Frank Packer Plate
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| Class | Group 3 |
|---|---|
| Location | Randwick Racecourse Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Inaugurated | 1980 |
| Race type | Thoroughbred – Flat racing |
| Sponsor | Toyota (2023, 2025-26) |
| Race information | |
| Distance | 2,000 metres |
| Surface | Turf |
| Track | Right-handed |
| Qualification | Three year old |
| Weight | Set weights colts and geldings – 56+1⁄2 kg fillies – 54+1⁄2 kg |
| Purse | $250,000 (2026) |
The Frank Packer Plate is an Australian Turf Club Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds at set weights run over a distance of 2000 metres at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia during the Autumn Carnival.[1]
Name
Those three year old gallopers who were not able to participate in the Australian Derby or in the Australian Oaks held over a distance of 2400 metres often take part in this middle distance event.
During recent times the race has been held on the last day of the ATC Autumn Carnival.
The race is named in honour of Sir Douglas Frank Hewson Packer, who was a media proprietor and former committeeman of the Australian Jockey Club for 12 years.[2]
Grade
- 1980–1990 - Group 2
- 1991 onwards - Group 3
Winners
The following are past winners of the race.[3]
- 2026 - Matias
- 2025 - Shangri La Spring
- 2024 - Kintyre
- 2023 - Osipenko[4]
- 2022 - Verona[5]
- 2021 - Senor Toba[6]
- 2020 - Kinane[7]
- 2019 - The Chosen One[8]
- 2018 - Higher Ground[9]
- 2017 - Mongolian Wolf[10]
- 2016 - He's Our Rokkii[11]
- 2015 - Hi World[12]
- 2014 - Arabian Gold[13]
- 2013 - Usainity[14]
- 2012 - Fat Al[15]
- 2011 - Shootoff[16]
- 2010 - Dariana[17]
- 2009 - Yallingup[18]
- 2008 - Rockwood[19]
- 2007 - Carnegie House[20]
- 2006 - Dream Machine[21]
- 2005 - Afraah[22]
- 2004 - Red Terror[23]
- 2003 - Clangalang[24]
- 2002 - Arlington Road[25]
- 2001 - Spurred On[26]
- 2000 - Freemason[27]
- 1999 - Franklin River[28]
- 1998 - Dodge[29]
- 1997 - Might and Power[30]
- 1996 - Mr Piper[31]
- 1995 - Juggler[32]
- 1994 - Espinosa[33]
- 1993 - Play Or Pay[34]
- 1992 - In The Event[35]
- 1991 - Bold Rancher[36]
- 1990 - Stargazer[37]
- 1989 - Royal Pardon[38]
- 1988 - Serestrina[39]
- 1987 - Never Quit[40]
- 1986 - Swift Cheval[41]
- 1985 - Spritely Native[42]
- 1984 - Pleasant Star[43]
- 1983 - Chiamara[44]
- 1982 - Dalmacia
- 1981 - Shaybisc
- 1980 - Lauriat