Angst Stakes
Horse race
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The Angst Stakes, registered as the Angst Quality Handicap, is an Australian Turf Club Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race for four-year-old mares and up, run at set weights with penalties, over a distance of 1600 metres at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia in October.[1] The prize money for the event is A$250,000.
| Class | Group 3 |
|---|---|
| Location | Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia |
| Inaugurated | 1994 |
| Race type | Thoroughbred |
| Sponsor | Asahi Super Dry (2025) |
| Race information | |
| Distance | 1,600 metres |
| Surface | Turf |
| Track | Right-handed |
| Qualification | Mares, four-year-old and older |
| Weight | Set weights with penalties |
| Purse | $250,000 (2025) |
History
The race is named in honour of the 3 year old, grey filly named Angst. The winner of 7 races from 10 starts in 1993, including the Silver Shadow Stakes, Furious Stakes, Tea Rose Stakes and the Flight Stakes. The filly died the same year when undergoing a procedure to remove polyps from her larynx.[2]
Name
- 1994–2004 - Angst Mares Quality Handicap
- 2005 onwards - Angst Stakes
Venue
- 2006–2010 - Randwick Racecourse
- 2011–2012 - Rosehill Racecourse
- 2013 onwards - Randwick Racecourse
Grade
- 1994–2012 - Listed race
- 2013 onwards - Group 3
Distance
- 1994–2011 - 1,400 metres
- 2012 - 1,500 metres
- 2013 onwards - 1,600 metres
Winners
- 2025 - Idle Flyer[3]
- 2024 - Lekvarte[4]
- 2023 - Renaissance Woman[5]
- 2022 - Hope In Your Heart[6]
- 2021 - Mirra Vision[7]
- 2020 - Emeralds[8]
- 2019 - Nettoyer[9]
- 2018 - I Am Serious[10]
- 2017 - Dixie Blossoms[11]
- 2016 - Dixie Blossoms[12]
- 2015 - Casino Dancer[13]
- 2014 - Neena Rock[14]
- 2013 - Sharnee Rose[15]
- 2012 - Nocturnelle[16]
- 2011 - Little Surfer Girl[17]
- 2010 - Lovemelikearock[18]
- 2009 - Illuminates[19]
- 2008 - Neroli[20]
- 2007 - †race not held
- 2006 - More Than Lucky[21]
- 2005 - Wild Queen[22]
- 2004 - Hennessy Waltz[23]
- 2003 - Zanna (NZ)[24]
- 2002 - Miss Zoe[25]
- 2001 - Danasia
- 2000 - Prenuptial
- 1999 - Roseville
- 1998 - Zalinda
- 1997 - Stoneyfell Road
- 1996 - Rich Aunty
- 1995 - Chlorophyll
- 1994 - Sky Watch
† Not held because of outbreak of equine influenza[26]
