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Quezette Stakes

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Location
  
Caulfield Racecourse

Race type
  
Thoroughbred

Distance
  
1,100 metres

Inaugurated
  
1994 (Listed)

Sponsor
  
Winslow Group (2016)

Surface
  
Turf

The Winslow Group Stakes, registered as the Quezette Stakes is a Melbourne Racing Club Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old fillies held under set weights with penalties conditions, over a distance of 1100 metres, held at Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia annually in August. Total prizemoney for the race is A$150,000.

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Race name

The race was first held in 1992 is in honour of the 1967 Merson Cooper Stakes (Listed Race) winner Quezette, who won seven races in her two-year-old season and was placed in the Group 1 Crown Oaks as a three-year-old. Quezette established the Australian record for five furlongs in 56.4 seconds. In 2016 the event was run as the Winslow Group Stakes.

Race distance

  • 1992–2005 - 1200 metres
  • 2006 onwards - 1100 metres

    • Race grade

  • 1994–2012 - Listed race
  • 2013 - Group 3 status

    • Race venue

  • 1992–1996 - Sandown Park Racecourse
  • 1997 - Caulfield Racecourse
  • 1998–2001 - Sandown Park Racecourse
  • 2002 onwards - Caulfield Racecourse

    • References

    Quezette Stakes Wikipedia
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