The Sweet Embrace Stakes 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...

 Australian 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 fillies aged two years old, over a distance of 1200 metres. It is held 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...

 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...

. The winner of the race is given an automatic place in the final field for the 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 race is named in honour of Sweet Embrace

Sweet Embrace

Sweet Embrace was a notable Australian 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....

, winner of the 1967 Golden Slipper Stakes.

Race history

• 1979 onwards held over 1200 metres.

• 1979 – 1986 was a Listed Race
• 1987 onwards Group 3

• 1979 - 1998 the race was known as the ‘Sweet Embrace Stakes’
• 1999 the race was known as the ‘Lone Star Steakhouse and Saloon Stakes’
• 2000 onwards the race has been called the ‘Sweet Embrace Stakes’.

The winners

• 2011 - Shared Reflections
• 2010 - Crystal Lily
• 2009 - Headway
• 2008 - Stripper
• 2007 - Chinchilla Rose
• 2006 - Universal Queen
• 2005 - Carry On Cutie
• 2004 - Burning Sands
• 2003 - Legally Bay
• 2002 - Victory Vein
• 2001 - Ha Ha
• 2000 - Dynamic Lover
• 1999 - Countess Christie
• 1998 - Rubicall
• 1997 - All The Chat
• 1996 - Flapper
• 1995 - Millrich
• 1994 - Shadowy Outline

• 1993 - Rock Review
• 1992 - Skating
• 1991 - Shadea
• 1990 - Paklani
• 1989 - A Little Kiss
• 1988 - Scollata
• 1987 - Postage Due
• 1986 - Khaptivaan
• 1985 - Speed Check
• 1984 - Vain Display
• 1983 - Purpose
• 1982 - Jade Lace
• 1981 - Black Shoes
• 1980 - Dark Eclipse
• 1979 - Ingenue