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Rogilla
Rogilla was a chestnut Australian thoroughbred gelding, who was a versatile racehorse performing in Australia. Known as the ''Coalfields Champion'' from Newcastle, Rogilla raced during a vintage era of the Australian turf. He won in each of the six seasons that he raced as a three-year-old to an eight-year-old. Rogilla was an outstanding galloper in Sydney and Melbourne on wet or dry tracks recording 26 wins from 4½ furlongs to 2 miles with regular jockey Darby Munro winning 16 races. Breeding He was by Roger de Busli (GB) and his dam Speargila was by Brakespear (GB). Roger de Busli (GB) won three races from 20 starts in England. He commenced stud duties in 1925, but sired only one other winner of a principal race in Oro 1935 AJC Metropolitan Handicap. Rogilla's dam Speargila was a good racemare that won 13 races in Sydney, plus 10 other provincial and country races. Speargila was line-bred to Prince Charlie, as both Lochiel and Clan Stuart were sired by him. She was the dam ...
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Rogilla 1933 VRC Melbourne Stakes Flemington Racecourse Jockey Darby Munro Trainer Les Haigh
Rogilla was a chestnut Australian thoroughbred gelding, who was a versatile racehorse performing in Australia. Known as the ''Coalfields Champion'' from Newcastle, Rogilla raced during a vintage era of the Australian turf. He won in each of the six seasons that he raced as a three-year-old to an eight-year-old. Rogilla was an outstanding galloper in Sydney and Melbourne on wet or dry tracks recording 26 wins from 4½ furlongs to 2 miles with regular jockey Darby Munro winning 16 races. Breeding He was by Roger de Busli (GB) and his dam Speargila was by Brakespear (GB). Roger de Busli (GB) won three races from 20 starts in England. He commenced stud duties in 1925, but sired only one other winner of a principal race in Oro 1935 AJC Metropolitan Handicap. Rogilla's dam Speargila was a good racemare that won 13 races in Sydney, plus 10 other provincial and country races. Speargila was line-bred to Prince Charlie, as both Lochiel and Clan Stuart were sired by him. She was the da ...
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Darby Munro
David Hugh "Darby" Munro (5 March 1913 – 3 April 1966) also known as "the Demon" or the "Brown Bomber" was an Aboriginal Australian jockey born in Caulfield. He was a three-time winner of the Melbourne Cup. Early life He was educated at Marist Brothers' College, Randwick, and served his apprenticeship as a jockey with his brother John. By another account, Munro was born on 23 March 1913 in Melbourne but grew up in Sydney, and was "discovered" by prominent Randwick trainer Jeremiah "Jerome" Carey (c. 1867 – 6 February 1952), and in 1925 or 1926 taken to Melbourne where he gained some experience riding Carey's horse Bicolor. This same article asserts that Darby got his jockey's ticket as his father's apprentice, but his first race was on Carey's Karuma in a Tattersall's Two-year-old Handicap on 21 May 1927, and was beaten by a horse named Rosso. Career He trained with his father, Hugh Munro, from about age 10 and established himself as one of the best jockeys of the per ...
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Colin Stephen Quality Handicap
The Colin Stephen Quality Handicap is an Australian Turf Club Group 3 Thoroughbred open quality handicap horse race for horses three years old and older, over a distance of 2400 metres, held annually at Rosehill Racecourse, Sydney, Australia in September. Total prize money for the race is A$200,000. History Name The race is named after the former chairman of the Australian Jockey Club Sir Colin Stephen (1872-1937). Stephen was a solicitor, horse racing administrator, racehorse owner/breeder and polo player. A committee member from 1912 served on the Sir Adrian Knox sub-committee which framed the rules of racing of that year and as chairman of the Australian Jockey Club from 1919, Stephen was determined to make racing in New South Wales a clean and healthy pastime. In 1933 his revised rules were adopted throughout Australia. Sir Colin Stephen’s racing colours of Pale blue, white cap were carried to success by the Ascot Vale Stakes winners Fidelity 1936 & Caesar 1937 defeat ...
