The Rough Habit Plate is a 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

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 horses aged three years old, over a distance of 2,020 metres.

It is held annually at Doomben Racecourse

Doomben Racecourse

Doomben Racecourse is a horse racing venue in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is located in the suburb of Ascot, 7 kilometres north of the Brisbane central business district....

 in Brisbane

Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

, Queensland

Queensland

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 in May. It was named in honour of Rough Habit

Rough Habit

Rough Habit was a New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who won 11 Group One races on both sides of the Tasman, and won New Zealand's Horse of the Year Award in 1992 and 1995....

, a New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who won 11 Group One

Group One

Group One or Group 1 is the term used for the highest level of Thoroughbred and Standardbred stakes races in many countries. Group One races may be run under handicap conditions in Australia but in Europe weight-for-age conditions always apply. Races may be also restricted to age groups or a...

 (G1) races on both sides of the Tasman Sea

Tasman Sea

The Tasman Sea is the large body of water between Australia and New Zealand, approximately across. It extends 2,800 km from north to south. It is a south-western segment of the South Pacific Ocean. The sea was named after the Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman, the first recorded European...

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In 2011 the Rough Habit Plate prize-money was distributed as follows: 1st $80,000, 2nd $25,000, 3rd $12,500, 4th $5,000.

Past winners

• 1994 Tenor
• 1995 Juggler
• 1996 Revenge
• 1997 Marble Halls
• 1998 Dodge
• 1999 Figurehead
• 2000 Kincourt
• 2001 De Gaulle Lane
• 2002 Distinctly Secret
• 2003 Bobs Boy
• 2004 Russian Pearl
• 2005 Activation
• 2006 Belmonte
• 2007 Empires Choice
• 2008 Mission Critical
• 2009 Rockdale
• 2010 The Hombre
• 2011 Fillydelphia