The Alister Clark Stakes is a MVRC

Moonee Valley Racing Club

The Moonee Valley Racing Club is located at the Moonee Valley racecourse on McPherson Street, Moonee Ponds . It is one of three racing clubs in the Melbourne metropolitan area; the others are the Victoria Racing Club and the Melbourne Racing Club...

 Group

Group races

Group races are the highest standard of Thoroughbred horseraces in Australia. The Australian Pattern Committee recommends to the Australian Racing Board which races shall be designated as Group races...

 2 Australian Thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

 horse race, for three year-old colts and geldings, at set weights, over a distance of 2040 metres. It is held annually at Moonee Valley Racecourse

Moonee Valley Racecourse

Moonee Valley Racecourse is a horse-racing track in Melbourne, Australia which hosts races for Thoroughbreds. Located six kilometers from the Melbourne CBD, it is the home of the Moonee Valley Racing Club...

 in Melbourne, Australia. Total prize money for the race is A$200,000.

The race is named for Alister Clark

Alister Clark

Alister Clark was an Australian rose breeder. -Biography:Alister Clark was the son of an immigrant Scottish tenant farmer who did well in Australia, leaving his family with several outback cattle stations and “Glenara,” a big property in a valley north of Melbourne. His children knew Europe well...

, the foundation chairman of the Moonee Valley Racing Club and master of Oaklands Hunt Club from 1901 to 1908. He was also the pre-eminent Australian rose breeder of the twentieth century.

Distance

• 1939-1947 race distance was one mile
• 1948-1963 race distance was 10 furlongs
• 1964-1972 race distance was one mile
• 1973-1986 race distance was 1600 metres
• 1987-1997 race distance was 2040 metres
• 1998-2010 race distance was 1600 metres
• 2011 race distance was 2040 metres

The winners

2011 - Domesky 2010 - Linton 2009 - Pre Eminence 2008 - Sound Journey 2007 - Casino Prince 2006 - Spinney 2005 - Lieutenant 2004 - Speedy King 2003 - Titanic Jack 2002 - Royal Code 2001 - Mr. Murphy 2000 - Pins 1999 - Dignity Dancer 1998 - Zonda 1997 - Flak Jacket 1996 - Scenic Royale 1995 - Blevic 1994 - Tristalove 1993 - Sarason 1992 - Naturalism Naturalism (horse) Naturalism Naturalism Naturalism (foaled 1988 in New Zealand was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse whose wins included three Group One races. Out of the mare Zephyr Souba, he was sired by the Kentucky-born Palace Music who also sired the great United States Hall Racing of Fame inductee, Cigar... 1991 - Durbridge 1990 - Zabeel Zabeel Zabeel was a New Zealand-bred Australian racehorse who has retired to stud and become a champion sire. He is a bay son of Sir Tristram from the Nureyev mare Lady Giselle... 1989 - Bar Landy 1988 - Flotilla 1987 - Vo Rogue Vo Rogue Vo Rogue is an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse. He was sired by American-bred Ivor Prince whose racing career ended from injury after just two starts. Ivor Prince was a son of the British champion Sir Ivor who won the 1968 2,000 Guineas and Epsom Derby. His American damsire, Dignitas, was a...

1986 - Lockley’s Tradition 1985 - King Phoenix 1984 - Penny Edition 1983 - My Evita 1982 - Fearless Pride 1981 - My Brown Jug 1980 - Bit Of A Skite 1979 - Family Of Man 1978 - race not held 1977 - Family Of Man / Surround 1976 - Leica Show 1975 - race not held 1974 - Toltrice 1973 - The Frigate 1972 - Upstairs 1971 - Tauto 1970 - Cyron 1969 - Begonia Belle 1968 - Heroic Stone 1967 - race not held 1966 - Bowl King 1965 - Sir Dane 1964 - Sometime 1963 - Sometime

1962 - Aquanita 1961 - Dhaulagiri 1960 - Stormy Passage 1959 - Wiggle 1958 - Baron Boissier 1957 - Mac’s Amber 1956 - Glitzern 1955 - St. Joel 1954 - Gallant Archer 1953 - Hydrogen 1952 - Step Aside 1951 - Chicquita 1950 - Comic Court Comic Court Comic Court was a most versatile post-war Australian bred Thoroughbred racehorse who set race records at distances of 6 furlongs and 2 miles... 1949 - Filipino 1948 - Money Moon 1947 - St. Fairy 1946 - Reperio 1945 - Simmering 1944 - Lilette 1943 - Athol Belle 1942 - Tranquil Star / Prince Ronald 1941 - Zonda 1940 - Pure Gold 1939 - Amiable