The Flight Stakes is an AJC

Australian Jockey Club

The Australian Jockey Club was founded in January 1842. It morphed from the former Australian Racing Committee set up in May 1840 to set the standards for racing in the colony...

 Group 1

Group One

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 Australia

Australia

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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...

 horse race for three year old fillies, at set weights, run over a distance of 1600 metres at Randwick Racecourse

Randwick Racecourse

Royal Randwick Racecourse is a racecourse for horseracing in the Eastern Suburbs in Sydney, New South Wales. Randwick Racecourse, is operated by the Australian Jockey Club and known to many Sydney racegoers as headquarters...

, Sydney

Sydney

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 in October. Total prize money for the race is A$400,000.

The race is named for champion mare

Mare

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 Flight

Flight (horse)

Flight was an Australian Thoroughbred racemare that was the highest stakes winning mare in Australasia. Her courageous efforts made her a crowd favourite during the post World War II era and she had victories over some of the great horses of the time including Shannon, Bernborough, Royal Gem and...

, the winner of the Cox Plate

Cox Plate

The W.S. Cox Plate is an Australian Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race held in Melbourne every October by the Moonee Valley Racing Club to honour W.S. Cox, the club's founder. For three-year-olds and over, the race is considered to be the Weight for Age championship of Australasia...

 in 1945 and 1946.

Race History

1947 - 1978 run as a Principle Race.

1979 - 1984 run as a Group 2

Group 2 (racing)

The Group 2 racing class referred to regulations for cars in touring car racing and rallying, as regulated by the FIA. Group 2 was replaced by Group A in 1982....

 race.

The winners

• 2011 - Streama
• 2010 - Secret Admirer
• 2009 - More Joyous
• 2008 - Samantha Miss
  Samantha Miss
  Samantha Miss was an Australian Thoroughbred racemare that won three Group One races for earnings of A$1,750,760 and was later sold as broodmare for a record $3.85 million....
  
  
• 2007 - no race due to Equine Influenza
  2007 Australian equine influenza outbreak
  An outbreak of equine influenza in Australia was confirmed by the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries on 24 August 2007 in Sydney. Also known as "horse flu" and "A1 influenza", the rapid outbreak was of the Influenza A virus strain of subtype H3N8...
  
  
• 2006 - Cheeky Choice
• 2005 - Fashions Afield
• 2004 - Lotteria
• 2003 - Unearthly
• 2002 - Royal Purler
• 2001 - Ha Ha
• 2000 - Unworldly
• 1999 - Danglissa
• 1998 - Sunline
  Sunline
  Sunline was a New Zealand bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was the world's highest earning racemare of her time, competing on 48 occasions for 32 wins, 9 seconds and 3 thirds to earn A$11,351,607. She won races in three different countries, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. She won successive...
  
  
• 1997 - Only A Lady
• 1996 - Dashing Eagle / Assertive Lass (dead heat)
• 1995 - Pontal Lass
• 1994 - Danarani
• 1993 - Angst
• 1992 - Slight Chance
• 1991 - Electrique
• 1990 - Triscay
• 1989 - A Little Kiss

• 1988 - Research
• 1987 - Judyann
• 1986 - Bounding Away
• 1985 - Tingo Tango
• 1984 - Goleen
• 1983 - La Caissiere
• 1982 - Gelsomino
• 1981 - Allez Show
• 1980 - Fiancee
• 1979 - Snowing
• 1978 - Jubilee Walk
• 1977 - Sun Sally
• 1976 - Apollua
• 1975 - Gloomy Isle
• 1974 - Cap D'Antibes
• 1973 - Better Comment
• 1972 - Siduri
• 1971 - Better Gleam
• 1970 - Tropic Jewel
• 1969 - Natal Lass
• 1968 - Flying Fable

• 1967 - Flying Gauntlet
• 1966 - Candy Floss
• 1965 - Fawnia
• 1964 - Reveille
• 1963 - Slepsie
• 1962 - Jan's Image
• 1961 - Hoa Hine
• 1960 - Wenona Girl
• 1959 - Weeamera
• 1958 - Straightlaced
• 1957 - Amneris
• 1956 - French Fable
• 1955 - Brimses
• 1954 - Travel Free
• 1953 - Redeswood
• 1952 - Bush Chapel
• 1951 - Blue's Sister
• 1950 - Putoko
• 1949 - Mona's Choice
• 1948 - Wattle
• 1947 - Nizam's Ring