Winning Edge Stakes

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The Winning Edge Presentations Stakes is a Group 2 Australian thoroughbred horse race held under open handicap conditions, for horses aged 3 years old and upwards, over a distance of 2400m. It is held at Caulfield Racecourse in Melbourne.

For a majority of it’s long history the race has been known as the ‘Herbert Power Handicap’.

[edit] Race History

1898 - 1899 held over 8 furlongs (approx. 1600m)
1900 - 1919 held over 11 furlongs (approx. 2200m)
1920 - 1971 held over 12 furlongs (approx. 2400m)
1972 onwards held over 2400m.

1898 – 1978 was a Principal Race
1979 – 1980 was a Group 3
1981 onwards Group 2.

1898 - 1919 the race was known as the ‘Eclipse (11f) Stakes’
1920 - 1992 the race was known as the ‘Herbert Power Handicap’
1993 - 1996 the race was known as the ‘Quick-Eze Stakes’
1997 the race was known as the ‘Perrier Mineral Water Stakes’
1998 - 1999 the race was known as the ‘Perrier Stakes’
2000 the race was known as the ‘Herbert Power Stakes’
2001 onwards the race has been called the ‘Winning Edge Presentations Stakes’.