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Black Opal Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1973

Sponsor
  
Mercedes-Benz (2017)

Surface
  
Turf

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - flat

Distance
  
1,200 metres

Location
  
Canberra Racecourse, Canberra, Australia

The Black Opal Stakes is a Canberra Racing Club Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race, for two-year-olds, at set weights, over a distance of 1200 metres, held annually at Canberra Racecourse in Canberra, Australia in March. Total prize money for the race is A$300,000.

Contents

Race grade

  • 1975–1978 - Principal Race
  • 1979–1986 - Group 3
  • 1987–1998 - Group 2
  • 1999–2005 - Group 3
  • 2006–2014 - Listed Race
  • 2015 - Group 3

    • Race records

    Catbird (1999) is the only two-year-old to have taken out the Black Opal Stakes & Golden Slipper Stakes double since its inception.
    Race record is held by St Covet in 1994 with the time of 1.09.6.

    References

    Black Opal Stakes Wikipedia
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