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The Queensland Guineas is a Brisbane Racing Club Group 2 Thoroughbred horse race held over 1600 metres, at set weights, for three-year-old horses held at Eagle Farm Racecourse in Brisbane, Australia in June during the Queensland Winter Racing Carnival. [1] Total prizemoney is A$350,000.
Race Name Group Stakes [a] Age Sex Weight Distance [b] Racecourse State Month A D Hollindale Stakes: 2 $500,000 3YO+ Open wfa 1800 Gold Coast QLD 2024-05-11 A J Moir Stakes: 1 $754,000 Open Open wfa 1000 Moonee Valley VIC 2023-09-23 The Gold Rush: 3 $1,500,000 3YO+ Open wfa 1400 Ascot WA 2023-12-16 A.V Kewney Stakes: 2 $300,000 3YO Fillies sw ...
The J. J. Atkins, registered as the T.J. Smith Stakes, is a Brisbane Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-olds run at set weights over a distance of 1600 metres at Eagle Farm Racecourse, Brisbane in June during the Queensland Winter Racing Carnival. [1] Total prizemoney is A$1,000,000.
The Brisbane Racing Club was founded on 1 July 2009 by a merger of the Queensland Turf Club and the Brisbane Turf Club (BTC). [2] The club conducted 98 race meetings in 2012. [2] The consolidation of the race clubs was the first of its kind in Australia [3] as later other metropolitan race clubs would follow their initiative. [4]
The Queensland Turf Club (QTC) was founded in August 1863. It began on a piece of land in Ascot, Queensland , later called Eagle Farm Racecourse , given to the club by government grant. The first meeting of the club was held on 14 August 1865.
In 1990 it separated from Betoota and became the Birdsville Race Club Incorporated. The 2007 races were affected by a national outbreak of horse flu . [ 5 ] The 2009 event attracted a crowd estimated at around 7,000, requiring 20 extra police to be temporarily posted to the small town. [ 6 ]
A further extension to 2.100 km (1.305 mi) was completed in 2002 and the venue hosted its first Queensland Motor Racing Championships round the same year. [1] In 2007 it hosted its first national championship races, the Formula Vee Nationals and the Australian Improved Production Nationals .
The Doomben Cup is a Brisbane Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for horses three years old and older, run under Weight for Age conditions over a distance of 2000 metres at Doomben Racecourse, Brisbane, Australia during the Queensland Winter Racing Carnival. [1] Total prize money is A$1,000,000.