The Gloaming Stakes is a Sydney Turf Club

Sydney Turf Club

The Sydney Turf Club was founded in 1943 and is the youngest of Australia's Principal Race Clubs. It was formed following an Act passed by the New South Wales parliament called the Sydney Turf Club Act...

 Group 3

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

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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 olds, at set weights, over a distance of 1800 metres. It is held annually at Rosehill Racecourse in 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 September. Total prize money for the race is A$200,000.

The race is named for Gloaming

Gloaming (horse)

Gloaming was an outstanding Thoroughbred racehorse, owned, trained, and based in New Zealand. He set many records which includes the Australasian record of 19 successive wins, many in Principal Races. Gloaming was unusual that he was a champion who won many major races in both Australia and New...

 who jointly holds the Australasian record (with Desert Gold

Desert Gold

Desert Gold was a famous and successful New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse who raced at the time of World War I. She raced in Australia and New Zealand, winning 36 races, including a still-standing record of 19 in succession ....

) of 19 successive wins. Gloaming had 67 race starts, won 57 and was second 9 times.

The winners

• 2011 Strike The Stars
• 2010 Retrieve
• 2009 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...
  
  
• 2008 Predatory Pricer
• 2007 Race not run
• 2006 All Black Gold
• 2005 Pendragon
• 2004 Al Maher
• 2003 Tsuimai
• 2002 Maskerado
• 2001 Courvoisier
• 2000 Go Bint
• 1999 Fairway
• 1998 Arena
• 1997 Tie The Knot
  Tie the Knot
  Tie 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:...
  
  
• 1996 Magic Of Sydney
• 1995 Classy Fella
• 1994 Brave Warrior
• 1993 Constant Flight
• 1992 Air Seattle
• 1991 Big Dreams
• 1990 Lord Revenir
• 1989 Stargazer
• 1988 Run Straight Run
• 1987 Sky Chase
• 1986 Drought
• 1985 Handy Proverb