse * 1997 - Caulfield Racecourse *1998–2001 - held at Sandown Park Racecourse *2002 onwards - Caulfield Racecourse Name * 2002 - Sir Edward Dunlop Research Foundation Stakes * 2014 - Sportingbet Sprint Series Heat 1 Stakes * 2015 - William Hill Sprint Series Heat 1 Stakes Winners * 2024 - Quintessa * 2023 - Benedetta * 2022 - Chain Of Lightning * 2021 - Probabeel * 2020 - Perfect Jewe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oakleigh Plate
The Oakleigh Plate is a Melbourne Racing Club Group One, Group 1 Thoroughbred open handicap horse race, run over a distance of 1100 metres at Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia in late February. Total prize money is A$750,000. History The Oakleigh Plate forms the middle leg of the autumn sprinting series over the Melbourne Autumn Carnival, preceded by the G1 Lightning Stakes run over 1000m, Weight for Age, WFA, Flemington Racecourse, Flemington, on the last Saturday in January, and followed by the Newmarket Handicap, run over 1200m at Flemington in the first week of March. 1949 racebook File:1949 VATC Oakleigh Plate Racebook P1.jpg, 1949 VATC Oakleigh Plate racebook front cover File:1949 VATC Oakleigh Plate Racebook P2.jpg, 1949 VATC Oakleigh Plate raceday officials File:1949 VATC Oakleigh Plate Racebook P3.jpg, 1949 VATC Oakleigh Plate showing the winner, San Domenico (horse), San Domenico File:1949 VATC Oakleigh Plate Racebook P4.jpg, 1949 VATC Oakleigh Plate starter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A J Moir Stakes
The A J Moir Stakes is a Moonee Valley Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged three years old and over under Weight for age conditions, over a distance of 1000 metres, held at Moonee Valley Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia in late September. Prizemoney is A$1,000,000. History The A J Moir Stakes was named after former Chairman of the Moonee Valley Racing Club (1960–75), long standing committeeman and prominent Melbourne solicitor Alan John Moir KCMG (1903–81) of the Melbourne establishment firm Gillott, Moir and Winneke - now MinterEllison. As a prominent lawyer and company Director he held various other positions including; President of the Victorian Law Institute (1939–40), Director and Chairman of GTV 9 and Director of David Syme and Co Limited (the Age) where he played an important role in the formation of Syme as a public company in 1948. He received a CMG (Companion title Order of Saint Michael and Saint George) title in 1971 for his services ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Meech
Linda Meech (born 1980) is an Australian jockey. Born in New Zealand, she went to Australia on a working holiday in 1998 and stayed. Life and career Meech grew up on the family farm in Pongaroa, in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. She began her jockey's apprenticeship in Queensland, then moved to New South Wales before settling in Victoria. She rode in her first race in 1999. In November 2013 she became the second Australian woman, after Clare Lindop in 2008, to win 1000 races. She won her first Group One race on Plucky Belle in the Coolmore Classic in March 2015. In 2019, Meech was the first woman to win the Victorian Jockeys' Premiership, when she rode 145 winners from 755 rides. As of mid-June 2025, she has ridden 1,986 winners, including two in Group One Group One, Group 1, Grade I or G1 is the term used for the highest level of Thoroughbred and Standardbred stakes races in many countries. In Europe, the level of races for Thoroughbred racing i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How Now Stakes
The How Now Stakes, Melbourne Racing Club Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race held under set weights with penalties conditions, for mares aged four years old and upwards, over a distance of 1200 metres in late September. It is held at Caulfield Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia. History The registered race is named after the brilliant filly How Now, who won the 1976 Underwood Stakes. This race is held on the same card as the Underwood Stakes. Distance From 1999 onwards held over 1200m Grade * 1999–2004 - Listed Race * 2005 onwards - Group 3. Name * 1999 - Cranbourne Daihatsu Stakes * 2000–2001 - Dairy Farmers Milk Stakes * 2002 - Dubai Convention Bureau Stakes * 2003–2004 - Emirates Racing Association Stakes * 2005 - Dubai International Stakes * 2006 - How Now Stakes * 2007 - South Yarra Stakes * 2008–2011 - How Now Stakes * 2012–2014 - Sportingbet Sprint Series Heat 2 Stakes * 2015 - William Hill Sprint Series Heat 2 Stakes * 2016 - Ladbrokes Odds Boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Begonia Belle Stakes
The Begonia Belle Stakes, raced as Furphy Sprint (2019) is a registered Victoria Racing Club Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race for mares aged four years old and upwards, run at set weights with penalties, over a distance of 1100 metres, held annually at Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia in November during the VRC Spring Carnival on Victoria Derby Day. Total prize money for the race is A$200,000. History The registered race is named after Begonia Belle, winner of the 1969 Newmarket Handicap. The race was originally raced on the third day of the VRC Spring Carnival, VRC Oaks day but was moved in 2016 to the first day of the carnival. Name * 2005 - The Heaven Sprint * 2006–2007 - Crown Trophy * 2008 - Crown Promenade Trophy * 2009–2010 - Crown Promenade Stakes * 2011–2015 - G.H. Mumm Stakes * 2016 - Sensis Stakes * 2017 - Skip Sprint * 2018 onwards - Furphy Sprint Distance * 2005 onwards - 1100 metres. Grade * 2005–2008 - Handicap * 2009–2013 - Listed Race * 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flemington Racecourse
