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Chairman's Stakes (SAJC)

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Inaugurated
  
1983

Sponsor
  
Quayclean (2015)

Surface
  
Turf

Race type
  
Thoroughbred

Distance
  
2,020 metres

Location
  
Morphettville Racecourse, South Australia

The Chairman's Stakes is a South Australian Jockey Club Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds, at set weights, over a distance of 2,020 metres at the Morphettville Racecourse, Adelaide, Australia in the Autumn Carnival.

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Race history

The race is considered a prep lead-up race for the Group 1 South Australian Derby which is usually run a couple of weeks after this race at the same track.

Four horses have won the Chairman's–SA Derby double:
Markham (1997), Mummify (2003), Rebel Raider (2009), Howard Be Thy Name (2016)

Race name

  • 1983–1992 - Chairman's Stakes
  • 1993–2003 - The Veuve Clicquot Stakes
  • 2004–2005 - Yalumba Plate
  • 2006–2008 - Chairman's Stakes
  • 2009–2010 - Chairman's TAB Stakes
  • 2011 - Chairman's Tattsbet Stakes
  • 2012 - Chairman's Stakes
  • 2013 - Chairman's Veolia Stakes
  • 2014 onwards - Chairman's Stakes

    • Race grade

  • 1982–2010 - Listed Race
  • 2011 onwards - Group 3

    • Race venue

  • 1983–1984 - Victoria Park
  • 1985 - Cheltenham Park
  • 1986–1990 - Victoria Park
  • 1991–1992 - Cheltenham Park
  • 1993–2001 - Morphettville
  • 2002 - Victoria Park
  • 2003 onwards - Morphettville

    • References

    Chairman's Stakes (SAJC) Wikipedia
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