Flight Stakes

Flight Stakes. Winners and Past Results.

The Flight Stakes is a AJC Group 1 Australian horse race for three year old fillies at set weights.

It is contested over a distance of 1600 metres at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney during the Sydney spring racing carnival each year in October and takes place on Epsom Handicap day. The Flight Stakes is the only Group One race for 3yo fillies held during the Sydney spring carnival.

Total prize money for the Flight Stakes is $300,000.

Samantha Miss and Angst (won in 1993) are the only two horses to win all four legs of the "Princess Series", which includes the Silver Shadow Stakes, Furious Stakes, Tea Rose Stakes and the Flight Stakes .

The race is named for champion mare Flight , the winner of the Cox Plate in 1945 and 1946.

The 2010 Flight Stakes will be run on October 2nd 2010.

The 2009 Flight Stakes winner was More Joyous from Sister Madly with Hurtle Myrtle third.

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