Birthday Card Stakes
Horse race
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The Birthday Card Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group 3 Thoroughbred quality handicap horse race, for fillies and mares aged three years old and upwards, over a distance of 1200 metres, held at Rosehill Racecourse in Sydney, Australia in March.[1]
| Class | Group 3 |
|---|---|
| Location | Rosehill Gardens Racecourse |
| Inaugurated | 1986 |
| Race type | Thoroughbred – Flat racing |
| Sponsor | TAB (2015-26) |
| Race information | |
| Distance | 1,200 metres |
| Surface | Turf |
| Track | Right-handed |
| Qualification | Fillies and mares three years old and older |
| Weight | Quality handicap |
| Purse | A$250,000 (2026) |
History
The race is named in honour of Birthday Card, winner of the 1962 Golden Slipper Stakes.[2]
Name
- 1986–1991 - Birthday Card Quality Handicap
- 1992 - Clyde Kennedy Quality
- 1993–1998 - Birthday Card Quality Handicap
- 1999 - Birthday Card Stakes
- 2000–2004 - Birthday Card Quality Handicap
- 2005 - Birthday Card Stakes
- 2006 - Allied Express Stakes[3]
- 2007–2008 - Cleanevent Stakes[4]
- 2009 onwards - Birthday Card Stakes
Venue
- 1986–1996 - Canterbury
- 1997–1999 - Rosehill
- 2000–2002 - Canterbury[5]
- 2003 onwards - Rosehill
Distance
- 1986–1987 - 1280 metres
- 1987–1993 - 1100 metres
- 1994 onwards - 1200 metres
Grade
- 1986–2005 - Listed race
- 2006 onwards - Group 3
Winners
The following are past winners of the race.[6]
- 2026 - Catch The Glory
- 2025 - Austmarr
- 2024 - Chain of Lightning[7]
- 2023 - Zapateo[8]
- 2022 - Emanate[9]
- 2021 - Seasons[10]
- 2020 - Miss Exfactor[11]
- 2019 - Avantage[12]
- 2018 - Quilista[13]
- 2017 - Raiment[14]
- 2016 - Sultry Feeling[15]
- 2015 - Shamalia[16]
- 2014 - Avoid Lightning[17]
- 2013 - Arinosa[18]
- 2012 - Celts[19]
- 2011 - Zingaling[20]
- 2010 - Patronyme[21]
- 2009 - Gamble Me[22]
- 2008 - Throne Inn[23]
- 2007 - Aunty Betty[4]
- 2006 - Imana[3]
- 2005 - Tui Song[24]
- 2004 - Paraca[25]
- 2003 - Toast Of The Coast[26]
- 2002 - Hot Riff[27]
- 2001 - Spinning Hill[28]
- 2000 - Verdict Declared[5]
- 1999 - Toorak[29]
- 1998 - All The Rave[30]
- 1997 - Unison[31]
- 1996 - So Keen[32]
- 1995 - Light Up The World[33]
- 1994 - Baldeen[34]
- 1993 - Miss Kariba[35]
- 1992 - River Love
- 1991 - Settlers Cove
- 1990 - Deira
- 1989 - Simple Tastes
- 1988 - Mother Duck
- 1987 - Special
- 1986 - Kisim Hiat