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Group races total over 540+ races each year which works out around 2-3% of total races held each season in Australia.
Group races are divided into 4 categories;
Group 1 - at least $250,000 prizemoney - 60+ races per season
Group 2 - at least $125,000 prizemoney - 80+ races per season
Group 3 - at least $75,000 prizemoney - 110+ races per season
Listed - at least $50,000 prizemoney - 280+ races per season
The Australian horse racing season runs from August to July each year and we have listed all the Group 1 and Group 2 races on the racing calendar.
The Coolmore Classic is a Group 1 Australian thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares. It is a set weights race, run over a distance of 1500 metres at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse, Sydney in April. Prior to 2008, it was held in March.
This race is run on the opening day of the Golden Slipper festival along with the Gr1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes. Being registered originally as the T A D Kennedy Stakes, it has changed many names to finally be known as the Coolmore Classic, attaining the level of group one race in 1984.
The winner is of this race is exempt from ballot for the Doncaster Hcp.
Some classy females have won this race including mighty mare Sunline (2000/2002) and Assertive Lass in 1997. In recent times, the Coolmore has been won by Eskimo Queen (2008) Tuesday Joy (2007) and Regal Cheer in 2006.
| Year | Winners | Race Name |
| 2009 | Typhoon Tracy | STC Coolmore Classic |
| 2008 | Eskimo Queen | STC Coolmore Classic |
| 2007 | Tuesday Joy | STC Coolmore Classic |
| 2006 | Regal Cheer | STC Coolmore Classic |
| 2005 | Danni Martine | STC Coolmore Classic |
| 2004 | Shamekha | STC Coolmore Classic |
| 2003 | Bollinger | STC Coolmore Classic |
| 2002 | Sunline | STC Coolmore Classic |
| 2001 | Porto Roca | STC Coolmore Classic |
| 2000 | Sunline | STC Coolmore Classic |
| 1999 | Camino Rose | STC Coolmore Classic |
| 1998 | Shindig | STC Coolmore Classic |
| 1997 | Assertive Lass | STC Coolmore Classic |
| 1996 | Chlorophyll | STC Coolmore Classic |
| 1995 | Flitter | STC Winfield Classic |
| 1994 | Kapchat | STC Winfield Classic |
| 1993 | Skating | STC Winfield Classic |
| 1992 | Acushla Marie | STC Winfield Classic |
| 1991 | Quicksilver Cindy | STC Orlando Wines Classic |
| 1990 | Happy Sailing | STC Orlando Wines Classic |
| 1989 | Red Express | STC Orlando Wines Classic |
| 1988 | Strawberry Fair | STC Orlando Classic |
| 1987 | Bounding Away | STC Orlando Classic |
| 1986 | Satin Sand | STC Orlando Classic |
| 1985 | Avon Angel | STC Rosemount Wines Classic |
| 1984 | Emancipation | STC Rosemount Wines Classic |
| 1983 | Hooplahannah | STC Rosemount Wines Classic |
| 1982 | Sheraco | STC Rosemount Wines Classic |
| 1981 | Cordon Rose | STC Rosemount Wines Classic |
| 1980 | Stage Hit | STC Rosemount Wines Classic |
| 1979 | Phar Talk | STC Rosemount Wines Classic |
| 1978 | Princess Talaria | STC Marlboro Classic |
| 1977 | Somerset Pride | STC Marlboro Classic |
| 1976 | Crimson Cloud | STC NSW Thoroughbred Breeder's |
| 1975 | Vicenza | STC NSW Thoroughbred Breeder's |
| 1974 | Favoured | STC Fillies & Mares Classic |
| 1973 | Miss Personality | STC Fillies & Mares Classic |