The New Zealand Oaks is a Group 1 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 run at set weights over a distance of 2400 metres (1½ miles) on the third Saturday of March every year at Trentham racecourse in Wellington

Wellington

Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...

, New Zealand.

With the consistent strength of New Zealand fillies in recent years, the race has an impressive list of winners, including the 2006 and 2007 Kelt Capital Stakes

Kelt Capital Stakes

The Kit Ormond Memorial Spring Classic is a Thoroughbred horse race run at Hastings Racecourse in Hawke's Bay and is New Zealand's richest weight-for-age horse race...

 winners in Legs and Princess Coup.

Recent winners

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Owner
2010	Keep The Peace	Opie Bosson	Shaune Ritchie	P E Bellingham, L R & L R D Dittman
2009	Jungle Rocket	James McDonald	Jeff McVean	C & Mrs L Betts, Mrs C & D Pleasance
2008	Boundless	Hayden Tinsley	Stephen McKee	P A Dallimore, T J McKee ONZM, P N Miller & Mrs C N Taylor
2007	Princess Coup Princess Coup Princess Coup is a New Zealand thoroughbred racehorse. She is most noted for twice winning the Kelt Capital Stakes, New Zealand's premier race, in 2007 and 2008. She also won the 2007 New Zealand Oaks and 2008 Stoneybridge Stakes, and ran third in the 2007 Caulfield Cup...	Opie Bosson	Mark Walker	Bromley Bloodstock Ltd & R A Coupland
2006	Legs	David Walker	Kevin Gray	Waikato Stud Ltd.
2005	Justa Tad	Vinny Colgan	Rudy Liefting	R P Liefting
2004	Wharite Princess	Bruce Herd	Lisa Latta	N M Cantwell et al.
2003	Bramble Rose	Opie Bosson	Mark Todd	Rivermonte Racing Syndicate
2002	Vapour Trail	Scott Seamer	Donna & Dean Logan	P J & P M Vela Ltd
2001	Tapildo	Mark Du Plessis	Sheila Laxon Sheila Laxon Sheila Laxon was the first female thoroughbred horse trainer to win the Australian cups double, the Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup, with her mare Ethereal in 2001...	I M & S T Taplin
2000	She's Country	Opie Bosson	Bruce Wallace	Whakanui Stud Ltd.