- Date: Saturday October 1, 2011
- Racecourse: Randwick
- Race Distance: 1,600m
- Conditions: 3YO Fillies Set Weight
- Prize Money: $400,000
2012 Flight Stakes News
Guy Walter wins third Oaks with Streama
Trainer Guy Walter secured his third Group 1 $550,000 Patinack Farm Australian Oaks (2400m) at Randwick today with his outstanding filly Streama.
Streama was sent out the short priced favourite at $1.40 and it wasn’t until the final fifty metres that her followers were certain of collecting their money.
Walter was relieved to see Streama…
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The 2011 Flight Stakes is a Group 1 race that is held annually at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney in October. The Flight Stakes is run under set-weight conditions and is open to three-year-old fillies only. Run as part of the Sydney Spring Racing Carnival, the Flight Stakes is run over a distance of 1,600 metres and is worth $400,000 in prize money. The Flight Stakes takes place on Epsom Handicap Day along with the Group 1 Epsom Handicap, The Metropolitan and the Spring Champion Stakes.
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The first Flight Stakes was run back in 1947 when it was won by a horse named Nizam’s Ring. The race is named after a champion mare named Flight who won the Cox Plate in both 1945 and 1946. The Flight Stakes first began as a Principal race and was run under this status from 1947 to 1978. The Flight Stakes was elevated to Group 2 status in 1979 before being granted its official Group 1 status in 1984. The Flight Stakes experienced a dead heat in 1996, when it was won by both Dash Eagle and Assertive Lass. The race was not run in 2007 due to an outbreak of Equine Influenza in Australia.
Fillies that compete in the Flight Stakes often come via the Group 2 Furious Stakes or the Group 2 Tea Rose Stakes. Sunline (1998), Danglissa (1999), Unworldly (2000) and Samantha Miss (2008) have all claimed the Flight Stakes, Furious Stakes and Tea Rose Stakes treble. Other notable winners of the Flight Stakes throughout the years include Wenona Girl (1960), Research (1988), Triscay (1990), Ha Ha (2001), Lotteria (2004), Fashions Afield (2005) and More Joyous (2009).
Flight Stakes Past Winners & Results
Below you will find a list of winners and results for the Flight Stakes since 2000.
| Year | Results | Winning Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1 Secret Admirer | 2 More Strawberries | 3 Parables | 1:34.6 |
| 2009 | 1 More Joyous | 2 Sister Madly | 3 Hurtle Myrtle | 1:40.0 |
| 2008 | 1 Samantha Miss | 2 Portillo | 3 Kamillsy | 1:38.4 |
| 2007 | Race Not Run | |||
| 2006 | 1 Cheeky Choice | 2 My Lady’s Chamber | 3 Fleur Royale | 1:36.0 |
| 2005 | 1 Fashions Afield | 2 Beauty Watch | 3 Mnemosyne | 1:37.2 |
| 2004 | 1 Lotteria | 2 Cincinnati Gal | 3 Covertly | 1:37.6 |
| 2003 | 1 Unearthly | 2 Santissima | 3 Classy Dane | 1:36.6 |
| 2002 | 1 Royal Purler | 2 Victory Vein | 3 Private Steer | 1:37.4 |
| 2001 | 1 Ha Ha | 2 Moonflute | 3 Hosannah | 1:36.2 |
| 2000 | 1 Unworldly | 2 Picholine | 3 Lady Mulan | 1:34.5 |
