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Some big race winners have used the RA Lee Stakes run at Morphettville on Saturday as a springboard to future success.

Tawqeet ran in this race and would go onto take a Caulfield Cup. Is anything that good in the 2019 RA Lee Stakes (1600m) at Morphettville on Saturday?

2019 RA Lee Stakes: Nominations

2019 RA LEE STAKES - RACE HISTORY AND BACKGROUND

The RA Lee Stakes is a Group 3 race conducted by the South Australian Jockey Club at Morphettville in Adelaide.

The RA Lee Stakes, first run in 1979, is named after Robert Lee, a prominent racing industry figure in South Australia who was inducted into the SA Racing Hall Of Fame in 2011.

The RA Lee Stakes is run over 1600m and was first held at Victoria Park and then became a feature of the Adelaide Cup day program at Morphettville.

Since 2006 the RA Lee Stakes has been a feature of the Goodwood Handicap day program at Morphettville.

The 2019 RA Lee Stakes will be run over 1600m for prizemoney of $175,000.

The RA Lee Stakes, run under set weights and penalty conditions, was known as the RA Lee Stakes from 1979 to 1997.

Between 1998 and 2010 it carried a variety of sponsorship names but reverted to its original title in 2011.

The RA Lee Stakes was a Listed race from 1979 to 2005. It has been Group 3 since 2006.

Notable winners of the RA Lee Stakes include Flanders Fields, Mrs Fitzherbert, Leggings, Ben’s Rocket, Fly For Me, Sassbee, Life’s A Bounty, Brockman’s Lass, Serious Speed, Budriguez, Rhythm To Spare, The Bowler and Land Of Plenty and dual winners Linton, Sylvaner, More Action and Blast The Glass.

The 2018 RA Lee Stakes was won by Land Of Plenty from Over Exposure and Lite’N In My Veins.