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Plenty of good horses are part of the Race History of the Carbine Club Stakes run at Flemington on Saturday.

Kermadec ended up a Doncaster winner while others have won Derbies and Cups. Will the 2020 Carbine Club Stakes (1600m) at Flemington on Saturday produce another?

2020 Carbine Club Stakes: Nominations

2020 CARBINE CLUB STAKES - RACE HISTORY AND BACKGROUND

The Carbine Club Stakes is a Group 3 race run under Set Weights and Penalty conditions for three year olds at Flemington conducted by the Victoria Racing Club.

The Carbine Club Stakes is run over 1600m. It was first run in 1971 and was won by Kiss Me Cait.

The race is named after the national organisation known as the Carbine Club. That Club was named after the champion galloper Carbine.

The Carbine Club Stakes is always run at the mile.

The Carbine Club Stakes was a Listed Race from inception until 1998 then it became a Group 3.

Not many fillies have won in recent years with the most recent being Permaiscuous in 2006. Only five have won it.

Bart Cummings often used the race as a guide to a horse's ability including Think Big winning it. Another grand horse and Melbourne Cup winner of his Saintly also won the race.

Levendi would win the Tulloch Stakes and ATC Australian Derby in the Autumn after winning the Carbine Club.

Many winners often head on to the Sandown Guineas a fortnight later.

The Carbine Club Stakes was worth $250,000 in 2020 reduced due to coronavirus cutbacks.

In 2019, a $1 million bonus was offered for the winner of the Carbine Club Stakes if any horse competed in the Group 2 Stutt Stakes, Group 3 Thousand Guineas Prelude or Group 3 Caulfield Guineas Prelude, followed by the Group 1 Thousand Guineas or the Group 1 Caulfield Guineas, and then wins the Carbine Club Stakes, they would be awarded the bonus. Dalasan won that bonus in its first year.

Notable winners of the Carbine Club Stakes include Comin' Through (2016), Kermadec (2014), Kidnapped (2009), Al Maher (2004), Over (1999), Saintly (1995), Submariner (1989), Warned (1986), Shankhill Lass (1985), Emancipation (1982) and Think Big (1973).

The 2019 Carbine Club Stakes was won by Dalasan from Brandenburg and Groundswell.