Sweet Embrace
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Sweet Embrace was a notable Australia
n thoroughbred
racehorse
. She was a chestnut
daughter of Todman
from the Port Vista mare Miss Port.
She is best remembered for winning the 1967 STC
Golden Slipper Stakes.
The Sweet Embrace Stakes
run annually at Randwick Racecourse
is named in her honour.
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...
racehorse
Horse
The horse is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus, or the wild horse. It is a single-hooved mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today...
. She was a chestnut
Chestnut (coat)
Chestnut is a hair coat color of horses consisting of a reddish-to-brown coat with a mane and tail the same or lighter in color than the coat. Genetically and visually, chestnut is characterized by the absolute absence of true black hairs...
daughter of Todman
Todman
Todman was one of the greatest Australian Thoroughbred racehorses and an important sire. He was perhaps best known as the winner of the inaugural STC Golden Slipper in 1957, being the first of Star Kingdom’s five successive winners of the race...
from the Port Vista mare Miss Port.
She is best remembered for winning the 1967 STC
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...
Golden Slipper Stakes.
The Sweet Embrace Stakes
Sweet Embrace Stakes
The Sweet Embrace Stakes is a Group 3 Australian Thoroughbred horse race for fillies aged two years old, over a distance of 1200 metres. It is held annually at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney...
run annually 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...
is named in her honour.