Expressway Stakes
Encyclopedia
The Expressway Stakes is a Group 2
Australia
n Thoroughbred
open horse race for three-year-olds and over at Weight for Age
run over a distance of 1200 metres at Rosehill Racecourse, Sydney
in February. Prizemoney was A$200,000 in 2010.
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...
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...
n 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...
open horse race for three-year-olds and over at Weight for Age
Weight for Age
Weight for Age is a term in Thoroughbred horse racing which is one of the conditions for a race. It means that a horse will carry a set weight in accordance with the Weight for Age Scale. This weight varies depending on the horse’s age, its sex, the race distance and the month of the year...
run over a distance of 1200 metres at Rosehill Racecourse, Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
in February. Prizemoney was A$200,000 in 2010.
Past winners
- 2011 Centennial Park
- 2010 Rangirangdoo
- 2009 Burdekin Blues
- 2008 Paratroopers
- 2007 Mentality
- 2006 Court's In Session
- 2005 Court's In Session
- 2004 Sportsman
- 2003 LonhroLonhroLonhro 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...
- 2002 Ateates
- 2001 Tie The KnotTie the KnotTie the Knot was an Australian bred Thoroughbred racehorse, who won 13 Group One races and in 1999-2000 he was voted Australian Champion Stayer.-Breeding:...
- 2000 Mr. Innocent
- 1999 Kidman's Cove
- 1998 Hockney
- 1997 Cangronde
- 1996 SaintlySaintlySaintly was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who was named Australia's champion racehorse in 1997. A giant chestnut gelding by Sky Chase out of All Grace , he was bred by his trainer, Bart Cummings, who owned him in partnership with a Malaysian businessman, Dato Tan Chin Nam.Saintly gained...
- 1995 Moss Rocket
- 1994 Soho Square
- 1993 Let's Hurry
- 1992 Joanne
- 1991 Potrero
- 1990 not held
- 1989 Groucho
- 1988 At Sea
- 1987 Diamond Shower
- 1986 Avon Angel
- 1985 Royal Troubador
- 1984 Sir Dapper
- 1983 Sheraco
- 1982 Trench Digger
- 1981 Goreham
- 1980 Kingston TownKingston TownKingston 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...
- 1979 Joy Love
- 1978 Luskin Star
- 1977 Red Ruffian
- 1976 Avellino
- 1975 Zephyr Bay
- 1974 I'm Scarlet