Yalumba Stakes

Winners and Past Results

The Yalumba Stakes is a Melbourne Racing Club Group 1 Australian horse race run under weight-for-age conditions for three-year-olds and upwards. FREE $250 Bet

It is contested over a distance of 2000 metres and is held annually at Caulfield Racecourse in Melbourne in October during the Spring Racing Carnival.

Prize money for the Yalumba Stakes is worth $400,000.

The race was previously known as the Caulfield Stakes but since 1997 it has been referred to as the Yalumba Stakes.

Held on the Caulfield Guineas Day - the first of three race days in the Caulfield Spring Racing Carnival, two other top quality Group One races go ahead alongside the Yalumba Stakes, being the Toorak Handicap and of course the Caulfield Guineas.

The Yalumba Stakes was first run over 9 furlongs on Melbourne Cup Day in 1886 when it was won by a horse called Isonomy.

It was transferred to Guineas Day in 1887, and in 1887 and 1888 it was ran over 10 furlongs. In 1889 it returned to the 9 furlong distance which was run until 1967. In 1968 the distance was made 2000 metres, and in 1979 it was made a Group 1 race.

2011 Yalumba Stakes

Descarado has been in ordinary form of late but the five-year-old recaptured some of his old spark in the Yalumba Stakes, going to the lead early and controlling the tempo of the race beautifully. The gelding pulled away from the field at the 600 metre mark and looked in total control in the straight, stretching out nicely to win despite a late challenge from Avienus, with Lights Of Heaven in third.

2011 Yalumba Stakes result

1. Descarado
2. Avienus
3. Lights Of Heaven

Then came:

4. Mighty High
5. Sincero
6. Playing God
7. Lion Tamer
8. Alcopop