The Light Fingers Stakes is a Group 2

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...

 horse race, for three-year-old fillies, over a distance of 1200 metres.It is held 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...

 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...

 every February.

The race is named in honour of the 1965 Melbourne Cup

Melbourne Cup

The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major Thoroughbred horse race. Marketed as "the race that stops a nation", it is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over. It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races...

 winner Light Fingers

Light Fingers

Light Fingers was a New Zealand bred thoroughbred racehorse who won the Melbourne Cup in 1965.The lightly built chestnut was by the highly successful sire of stayers, Le Filou, from Cuddlesome by Red Mars , by Hyperion...

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Race History

1983 onwards held over 1200 m.

1983–1985 was a Listed Race

1986 was a Group 2

1987–1990 was a Group 3

1991 onwards Group 2

The winners

• 2011 - Obsequious
• 2010 - More Joyous
• 2009 - Rock Me Baby
• 2008 - Forensics
• 2007 - Gold Edition
• 2006 - Street Smart
• 2005 - Trezevant
• 2004 - Sharp
• 2003 - Only Glory
• 2002 - Ancient Song
• 2001 - Lady Mulan
• 2000 - Camena
• 1999 - Rubicall
• 1998 - Staging
• 1997 - Assertive Lass
• 1996 - Peruzzi

• 1995 - Flight To Fantasy
• 1994 - Gem Of The West
• 1993 - Skating
• 1992 - Office
• 1991 - Whisked
• 1990 - Joanne
• 1989 - Paris Miss
• 1988 - Here's The Point
• 1987 - Magic Flute
• 1986 - Shinakima
• 1985 - Rivage
• 1984 - Sabre Dancer
• 1983 - Emancipation
  Emancipation (horse)
  Emancipation was a champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse. By Bletchingly, Emancipation was a grey, like her dam, Ammo Girl, and her damsire, Gunsynd...