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.
History
The race is named in honour of Birthday Card, winner of the 1962 Golden Slipper Stakes.
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
- 2007–2008 - Cleanevent Stakes
- 2009 onwards - Birthday Card Stakes
Venue
- 1986–1996 - Canterbury
- 1997–1999 - Rosehill
- 2000–2002 - Canterbury
- 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.
- 2026 - Catch The Glory
- 2025 - Austmarr
- 2024 - Chain of Lightning
- 2023 - Zapateo
- 2022 - Emanate
- 2021 - Seasons
- 2020 - Miss Exfactor
- 2019 - Avantage
- 2018 - Quilista
- 2017 - Raiment
- 2016 - Sultry Feeling
- 2015 - Shamalia
- 2014 - Avoid Lightning
- 2013 - Arinosa
- 2012 - Celts
- 2011 - Zingaling
- 2010 - Patronyme
- 2009 - Gamble Me
- 2008 - Throne Inn
- 2007 - Aunty Betty
- 2006 - Imana
- 2005 - Tui Song
- 2004 - Paraca
- 2003 - Toast Of The Coast
- 2002 - Hot Riff
- 2001 - Spinning Hill
- 2000 - Verdict Declared
- 1999 - Toorak
- 1998 - All The Rave
- 1997 - Unison
- 1996 - So Keen
- 1995 - Light Up The World
- 1994 - Baldeen
- 1993 - Miss Kariba
- 1992 - River Love
- 1991 - Settlers Cove
- 1990 - Deira
- 1989 - Simple Tastes
- 1988 - Mother Duck
- 1987 - Special
- 1986 - Kisim Hiat
See also
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