Colin Stephen Quality Handicap

Winners and Past Results for the Colin Stephen Quality Handicap.

The Colin Stephen Quality Handicap is an Australian Turf Club Group 3 Australian open quality handicap horse race for three year olds and upwards.

The Colin Stephen Quality is contested over a distance of 2400 metres and is  held annually at Rosehill Racecourse in Sydney in September during the Spring Racing Carnival.

Prize money for the Group 3 Colin Stephen Quality Handicap is worth $125,000.

The race is named after the former chairman of the Australian Jockey Club, Sir Colin Stephen, who died in 1937.

The winner of this race is exempt from a ballot and penalty in The Metropolitan Handicap which is held on the final day of the Randwick Carnival.

Lead up races for this event include the listed Premier's Cup at Rosehill and the Group 3 Newcastle Gold Cup at Newcastle

The Colin Stephen Quality is an excellent form guide for the Group 1 The Metropolitan over 2400m in recent times. Some of the past winners of this race and The Metropolitan are Railings (2005), Dress Circle (2001), Coco Cobana (2000), Vita Man (1999), In Joyment (1998), Heart Ruler (1997) and Hula Flight (1996).