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How Now Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1999

Sponsor
  
Ladbrokes (2016)

Surface
  
Turf

Race type
  
Thoroughbred

Distance
  
1,200 metres

Location
  
Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia

The Ladbrokes Odds Boost Stakes, registered as the How Now Stakes Melbourne Racing Club Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race held under set weights with penalties conditions, for mares aged four years old and upwards, over a distance of 1200 metres in late September. It is held at Caulfield Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia.

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Race History

The registered race is named after the brilliant filly How Now, who won the 1976 Underwood Stakes. This race is held on the same card as the Underwood Stakes.

Race distance

From 1999 onwards held over 1200m

Race grade

  • 1999–2004 - Listed Race
  • 2005 onwards - Group 3.
  • Race name

  • 1999 - Cranbourne Daihatsu Stakes
  • 2000–2001 - Dairy Farmers Milk Stakes
  • 2002 - Dubai Convention Bureau Stakes
  • 2003–2004 - Emirates Racing Association Stakes
  • 2005 - Dubai International Stakes
  • 2006 - How Now Stakes
  • 2007 - South Yarra Stakes
  • 2008–2011 - How Now Stakes
  • 2012–2014 - Sportingbet Sprint Series Heat 2 Stakes
  • 2015 - William Hill Sprint Series Heat 2 Stakes
  • 2016 - Ladbrokes Odds Boost Stakes
  • References

    How Now Stakes Wikipedia