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A few Derby winners come via the Rough Habit Plate run at Doomben on Saturday.

Dark Dream did the double so another 3yo may stand up in the 2019 Rough Habit Plate (2000m) at Doomben on Saturday.

2019 Rough Habit Plate: Nominations

2019 ROUGH HABIT PLATE - RACE HISTORY AND BACKGROUND

The Rough Habit Plate is Group 3 race for three-year-olds conducted by the Brisbane Racing Club at Doomben.

The Rough Habit Plate was introduced in 1993 as a major lead-up race to the Queensland Derby and is named after the champion New Zealand galloper who won 11 Group One races including the Queensland Derby and two Stradbroke Handicaps in Brisbane.

The inaugural Rough Habit Plate was run as a handicap. It has been run set weight conditions since 1994.

The distance of the Rough Habit Plate has been 2000m since 2012 with the exception of 2013 when it was run over 2100m at Eagle Farm.  The distance has varied over the years from 2020m (1993-2001); 2200m (2002-2003); and 2020m (2004-2011).

The Rough Habit Plate became a Listed race in 1996 and has been Group 3 since 2006.

The Rough Habit Plate-Queensland Derby double has been won seven times by Tenor (1994), Dodge (1998), De Gaulle Lane (2001), Empires Choice (2007), Brambles (2012), Hawkspur (2013) and Dark Dream (2018).

The only filly to win the Rough Habit Plate has been Fillydelphia in 2011.

Damien Oliver rode the winner of the Rough Habit Plate five times between 1997 and 2008. Blake Shinn has ridden two recent winners of the Rough Habit Plate for trainer Chris Waller (Sadler’s Lake; Mackintosh).

Waller also trained the 2013 winner Hawkspur (Jim Cassidy).

The 2019 Rough Habit Plate will be run over 2000m for prizemoney of $140,000.

Notable winners of the Rough Habit Plate include Tenor, Juggler, Marble Halls, Dodge, De Gaulle Lane, Bobs Boy, Belmonte, Empires Choice, Rockdale, The Hombre, Brambles, Amexed, Hawkspur, Sadler’s Lake and Dark Dream.

The 2018 Rough Habit Plate was won by Dark Dream from Higher Ground and California Turbo.