Winter Stakes

Winter Stakes

First run in 1989, the Winter Stakes is a great Group 1 race held at the esteemed Eagle Farm Racecourse in late June each year on the final raceday of the Brisbane Winter Carnival.

In 2012 the Winter Stakes is known as the Tattersall’s Tiara.

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Open to fillies and mares the Group 1 Winter Stakes is a middle distance gallop run over 1400m under weight-for-age conditions. Worth over $500, 000 the Winter Stakes is one of the Brisbane Turf Club’s most lucrative and prestigious events and as such attracts Queensland’s best female competitors as well as a number of interstate fillies and mares too.

The highlight event at the meeting, the Winter Stakes is accompanied by two other Group status races – the $200, 000 Group 3 Tattersall’s Cup and the $175, 000 Group 3 WJ Healy Stakes.

Lead Up Races

Fillies and mares looking towards the Winter Stakes at the end of the Brisbane Winter Carnival have a good range of earlier events well suited to prepare them for the testing Group 1 event. Races including the Group 3 Lady of the Turf Stakes (1350m) at Doomben in May and the Group 2 Dane Ripper Quality (1400m) serve as excellent preparatory runs for Winter Stakes’ hopefuls.

The last female to take out the Dane Ripper Quality – Winter Stakes double was Tripping in 1996.

Tripping is just one of a number of brilliant fillies and mares to claim Winter Stakes victory. Others include Dane Ripper in 1997, Bonanova in 2000 & 2001 and Miss Potential in 2004.