Auraria Stakes
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History
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.
Previous Auraria Stakes Winners
Date | Horse | Jockey | WT | Trainer | BP |
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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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