Windsor Park Plate

Windsor Park Plate
Group I race
Location Hastings Racecourse
Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website Hawke's Bay Racing
Race information
Distance 1600m (1 mile)
Surface Turf
Track Left-handed
Qualification Three-year-olds and up
Weight Weight for Age
Purse NZ$200,000

The Windsor Park Plate is a New Zealand Thoroughbred horse race run at Hastings Racecourse in Hawke's Bay. The race is registered as the Horlicks Plate. It is run over a distance of 1600m in late September. It is the second of the three Group 1 weight-for-ages run in Hawke's Bay's Spring Carnival, after the Mudgway Stakes and before the Spring Classic. These three races make up the Triple Crown of the Hawke’s Bay Spring Racing Carnival.

A major supporting race run on the same day is the Gold Trail Stakes (currently the Windsor Park Stud and Hawke's Bay Breeders Gold Trail Stakes) for three-year-old fillies at Group 3 level. This race marks the beginning of the New Zealand Filly of the Year series.

The race was previously named the Stoney Bridge Stakes from 2004 to 2008.[1] In 2004 it was a Group 2 race, but from 2005 a Group 1 race. In 2003 the race had been called the Glenmorgan Generous Stakes and prior to that the Hawkes Bay Challenge Stakes for Group 3 until 2002 when it was changed to Group 2.

Recent Winners of the Windsor Park Plate and its predecessors

Year
Group Winner
2014 1 Pure Champion
2013 1 Xanadu
2012 1 Mufhasa
2011 1 Jimmy Choux
2010 1 Wall Street
2009 1 Daffodil
2008 1 Princess Coup
2007 1 Seachange
2006 1 Seachange
2005 1 Miss Potential
2004 2 Starcraft
2003 2 Irish Rover
2002 2 Hello Dolly
2001 3 Hello Dolly
2000 3 The Message

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