Up and Coming Stakes

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Up and Coming Stakes
Group 3 race
Location Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia
Inaugurated 1979
Race type Thoroughbred
Race information
Distance 1,300 metres
Surface Turf
Track Right-handed
Qualification Three year old colts and geldings
Weight Set weights with penalties
Purse $125,000 (2015)

The Up and Coming Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old colts and geldings, run at set weights with penalties, over a distance of 1300 metres at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia in August.[1] Prizemoney is A$125,000.

Race history

The race is considered a good start to returning to racing in the new racing calendar for talented three-year-olds gearing up for an Australian spring campaign. The race is often won by a classy three-year-old, as evidenced by the honour roll of past winners. Top class gallopers Fastnet Rock, Exceed and Excel, Testa Rossa and General Nediym who won this race, each of these gallopers went on to become genuine stars.[2]

Race name

The race is named in honour of the 1959 Warwick Stakes winner Up And Coming.[3] The race is held on the same racecard as the Warwick Stakes.[1]

Race distance

  • 1980–1988 – 1200 metres
  • 1989 – 1160 metres[4]
  • 1990–2010 – 1200 metres
  • 2011 onwards - 1300 metres

Race grade

  • 1979 - Listed race
  • 1980–1992 - Group 3
  • 1993–2004 - Group 2
  • 2005–2012 - Group 3
  • 2013 - Group 2
  • 2014 onwards - Group 3

Race venue

The winners

  • 2015 - Shards [5]
  • 2014 - Scissor Kick [6]
  • 2013 - War [7]
  • 2012 - Albrecht [8]
  • 2011 - Manawanui [9]
  • 2010 - Blackball [10]
  • 2009 - Rarefied [11]
  • 2008 - Dreamscape [12]
  • 2007 - †race not held
  • 2006 - Court Command [13]
  • 2005 - Snitzel [14]
  • 2004 - Fastnet Rock [15]
  • 2003 - Exceed And Excel [16]
  • 2002 - Snowland [17]
  • 2001 - Newquay [18]
  • 2000 - Zariz [19]
  • 1999 - Testa Rossa [20]
  • 1998 - Paris Dream [21]
  • 1997 - General Nediym [22]
  • 1996 - Paint [23]
  • 1995 - Our Maizcay [24]
  • 1994 - Bulldog Yeats [25]
  • 1993 - Mahogany [26]
  • 1992 - West End [27]
  • 1991 - Kinjite [28]
  • 1990 - The Bullfighter [29]
  • 1989 - Patronise[4]
  • 1988 - Star Watch [30]
  • 1987 - Sky Chase [31]
  • 1986 - Broad Reach [32]
  • 1985 - Timothy [33]
  • 1984 - Royal Troubador [34]
  • 1983 - Sir Dapper [35]
  • 1982 - Marscay
  • 1981 - Best Western
  • 1980 - John's Hero [36]
  • 1979 - Spear

† Not held because of outbreak of equine influenza[37]

See also

References

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