Hollylodge Classic
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The Hollylodge Classic is a Group 2
Australian Thoroughbred
horse race for fillies aged three years old, at set weight conditions, over a distance of 1600 metres.
It is held at Moonee Valley Racecourse
in Melbourne
.
Group races
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Australian Thoroughbred
Thoroughbred
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horse race for fillies aged three years old, at set weight conditions, over a distance of 1600 metres.
It is held 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
Melbourne
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.
Distance
- 1998 - 2004 held over 2040m
- 2005 held over 1600m
- 2006 onwards held over 1500m
- 2010 held over 1600m
Name
- 1998 - 2004 the race was known as the ‘Moonee Valley Oaks’
- 2005 the race was known as the ‘Woodstock Mile’
- 2006 the race was known as the ‘Woodstock Classic’
- 2007 onwards the race has been called ‘Hollylodge Classic’.
The winners
- 2011 - Lights Of Heaven
- 2010 - My Emotion
- 2009 - Romneya
- 2008 - Absolut Glam
- 2007 - Anamato
- 2006 - Pure Harmony
- 2005 - Dizelle
- 2004 - Special Harmony
- 2003 - Ribe
- 2002 - Elegant Fashion
- 2001 - Dandify
- 2000 - Hill of Grace
- 1999 - SunlineSunlineSunline 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...
- 1998 - Kensington Palace / Champagne (dead heat)