Flemington Racecourse is a major horse racing venue located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is most notable for hosting the Melbourne Cup, which is the world's richest handicap and the world's richest 3200-metre horse race. The racecourse is situated on low alluvial flats, next to the Maribyrnong River. The area was first used for horse racing in March 1840. Overview The Flemington Racecourse site comprises 1.27 square kilometres of Crown land. The course was originally leased to the Victoria Turf Club in 1848, which merged with the Victoria Jockey Club in 1864 to form the Victoria Racing Club. The first Melbourne Cup was run in 1861. In 1871 the Victoria Racing Club Act was passed, giving the VRC legal control over Flemington Racecourse. The racecourse is pear-shaped, and boasts a six-furlong (1,200 m) straight known as 'the Straight Six.' The track has a circumference of and a final straight of for race distances over . Races are run in an anti-clo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damien Oliver
Damien Oliver (born 22 June 1972) is an Australian Retirement, retired thoroughbred racing jockey. Oliver comes from a racing family; his father Ray Oliver had a successful career until his death in a race fall during the 1975 Kalgoorlie Cup in Western Australia. In 2008, Oliver was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame. In August 2023 he announced that he would retire at the end of that year's spring carnival. Early life and education Damien Oliver was born on 22 June 1972 in Perth, Western Australia. His father, Ray Oliver, was a jockey who died in Kalgoorlie from falling off his horse when Damien was three years old. As a child, he attended Byford Primary School in Byford, Western Australia, Byford, Western Australia. Racing career Oliver's riding career started in 1988, and he completed his apprenticeship with his stepfather Lindsey Rudland and Lee Freedman. His first win as an apprentice was in March 1988 on Mr. Gudbud, at Bunbury, Western Australia and his fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Goodwood
The Goodwood is a South Australian Jockey Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for three years old and older, run at set weights with penalties, over a distance of 1200 metres at Morphettville Racecourse, Adelaide, South Australia in the SAJC Autumn Carnival. History In 2007 the race conditions were set weights and penalties after previously being a handicap race throughout its 121-year history and was renamed The Goodwood from Goodwood Handicap. The event is the richest sprint race in autumn in Adelaide with $502,250 in prize money. The race was a principal race until 1980 when it was granted Group 1 status. In the years between 1881–1885 the distance was one mile. The race has always attracted high calibre sprinters. Recently such champions as Black Caviar and Takeover Target have won the race who have gone on to win overseas. Two horses have won the race twice with Mostyn (1894–95) and Musket Belle (1911–12). Aurie's Star which won the race in 1940, had in previous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Reid Stakes
The William Reid Stakes is a horse race of Moonee Valley Racing Club Group 1 thoroughbred racing at Weight for Age, for three year olds and older, run over a distance of 1200 metres at Moonee Valley Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia in the autumn. Total prize money for the race is A$1,000,000. History The race has been won by a few champions including Manikato who won the race five consecutive times from 1979 to 1983. Also noted champions Black Caviar and Miss Andretti won the race before being successful at Royal Ascot. From 2005 to 2007 it was the second leg of the Global Sprint Challenge, preceded by the Lightning Stakes and followed by the King's Stand Stakes. It has now been replaced as an Australian leg of the Global Sprint Challenge series by The Age Classic. Name The William Reid Stakes was named after William Reid, a former committee member of the Moonee Valley Racing Club. Originally from Morayshire, Scotland, William Reid was a Victorian Banker and racehorse owner wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Sangster Stakes
The Robert Sangster Stakes, is a South Australian Jockey Club Group 1 Thoroughbred Weight for Age horse race for fillies and mares two (2) years old and upwards, over a distance of 1200 metres at the Morphettville Racecourse Adelaide, Australia in the Autumn Carnival. Prize money is A$1,000,000 History The race was held in February prior to 2006. After rescheduling of the Adelaide Cup Carnival the SAJC moved the race to the autumn. In 2005 the race was renamed the Robert Sangster Stakes after prolific owner and breeder Robert Sangster who died in 2004. Robert Sangster was the principal of Swettenham Stud and the renaming recognises his contribution to the Australian thoroughbred industry. Name *1983–2004 - Swettenham Stud Stakes *2005–2009 - Robert Sangster Stakes *2010–2014 - Sportingbet Classic *2015 - William Hill Classic *2016–2018 - Ubet Classic *2019 onwards - TAB Classic Grade * 1983 - Special Race *1984–1985 - Listed Race *1986–2003 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
