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Kindergarten Stakes

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Location
  
Randwick Racecourse

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - flat

Distance
  
1,100 metres

Inaugurated
  
1987

Sponsor
  
Widden (2016)

Surface
  
Turf

The Kindergarten Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group 3 Australian Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged two years old, at set weights, over a distance of 1100 metres at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia in the autumn during the ATC Championships series.

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Race history

Race was inaugurated in 1987.

It was held annually in March prior to the Golden Slipper Stakes but in 2012 was moved to April as part of the Australian Derby Day race card at Randwick.

The following thoroughbreds have captured the Kindergarten Stakes – Golden Slippers double:
Star Watch (1988), Bint Marscay (1993), Guineas (1997), Belle Du Jour (2000) and Forensics (2007)

Race grade

  • 1989–1997 - Listed Race
  • 1998 onwards - Group 3
  • Race venue

  • 1987–1994 - Warwick Farm
  • 1995 - Randwick
  • 1996–2000 - Warwick Farm
  • 2001 - Randwick
  • 2002–2007 - Warwick Farm
  • 2008–2009 - Randwick
  • 2010 - Warwick Farm
  • 2011 onwards - Randwick
  • References

    Kindergarten Stakes Wikipedia