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Often a nice horse comes from the Race History of the Carbine Club Stakes run at Flemington on Saturday.
Saintly was one of those. Surely not in this 2023 Carbine Club Stakes (1600m) at Flemington on Saturday.
2023 CARBINE CLUB STAKES - RACE HISTORY AND BACKGROUND
The Carbine Club Stakes is a Group 3 race run under Set Weights and Penalty conditions for three year olds at Flemington conducted by the Victoria Racing Club.
The Carbine Club Stakes is run over 1600m. It was first run in 1971 and was won by Kiss Me Cait.
The race is named after the national organisation known as the Carbine Club. That Club was named after the champion galloper Carbine.
The Carbine Club Stakes is always run at the mile.
The Carbine Club Stakes was a Listed Race from inception until 1998 then it became a Group 3.
Not many fillies have won in recent years with Fangirl's win the most recent since Permaiscuous in 2006. Only six have won it.
Fangirl returned in the Autumn following her Carbine Club win and took out the Vinery Stud Stakes which was run at Newcastle due to the wet spell in Sydney.
Bart Cummings often used the race as a guide to a horse's ability including Think Big winning it. Another grand horse and Melbourne Cup winner of his Saintly also won the race.
Levendi would win the Tulloch Stakes and ATC Australian Derby in the Autumn after winning the Carbine Club.
Many winners often head on to the Sandown Guineas a fortnight later.
The Carbine Club Stakes was worth $500,000 in 2023.
In 2019, a $1 million bonus was offered for the winner of the Carbine Club Stakes if any horse competed in the Group 2 Stutt Stakes, Group 3 Thousand Guineas Prelude or Group 3 Caulfield Guineas Prelude, followed by the Group 1 Thousand Guineas or the Group 1 Caulfield Guineas, and then wins the Carbine Club Stakes, they would be awarded the bonus. Dalasan won that bonus in its first year.
Notable winners of the Carbine Club Stakes include Fangirl (2021), Comin' Through (2016), Kermadec (2014), Kidnapped (2009), Al Maher (2004), Over (1999), Saintly (1995), Submariner (1989), Warned (1986), Shankhill Lass (1985), Emancipation (1982) and Think Big (1973).
The 2022 Carbine Club Stakes was won by Perfect Thought from Elkington Road and The Fortune Teller.
