The VATC Caulfield Stakes is now a Melbourne Racing Club

Melbourne Racing Club

The Melbourne Racing Club is one of three metropolitan horse racing clubs in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It began life as the Victoria Amateur Turf Club in 1875 with Mr. E.C. Moore as the Club's first Secretary. The Dowling Forest Racecourse in Ballarat was the location for the first VATC race...

 Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

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Group One

Group One or Group 1 is the term used for the highest level of Thoroughbred and Standardbred stakes races in many countries. Group One races may be run under handicap conditions in Australia but in Europe weight-for-age conditions always apply. Races may be also restricted to age groups or a...

 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 run under weight-for-age conditions, for three-year-olds and upwards, at Caulfield Racecourse

Caulfield Racecourse

Caulfield Racecourse is one of Melbourne, Australia's best-known horse-racing tracks. Commonly known as "The Heath" by local racegoers, it is located eight kilometres from the Melbourne CBD, on the boundary of Caulfield and Caulfield East in Melbourne's south eastern suburbs...

. The race was previously known as the Caulfield Stakes but since 1997 it has been referred to as the Yalumba Stakes. It is now run over 2,000 metres (1¼ miles) and is held annually in October on Caulfield Guineas

Caulfield Guineas

The Caulfield Guineas is a Melbourne Racing Club Australian Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race held over 1600 metres at set weights for three-year-old horses, held annually on the second Saturday in October and forms part of the Spring Carnival at Caulfield Racecourse. Total prize money is A$1 million...

 day, the first day of the Caulfield Carnival.

In isolation, the Yalumba Stakes is not an important spring target for elite gallopers; it's prizemoney of $400,000 reflects this. However, as the Yalumba is held under roughly the same conditions in regards to distance and WFA as the G1 $3m WS Cox Plate, held a fortnight after the Yalumba, many Cox Plate contenders will use this race as their final hit out. As a result, elite gallopers are littered through the Yalumba winners roll - Rising Fast

Rising Fast

Rising Fast was an outstanding New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred racehorse. In 1954 he became the only horse in history to win the Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate races in the same season - the Spring Grand Slam - and since that time no Melbourne Cup winner has performed such a feat...

 (1954), Kingston Town

Kingston Town

Kingston Town was an outstanding Australian bred Thoroughbred racehorse who won a record three Cox Plates and 11 other Group One races in a career spanning from 1979 to 1982...

 (1981-2), Bonecrusher

Bonecrusher

Bonecrusher has several meanings:* Bone crusher, a machine used to crush animal bones* Bonecrusher , a retired New Zealand racehorse* Bonecrusher , a fictional character in the various Transformers universes...

 (1986), Might and Power

Might and Power

Might and Power was a New Zealand bred, Australian owned and trained Thoroughbred racehorse who was named Australian Horse of the Year in 1998 and 1999. As a four-year-old, Might And Power won the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups, and returned at five to become only the second horse in the history of...

 (1998), and Northerly

Northerly

Northerly, foaled in 1996, was arguably Australia's best middle distance Thoroughbred horse of the early 2000s. Northerly, trained by Western Australian harness racing legend Fred Kersley, won nine Group One races, including the Australian Cup twice, and the Cox Plate, regarded as the Weight for...

 (2001) all won this race before winning the Cox Plate at their next start.

