Chairman's Stakes (SAJC)

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ClassGroup 3
Inaugurated1983
Race typeThoroughbred
Chairman's Stakes (SAJC)
ClassGroup 3
LocationMorphettville Racecourse, South Australia
Inaugurated1983
Race typeThoroughbred
SponsorPFD Food Services (2024-26)
Race information
Distance2,000 metres
SurfaceTurf
TrackLeft-handed
QualificationThree-year-olds
WeightSet weights
colts and geldings 57+12 kg
fillies 55+12 kg
Purse$150,000 (2026)

The Chairman's Stakes is a South Australian Jockey Club Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds, at set weights, over a distance of 2,000 metres at the Morphettville Racecourse, Adelaide, Australia, in the Autumn Carnival.[1]

Name

The race is considered a prep lead-up race for the Group 1 South Australian Derby which is usually run a couple of weeks after this race at the same track.

Four horses have won the Chairman'sSA Derby double:
Markham (1997), Mummify (2003), Rebel Raider (2009), Howard Be Thy Name (2016), Leicester (2018)

  • 19831992 - Chairman's Stakes
  • 19932003 - The Veuve Clicquot Stakes[2]
  • 20042005 - Yalumba Plate[3]
  • 20062008 - Chairman's Stakes
  • 20092010 - Chairman's TAB Stakes[4]
  • 2011 - Chairman's Tattsbet Stakes[5]
  • 2012 - Chairman's Stakes
  • 2013 - Chairman's Veolia Stakes
  • 2014 onwards - Chairman's Stakes

Distance

  • 19831984 - 2000 metres[6]
  • 1985 - 1850 metres
  • 19861989 - 2000 metres
  • 1990 - 2003 metres
  • 19911992 - 2250 metres
  • 1993 - 2014 metres
  • 19942000 - 2000 metres
  • 2001 - 2024 metres
  • 2002 - 2000 metres
  • 2003 - 2025 metres
  • 2004 - 2024 metres
  • 2005 - 2031 metres
  • 20062007 - 2020 metres
  • 20082009 - 2000 metres
  • 2010 - 2014 metres
  • 2011 - 2020 metres
  • 20122014 - 2000 metres
  • 20152016 - 2020 metres
  • 2017 - 2030 metres
  • 2018, 2020 - 2035 metres
  • 2019 - 2032 metres
  • 2021 - 2040 metres
  • 2022 onwards - 2000 metres

Grade

  • 19822010 - Listed Race
  • 2011 onwards - Group 3

Venue

Winners

See also

References

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