Toy Show Quality Handicap
Toy Show Quality Handicap | |
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Group 3 race | |
Location | Randwick Racecourse |
Inaugurated | 1995 |
Race type | Thoroughbred |
Race information | |
Distance | 1,300 metres |
Surface | Turf |
Track | Right-handed |
Qualification |
3-year-olds and older fillies and mares |
Weight | Quality handicap |
Purse | $125,000 (2013) |
The Toy Show Quality Handicap is an Australian Turf Club Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old and older fillies and mares, run as a quality handicap over a distance of 1300 metres at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney in August.[1] Total prize money for the race is A$125,000.
Race history
The race is named in honour of the champion filly Toy Show, who won the 1975 Golden Slipper Stakes,[2] The Thousand Guineas and 1976 Newmarket Handicap.
Race distance
- 1995–1999 – 1400 metres
- 2000–2001 – 1300 metres
- 2002–2010 – 1400 metres
- 2011 onwards - 1300 metres
Race grade
- 1995–2012 - Listed race
- 2013 onwards - Group 3
Race venue
- 1995–1999 - Warwick Farm Racecourse
- 2000 - Canterbury Park Racecourse
- 2001–2004 - Warwick Farm Racecourse
- 2005–2006 - Randwick Racecourse
- 2008 - Warwick Farm Racecourse
- 2009 - Randwick Racecourse
- 2010–2013 - Warwick Farm Racecourse
- 2014 - Randwick Racecourse
Past winners
- 2014 - My Sabeel[3]
- 2013 - Hidden Kisses[4]
- 2012 - Dystopia[5]
- 2011 - Red Tracer[6]
- 2010 - Illuminates[7]
- 2009 - Moti[8]
- 2008 - Kishkat[9]
- 2007 - †race not held
- 2006 - Walk Alone[10]
- 2005 - Nevis[11]
- 2004 - Catreign[12]
- 2003 - Arrabeea[13]
- 2002 - Youhadyourwarning[14]
- 2001 - Winona[15]
- 2000 - Chiming Lass[16]
- 1999 - Fairytales[17]
- 1998 - Sash[18]
- 1997 - Captivating[19]
- 1996 - Macrosa[20]
- 1995 - Joie Denise[21]
† Not held because of outbreak of equine influenza[22]
See also
References
- ↑ "Winners and Past Results for the Toy Show Quality Handicap". Pro Group Racing Australia. 2012. Retrieved 19 August 2013.
- ↑ Lillye, Bert (16 March 1975). "TOY SHOW BEATS ALL HANDICAPS". The Sydney Morning Herald (Google News Archive (Digitize)). p. 33 (column 4–7). Retrieved 19 August 2013.
- ↑ 2014 result
- ↑ 2013 result
- ↑ 2012 result
- ↑ 2011 result
- ↑ 2010 result
- ↑ 2009 result
- ↑ 2008 result
- ↑ 2006 result
- ↑ 2005 result
- ↑ 2004 result
- ↑ 2003 result
- ↑ 2002 result
- ↑ 2001 result
- ↑ 2000 result
- ↑ 1999 result
- ↑ 1998 result
- ↑ 1997 result
- ↑ 1996 result
- ↑ 1995 result
- ↑ "Carnival may be delayed". The Age, Melbourne. 25 August 2007. Retrieved 23 August 2013.