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AJC Kings Cup
The Queen Elizabeth Stakes, formerly known as the Queen's Plate, AJC Plate, and AJC King's Cup, is is an Australian Turf Club Group 1 Weight for Age thoroughbred horse race run over a distance of 2,000 metres at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia, in the autumn during the ATC Championships series. Prize money in 2013 was A$500,000 and was increased to A$4,000,000 in 2014 to become the richest race of the Sydney Autumn Carnival and as of 2020 the third richest WFA race in Australia (after the W. S. Cox Plate and the Everest). History The origins of this race are firmly associated with colonial Sydney and the growth of thoroughbred racing in the colony during the 1840s and 1850s. The Australian Jockey Club initiated an autumn race meet which coincided with the Easter holiday period and created several races which exist even today. One of these races was the Queen's Plate in honour of Queen Victoria which was first run in 1851 over a distance of about 3 miles. Thr ...
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Queen Elizabeth Stakes (ATC)
The Queen Elizabeth Stakes, formerly known as the Queen's Plate, AJC Plate, and AJC King's Cup, is is an Australian Turf Club Group 1 Weight for Age thoroughbred horse race run over a distance of 2,000 metres at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia, in the autumn during the ATC Championships series. Prize money in 2013 was A$500,000 and was increased to A$4,000,000 in 2014 to become the richest race of the Sydney Autumn Carnival and as of 2020 the third richest WFA race in Australia (after the W. S. Cox Plate and the Everest). History The origins of this race are firmly associated with colonial Sydney and the growth of thoroughbred racing in the colony during the 1840s and 1850s. The Australian Jockey Club initiated an autumn race meet which coincided with the Easter holiday period and created several races which exist even today. One of these races was the Queen's Plate in honour of Queen Victoria which was first run in 1851 over a distance of about 3 miles. Thr ...
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Winx Stakes
The Winx Stakes, registered as the Warwick Stakes, is a Group 1 Australian Turf Club thoroughbred horse race at Weight for Age, for three-year-olds and older over a distance of 1400 metres at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia in August. Prize money is currently A$500,000. History In 2015 prizemoney was increased from $175,000 to $250,000 and in 2018 to $500,000. 1946 racebook File:1946 AJC Warwick Stakes Racebook P1.jpg, Front cover of the 1946 AJC Warwick Stakes racebook. File:1946 AJC Warwick Stakes Racebook P2.jpg, Inside cover showing raceday officials. File:1946 AJC Warwick Stakes Racebook P3.jpg, Starters and results of the 1946 Warwick Stakes showing the winner, Bernborough. File:1946 AJC Warwick Stakes Racebook P4.jpg, Back cover showing charges at the entrance gates. Name In 2018 the race was renamed to the Winx Stakes, in honour of the champion Australian racehorse. Records * Record time for the 1300 metres was set by Al Mansour (2000) in 1:14.77. ...
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Hunter White
enryHunter White (4 October 1867 – 11 March 1947) was an Australian pastoralist, racehorse owner and breeder. He was a noted philanthropist who supported post-war repatriation with substantial gifts of land and the Church of England in New South Wales. He was born into a socially prominent rural family who had arrived in Sydney in 1826 and owned the Merino sheep and North Devon cattle property Havilah. Birth and early life White was born at Woodlands, near Denman, New South Wales. He was the son of Henry Charles White and his first wife, Isabella Mary Ann (née Lowe). Woodlands, an historic stud and homestead, had been bought by White's grandfather, James White circa 1860 and passed in to his father's hands in 1868. White was tutored privately in the country and at Fiona, in Edgecliff, when his father rented the house as a Sydney residence. On 18 April 1875 White’s mother, Isabella, died suddenly after the birth of her sixth child. Whilst on holiday in Tasmania in 18 ...
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Chelmsford Stakes
The Chelmsford Stakes is a Tattersalls Club Group 2 Thoroughbred horse race run over 1600 metres at Weight for Age at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia in September. Prize money is A$250,000. History The race was first run in 1895. Grade * 1895–1979 - Principal Race * 1980 onwards - Group 2 Venue * 1983 - Warwick Farm * 1984–1999 - Randwick * 2000 - Rosehill * 2001–2003 - Randwick * 2004 - Warwick Farm * 2005–2010 - Randwick * 2011–2012 - Warwick Farm * 2013 onwards - Randwick Distance * 1895–1971 - 9 furlongs (~1800 metres) * 1972–1982 – 1800 metres * 1983 – 1600 metres * 1984 – 1800 metres * 1985–1999 – 1600 metres * 2000 – 1500 metres * 2001 – 1400 metres * 2002–2005 – 1600 metres * 2006 – 1550 metres * 2008 onwards - 1600 metres 1926 & 1945 Racebooks File:1926 Randwick Tattersalls Club Racebook P1.jpg, Front cover of the 1926 Chelmsford Stakes racebook. File:1926 Randwick Tatts Ch ...
