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Auraria Stakes

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WINGS OF SONG
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The Auraria Stakes is a Group 3 race for three-year-old fillies conducted by the South Australian Jockey Club at Morphettville racecourse in Adelaide.

First run in 1944 by the now defunct Port Adelaide Racing Club, the Auraria Stakes is named after the champion Adelaide-owned filly Auraria who won the South Australian Derby, Melbourne Cup, VRC Oaks and CB Fisher Plate in the spring of 1895.

The Auraria Stakes was originally run in the spring before it became a feature of the Adelaide autumn carnival in 1984 to serve as a lead-up to the classic Oaks races.

A set weights and penalties race for three-year-old fillies run over 1800m, the Auraria Stakes was first run at Morphettville in 1944 but was then conducted at Cheltenham racecourse, the home of the PARC, from 1945 until 1980.

From 1981 to 2008 the Auraria Stakes alternated between Adelaide's three racecourses. It was held at the now closed Victoria Park in the years 1981-1944 and again from 1993-1996, at Cheltenham from 1997-2001, 2003-2006 and 2008, and at Morphettville from 1985-1992, 2002 and 2007 and permanently now.

The Auraria Stakes has been run at Morphettville since 2009 and since 2011 was sponsored as the Schweppervescence Stakes. It has been Group 3 race since 1980.

With its venue changes the distance of the Auraria Stakes has varied many times between 1600m and 1850m.

The 2024 Auraria Stakes at Morphettville was for prizemoney of $150,000.

Winners of the Auraria Stakes have gone on to win the Australasian Oaks six times and the South Australian Oaks 12 times.

Notable winners of the Auraria Stakes include Gay Comedy, Wine Lover, Te Parae, Goliette, Rain Amore, Pushy, Sheraco, Miss Clipper, Shavano Miss, Gatherneaux, Miss Margaret, Episode, Grand Echezeaux, Dane Belltar, Moment In Time, Devil Moon, Crucial, Girl In Flight, Silent Sedition and Sopressa.

The 2024 Auraria Stakes was won by Wings Of Song from Quickster and Mollynickers.


Racing and Sports

Previous Auraria Stakes Winners

Date Horse Jockey WT Trainer BP
WINGS OF SONG (AUS) 3F
MENDELSSOHN (USA) - TORTONI (AUS) STRATEGIC (AUS)
J NOONAN 56.5 PATRICK PAYNE 13
JENNILALA (AUS) 3F
SHALAA (IRE) - ROSARIAN (AUS) MANHATTAN RAIN (AUS)
DECLAN BATES 55.0 C MAHER & D EUSTACE 12
MY WHISPER (AUS) 3F
FRANKEL (GB) - HERSIGH (GB) POET'S VOICE (GB)
WILL PRICE 55.0 P & P SNOWDEN 11
TYCHE GODDESS (AUS) 3F
TEOFILO (IRE) - CORNELIA MARIE (AUS) RESET (AUS)
THOMAS STOCKDALE 55.0 TRENT BUSUTTIN & NATALIE YOUNG 1
SILENT SOVEREIGN (AUS) 3F
DALAKHANI (IRE) - SILENT SURROUND (AUS) FACE VALUE (AUS)
BAREND VORSTER 55.0 T & C MCEVOY 4
MIRETTE (AUS) 3F
UNENCUMBERED (AUS) - LADY ZABEEL (NZ) ZABEEL (NZ)
DECLAN BATES 54.0 ARCHIE ALEXANDER 7
SOPRESSA (AUS) 3F
SO YOU THINK (NZ) - HIDDEN STRINGS (AUS) WEASEL CLAUSE (AUS)
HARRY COFFEY 54.0 DARREN WEIR 1
KENEDNA (AUS) 3F
NOT A SINGLE DOUBT (AUS) - MISS DODWELL (AUS) FALBRAV (IRE)
J ALLEN 56.0 DARREN WEIR 14
SILENT SEDITION (AUS) 3F
WAR CHANT (USA) - FIORENTINA (AUS) DUBAI DESTINATION (USA)
CRAIG WILLIAMS 55.0 ANDREW NOBLET 11
FITOCRACY (AUS) 3F
DENMAN (AUS) - REINE DE JEU (AUS) ANABAA (USA)
TODD PANNELL 54.0 JON O'CONNOR 13
GIRL IN FLIGHT (AUS) 3F
COMMANDS (AUS) - ROSSIYA (FR) MACHIAVELLIAN (USA)
M ALLEN 55.5 ROBBIE GRIFFITHS 2
GLOBAL BALANCE (AUS) 3F
REDOUTE'S CHOICE (AUS) - BALANCE OF NATURE (USA) STORM CAT (USA)
M NEILSON 57.0 D A HAYES 15
CRUCIAL (AUS) 3F
NADEEM (AUS) - DAWN ATTACK (IRE) FANTASTIC LIGHT (USA)
V DURIC 54.5 ANTHONY FREEDMAN 16
SHYLIGHT (AUS) 3F
LAGO DELIGHT (AUS) - BE MY PERSON (AUS) PERSONAL FLAG (USA)
G BOSS 53.0 DAVID BRIDEOAKE 1
FAIRY OAK (NZ) 3F
HIGH CHAPARRAL (IRE) - QUEEN CAELIA (NZ) SIR TRISTRAM (IRE)
L NOLEN 53.0 PETER G MOODY 5
PRINCESS PULSE (NZ) 3F
KING OF KINGS (IRE) - SURPRIZE OFFER (NZ) VICE REGAL (NZ)
G BOSS 53.0 MICHAEL MORONEY 2
MOMENT IN TIME (AUS) 3F
ARCHWAY (IRE) - CONCLUDING (AUS) KENNY'S BEST PAL (AUS)
C LEVER 53.5 MICK HUXTABLE 9
DEVIL MOON (AUS) 3F
KING CUGAT (USA) - CLASSY BABE (NZ) MASTERCLASS (USA)
M NEILSON 55.0 MARK KAVANAGH 11
PURDE (NZ) 3F
BAHHARE (USA) - DUPRE (NZ) MASTERCLASS (USA)
P GATT 53.0 D A HAYES 11
OVERCLOCK (AUS) 3F
XAAR (GB) - WATCH (AUS) MARAUDING (NZ)
C L BRYANT 53.0 STEPHEN THEODORE 2
DANE BELLTAR (AUS) 3F
DANEWIN (AUS) - AMEERAT-BLAADI (AUS) KENMARE (FR)
C LINDOP 53.0 LEON MACDONALD 2
YVONNE (AUS) 3F
LAST TYCOON (IRE) - THE COLLABORATOR (AUS) MILITARY PLUME (NZ)
J HOLDER 54.5 TONY MCEVOY 2
CLOTHILDE (AUS) 3F
DANEHILL (USA) - SEIKA (AUS) CAN'T FIGHT FATE (AUS)
D GAUCI 53.0 JOHN HAWKES 4
SHELBOURNE LASS (AUS) 3F
BROCCO (USA) - CATHERINE MARY (NZ) FAMOUS STAR (GB)
D GAUCI 54.5 NIGEL BLACKISTON 16
GRAND ECHEZEAUX (NZ) 3F
ZABEEL (NZ) - RICHEBOURG (NZ) VICE REGAL (NZ)
CRAIG WILLIAMS 53.0 D L FREEDMAN 5

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