Winners since 1999

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2011	Descarado	5	Nash Rawiller Nash Rawiller Nash Rawiller is a prominent Australian jockey who mainly rides at meetings in Sydney. He started his career riding in Melbourne but moved to Sydney to ride for prominent trainer Gai Waterhouse. His biggest win to date was riding Elvstroem to victory in the 2004 Caulfield Cup...	Gai Waterhouse Gai Waterhouse Gai Waterhouse is a Scottish-born, Australian resident horse trainer, businesswoman and a former actress-Career:...	Gurners Bloodstock Co	2.02.50
2010	So You Think So You Think So You Think is a New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred racehorse, now majority owned by Coolmore Stud of Ireland. So You Think came to prominence through winning the 2009 and 2010 Cox Plates, Australia's premier weight for age race. His second Cox Plate win came at just his tenth career start...	4	Steven Arnold	Bart Cummings Bart Cummings James Bartholomew 'Bart' Cummings, AM is one of the most successful Australian racehorse trainers. He is known as the Cups King, referring to the Melbourne Cup, as the he has won the 'race that stops a nation' a record 12 times....	Dato Tan Chin Nam	2.02.45
2009	Whobegotyou Whobegotyou Whobegotyou is a good Australian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse that has now won nine races, including the Group One Caulfield Guineas and Yalumba Stakes for $3,115,450 in prize money....	4	Damien Oliver	Mark A. Kavanagh	Laurence Eales	2.01:57
2008	Douro Valley	7	James Winks	Danny O'Brien	Rickey & Annette O'Brien et al.	2.04:37
2007	Maldivian	5	Michael Rodd	Mark A. Kavanagh	Paksian Racing Syndicate	2:01.97
2006	Casual Pass	6	Nash Rawiller Nash Rawiller Nash Rawiller is a prominent Australian jockey who mainly rides at meetings in Sydney. He started his career riding in Melbourne but moved to Sydney to ride for prominent trainer Gai Waterhouse. His biggest win to date was riding Elvstroem to victory in the 2004 Caulfield Cup...	Mathew J. Ellerton	Contract Racing Syndicate	2:02.69
2005	El Segundo El Segundo (horse) El Segundo is a Thoroughbred racehorse. He is a bay son of Pins from the mare Palos Verdes by Flying Spur.Foaled in 2001 at Ancroft Stud, Matamata, New Zealand he was sold as a yearling for $140,000 and has spent his entire racing career in Australia under the care of trainer Colin Little.Amongst...	4	Darren Gauci Darren Gauci Darren Gauci is an Australian jockey. Born in Melbourne on 26 December 1965, he won the Senior Victorian Jockeys Premiership in 1983-84, 1985-86, and 1990-91. He has come close to winning Australian racing's greatest prize on three occasions, with seconds in the Melbourne Cup on Chagemar , Super...	Colin W. Little	P. H. & C. G. Brown et al.	2:04.33
2004	Mummify Mummify Mummify was a popular Australian Thoroughbred racehorse that amassed in prize money and won five Group One races, including the 2003 Caulfield Cup and the Singapore Airlines International Cup....	5	Danny Nickolic	Lee Freedman Lee Freedman David Lee Freedman is a prominent Australian racehorse trainer. In partnership with brothers Anthony, Michael, and Richard, he has been a prolific winner of Australia's major races in past 20 years, with four Golden Slippers, four Caulfield Cups, two Cox Plates, and five Melbourne Cups,...	M. Pejic, T. J. & A. Torcasio et al.	2:03.24
2003	Lonhro Lonhro Lonhro was a champion Australian racehorse who is now standing at stud. Nicknamed "The Black Flash", Lonhro was from the first crop of the champion Octagonal out of the Group One-placed Shadea , who also produced the Group One winner Niello...	5	Darren Beadman	John Hawkes	Woodlands Stud	2:02.30
2002	Lonhro Lonhro Lonhro was a champion Australian racehorse who is now standing at stud. Nicknamed "The Black Flash", Lonhro was from the first crop of the champion Octagonal out of the Group One-placed Shadea , who also produced the Group One winner Niello...	4	Darren Beadman	John Hawkes	Woodlands Stud	2:00.60
2001	Northerly Northerly Northerly, foaled in 1996, was arguably Australia's best middle distance Thoroughbred horse of the early 2000s. Northerly, trained by Western Australian harness racing legend Fred Kersley, won nine Group One races, including the Australian Cup twice, and the Cox Plate, regarded as the Weight for...	5	Damien Oliver	Fred R. Kersley	Mrs J. A. Kersley et al.	2:02.58
2000	Sky Heights	5	Glen Boss Glen Boss Glen Boss is an Australian jockey, considered a champion, who is best known for riding Makybe Diva to victory in three consecutive Melbourne Cups - 2003, 2004, and 2005.-External links:***...	Colin Alderson	R. Legh, A. Calabro et al.	2:03.62
1999	Northern Drake	5	Grant Cooksley	Kenny Man	Domeland Pty Ltd. Syndicate	2:02.19

Earlier winners

* † Dead heat

Dead Heat

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for the win.