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Tramway Stakes
The Tramway Stakes, registered as the Tramway Handicap, is a City Tattersalls Club Group 2 Thoroughbred horse race for horses three years old and older run with set weights and penalties, over a distance of 1400 metres at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia in September. Total prizemoney for the race is A$250,000. History Grade * 1886–1978 - Principal Race * 1979–1983 - Listed Race * 1984–1983 - Group 3 * 2014 onwards - Group 2 Venue * 1984–1999 - Randwick * 2000 - Rosehill * 2001–2003 - Randwick * 2004 - Warwick Farm * 2005–2010 - Randwick * 2011–2012 - Warwick Farm * 2013 onwards - Randwick Distance * 1886–1971 - 7 furlongs (~1400 metres) * 1972–1999 – 1400 metres * 2000 – 1350 metres * 2001 – 1300 metres * 2002 onwards - 1400 metres 1926 & 1945 Racebooks File:1926 Randwick Tattersalls Club Racebook P1.jpg, Front cover of the 1926 Tatts Tramway Handicap racebook. File:1926 Randwick Tatts Tramway Handic ...
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Sydney Cup
The Sydney Cup is an Australian Turf Club Group 1 Thoroughbred handicap horse race, for horses three years old and older, run over 3200 metres at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Australia in the autumn during the ATC Championships series and it is the longest race in the club. Total prize money is A$2,000,000. The origins of this race are associated with colonial Sydney and the growth of thoroughbred racing in the colony during the 1850s. The Australian Jockey Club initiated an Autumn race meet of initially two days and expanded it as horse racing became the most attended sport meeting. Name The inaugural running of the race was 1 May 1862 as part of the Metropolitan Autumn Meeting at Randwick. The race was known as Jockey Club Handicap and it was the third race on the card. The race attracted 9 runners over the famed 2 miles and was won by the odds on favourite Talleyrand in a time of 3 minutes 52 seconds. In 1863 the Randwick Autumn Meeting, the third race on the first day of t ...
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Ranvet Stakes
The Ranvet Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group One, Group 1 Weight for Age Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds and older over a distance of 2,000 metres, held at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse in Sydney, Australia in March. Total prize money is Australian dollar, A$700,000. History The original name of the race was named after Harry Rawson, Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson, who was Governor of New South Wales from 27 May 1902 to 27 May 1909. Since 1991 the event has been named after the sponsor Ranvet, a supplier of equine nutrition, supplements and veterinary medications. Name * 1903–1987 - Rawson Stakes * 1988–1990 - Segenhoe Stakes * 1991 onwards - Ranvet Stakes Distance * 1903–1954 - miles (~1800 metres) * 1955 - miles (~2000 metres) * 1956–1962 - miles (~1800 metres) * 1963–1972 - furlongs (~1500 metres) * 1973–1978 – 1750 metres * 1979–2007 – 2000 metres * 2008 – 1900 metres (held at Canterbury Park Racecourse, Cante ...
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Queen Elizabeth Stakes (VRC)
The Queen Elizabeth Stakes, first known as Queen's Plate (1854-1872), and then by various other names at different times in its history (Queen's Cup, Flemington Plate, Canterbury Plate, C.B. Fisher Plate), is an Australian horse race run in Melbourne, Victoria. It is a registered Victoria Racing Club Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged three years old and over, under quality handicap conditions, over a distance of at Flemington Racecourse on the last day of the VRC Spring Carnival in early November. Total prize money is A$300,000. History Distance *1854–1874 – 3 miles (~4800 metres) *1875–1876 – 2 miles (~3200 metres) *1877–1878 - 2 miles (~3600 metres) *1879 – 2 miles (~3200 metres) *1880 - 2 miles (~3600 metres) *1881–1884 – 2 miles (~3200 metres) *1885 - 2 miles (~4000 metres) *1886–1887 – 2 miles (~3200 metres) *1888 – 3 miles (~4800 metres) *1889 - 2 miles (~3600 metres) *1890–1894 – 2 miles (~3200 metres) *1895–1971 - 1 mi ...
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