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Sires' Produce Stakes (VRC)
The Sires' Produce Stakes is a Victoria Racing Club Group 2 Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-olds, run at set weights, over a distance of 1400 metres, at Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia in March during the VRC Autumn Racing Carnival. The total prize money is A$300,000. History The race has had several changes in grade, name and in distance. Among the past winners of this race are two of the very best performers in the history of the Australian turf in Tulloch in 1957 and Vain in 1969. 1954 racebook File:1954 VRC Australian Cup P1.jpg, Front page 1954 VRC Sires Produce Stakes racebook. File:1954 VRC Australian Cup P2.jpg, 1954 VRC Sires Produce Stakes raceday officials. File:1954 VRC Sires Produce Stakes Racebook P2.jpg, Starters and results of the 1954 Sires Produce Stakes showing the winner, Acramitis. File:1954 VRC Sires Produce Stakes Racebook P3.jpg, Starters and results of the 1954 Sires Produce Stakes. Distance * In 1862–63 - 1 mile (~16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold Rod 1936 VRC Sires Produce Stakes Flemington Racecourse Jockey Jack Pratt Trainer George Price
Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal in a pure form. Chemically, gold is a transition metal and a group 11 element. It is one of the least reactive chemical elements and is solid under standard conditions. Gold often occurs in free elemental ( native state), as nuggets or grains, in rocks, veins, and alluvial deposits. It occurs in a solid solution series with the native element silver (as electrum), naturally alloyed with other metals like copper and palladium, and mineral inclusions such as within pyrite. Less commonly, it occurs in minerals as gold compounds, often with tellurium (gold tellurides). Gold is resistant to most acids, though it does dissolve in aqua regia (a mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid), forming a soluble tetrachloroaurate anion. Gold is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
