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Birthday Card Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1986

Distance
  
1,200 metres

Sponsor
  
TAB (2016)

Surface
  
Turf

Location
  
Rosehill Gardens Racecourse

Race type
  
Thoroughbred – Flat racing

The Birthday Card Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group 3 Thoroughbred quality handicap horse race, for fillies and mares aged three years old and upwards, over a distance of 1200 metres, held at Rosehill Racecourse in Sydney, Australia in March. Total prize money for the race is A$150,000.

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Race history

The race is named in honour of Birthday Card winner of the 1962 Golden Slipper Stakes.

Race name

  • 1986–1991 - Birthday Card Quality Handicap
  • 1992 - Clyde Kennedy Quality
  • 1993–1998 - Birthday Card Quality Handicap
  • 1999 - Birthday Card Stakes
  • 2000–2004 - Birthday Card Quality Handicap
  • 2005 - Birthday Card Stakes
  • 2006 - Allied Express Stakes
  • 2007–2008 - Cleanevent Stakes
  • 2009 onwards - Birthday Card Stakes
  • Race venue

  • 1986–1996 - Canterbury
  • 1997–1999 - Rosehill
  • 2000–2002 - Canterbury
  • 2003 onwards - Rosehill
  • Race distance

  • 1986–1987 - 1280 metres
  • 1987–1993 - 1100 metres
  • 1994 onwards - 1200 meters
  • Race grade

  • 1986–2005 - Listed race
  • 2006 onwards - Group 3
  • References

    Birthday Card Stakes Wikipedia