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Shaftsbury Avenue Handicap

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Location
  
Flemington Racecourse

Race type
  
Thoroughbred

Qualification
  
Maidens ineligible

Distance
  
1,400 m

Inaugurated
  
2001 (Listed)

Surface
  
Turf

Weight
  
Open handicap

Purse
  
150,000 USD (2017)

Sponsor
  

The TAB Rewards Stakes, registered as the Shaftsbury Avenue Handicap is a Victoria Racing Club Group 3 Thoroughbred open handicap horse race, over a distance of 1400 metres held annually at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne during the VRC Autumn Racing Carnival in March. Total prize money for the race is A$150,000.

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Race history

The registered race is named after Shaftsbury Avenue who won the 1991 VRC Newmarket Handicap, 1991 Lightning Stakes.

Race name

  • 2001–2004 - PFD Food Services Stakes
  • 2005–2007 - Chubb Stakes
  • 2008–2009 - Melbourne Food & Wine Plate
  • 2010 - Mrs Mac's Beef Pie Handicap
  • 2011 - TAB 50th Birthday Stakes
  • 2012 - VIC TAB Guaranteed $2m Quaddie Stakes
  • 2013 - TAB Stakes
  • 2014 onwards - TAB Rewards Stakes

    • Race grade

  • 2001–2007 - Listed Race
  • 2008–2010 - Open Handicap (unlisted)
  • 2011–2013 - Listed Race
  • 2014 onwards - Group 3

    • Race venue

  • The race was run at Caulfield Racecourse in 2007 due to reconstruction of the Flemington racetrack.

    • References

    Shaftsbury Avenue Handicap Wikipedia
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