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Quality mares have won the Summoned Stakes run at Sandown on Saturday.

Silent Sedition had very good credentials at the end of her career. Is there another top grade performer to be elevated in the 2019 Summoned Stakes (1500m) at Sandown on Saturday?

2019 Summoned Stakes: Nominations

2019 SUMMONED STAKES - RACE HISTORY AND BACKGROUND

The Summoned Stakes is a Group 3 race run under Set Weights and Penalty conditions for four years and up mares at Sandown conducted by the Melbourne Racing Club.

The Summoned Stakes is run over 1500m. It was first run in 1995 and was won by Tolanda.

The race is named after a grand producing mare who had the likes of Zeditave, Alannon and Pampas Fire.

All runnings bar the one held at Caulfield were over the 1500m.

The Summoned Stakes was a Listed Race up to 2013 when it became a Group 3.

Several recent winners either won G1s or ran top races against the best of horses.

2018 winner I'm A Princess is the full sister to 5xGroup 1 winner Shoot Out.

They ran the race at Caulfield in 2013.

The Summoned Stakes is worth $160,000 in 2019.

Notable winners of the Summoned Stakes include Silent Sedition (2016), Solicit (2015), Politeness (2014), Dane Julia (2009), It's Platonic (2000), Rose Of Dane (1999), Vonanne (1997) and Tolanda (1995).

The 2018 Summoned Stakes was won by I'm A Princess from Zumbelina and Aeecee Tong De.