Sweet Embrace Stakes
Horse race
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The Sweet Embrace Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group 2 Thoroughbred horse race for fillies aged two years old, over a distance of 1200 metres at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Australia in late February or early March.
ClassGroup 2
LocationRandwick Racecourse,
Sydney, Australia
Sydney, Australia
Inaugurated1979
Race typeThoroughbred - flat
| Class | Group 2 |
|---|---|
| Location | Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia |
| Inaugurated | 1979 |
| Race type | Thoroughbred - flat |
| Sponsor | Sintoro |
| Race information | |
| Distance | 1,200 metres |
| Surface | Turf |
| Track | Right-handed |
| Qualification | Two-year-old fillies |
| Weight | Set weights 55+1⁄2 kg |
| Purse | A$300,000 (2026) |
| Bonuses | Automatic entry to the Golden Slipper Stakes |
The winner of this race receives automatic entry to the Golden Slipper Stakes.[1]
History
The race is named in honour of Sweet Embrace, winner of the 1967 Golden Slipper Stakes.[2] Fillies that have captured the Sweet Embrace – Golden Slipper double include:
- Dark Eclipse (1980)
- Ha Ha (2001)
- Crystal Lily (2010)
- Fireburn (2022).
Jason Collett was the winning rider in 2014, 2022 and 2025. Hugh Bowman won in 2012, 2018 and 2023.
Name
- 1979–1998 - Sweet Embrace Stakes
- 1999 - Lone Star Steakhouse and Saloon Stakes[3]
- 2000 onwards - Sweet Embrace Stakes
Venue
- Before 1995 - Canterbury Park Racecourse
- 1996–1999 - Rosehill Gardens Racecourse
- 2000–2005 - Canterbury Park Racecourse
- 2006–2010 - Randwick Racecourse
- 2011 - Warwick Farm Racecourse
- 2012 - Randwick Racecourse
- 2013 - Warwick Farm Racecourse
- 2014 - Randwick Racecourse
- 2015 - Warwick Farm Racecourse
- 2016 onwards - Randwick Racecourse
Grade
- 1979–1986 - Listed Race
- 1987–2012 - Group 3
- 2013 onwards - Group 2
Winners
The following are past winners of the race.[4]
- 2026 - Spicy Miss
- 2025 - Within The Law
- 2024 - Manaal
- 2023 - Lazzago[5]
- 2022 - Fireburn[6]
- 2021 - Four Moves Ahead[7]
- 2020 - Hungry Heart[8]
- 2019 - Anaheed[9]
- 2018 - Seabrook[10]
- 2017 - One More Honey[11]
- 2016 - Scarlet Rain[12]
- 2015 - Always Allison[13]
- 2014 - Believe Yourself[14]
- 2013 - Romantic Moon[15]
- 2012 - Jade Marauder[16]
- 2011 - Shared Reflections[17]
- 2010 - Crystal Lily[18]
- 2009 - Headway[19]
- 2008 - Stripper[20]
- 2007 - Chinchilla Rose[21]
- 2006 - Universal Queen[22]
- 2005 - Carry On Cutie[23]
- 2004 - Burning Sands[24]
- 2003 - Legally Bay[25]
- 2002 - Victory Vein[26]
- 2001 - Ha Ha[27]
- 2000 - Dynamic Love[28]
- 1999 - Countess Christie[29]
- 1998 - Rubicall[30]
- 1997 - All The Chat[31]
- 1996 - Flapper[32]
- 1995 - Millrich[33]
- 1994 - Shadowy Outline[34]
- 1993 - Rock Review[35]
- 1992 - Skating[36]
- 1991 - Shadea[37]
- 1990 - Paklani[38]
- 1989 - A Little Kiss[39]
- 1988 - Scollata[40]
- 1987 - Postage Due[41]
- 1986 - Khaptivaan
- 1985 - Speed Check
- 1984 - Vain Display
- 1983 - Purpose
- 1982 - Jade Lace
- 1981 - Black Shoes
- 1980 - Dark Eclipse
- 1979 - Ingenue