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Up and Coming Stakes
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The Up and Coming Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old colts and geldings, run as a quality handicap over a distance of 1300 metres in Sydney, Australia in August.
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History
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Perspective
The race is considered a good start to returning to racing in the new racing calendar for talented three-year-olds gearing up for an Australian spring campaign. It is often won by a classy three-year-old, as evidenced by the honour roll of past winners who went on to become genuine stars on the track and/or stud such as:[2]
- Exceed and Excel - Australian Champion Sprinter (2003/04) and Australian Champion Sire (2012/13)
- Fastnet Rock - Australian Champion Sprinter (2004/05), Australian Champion Three Year Old Colt/Gelding (2004/05), Australian Champion Stallion (2011/12 & 2014/15)
- General Nediym
- Marscay - Australian Champion sire in 1990–91 and 1992–93
- Mahogany - Australian Champion Three Year Old (1993-1994), Australian Horse of the Year(1993-1994)
- Snitzel - Australian Champion Sire (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
- Testa Rossa - Australian Champion Sprinter (1999-2000).
Name
The race is named in honour of the 1959 Warwick Stakes and Canterbury Stakes winner Up And Coming.[3] The race is held on the same racecard as the Warwick Stakes.
Distance
- 1980–1988 – 1200 metres
- 1989 – 1160 metres[4]
- 1990–2010 – 1200 metres
- 2011 onwards - 1300 metres
Grade
- 1979 - Listed race
- 1980–1992 - Group 3
- 1993–2004 - Group 2
- 2005–2012 - Group 3
- 2013 - Group 2
- 2014 onwards - Group 3
Venue
- 1979–1992 - Warwick Farm Racecourse
- 1993–1996 - Randwick Racecourse
- 1997–1999 - Warwick Farm Racecourse
- 2000 - Canterbury Park Racecourse
- 2001–2004 - Warwick Farm Racecourse
- 2005–2006 - Randwick Racecourse
- 2008 - Warwick Farm Racecourse
- 2009 - Randwick Racecourse
- 2010–2013 - Warwick Farm Racecourse
- 2014–2020 - Randwick Racecourse
- 2021 - Kembla Grange Racecourse
- 2022 - Rosehill Racecourse
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Winners
Winners of the race are as follows.[5][6]
- 2025 - Grand Prairie[7]
- 2024 - Autumn Glow
- 2023 - Tom Kitten
- 2022 - Kibou[8]
- 2021 - Tiger Of Malay[9]
- 2020 - North Pacific[10]
- 2019 - True Detective[11]
- 2018 - Master Ash[12]
- 2017 - Dracarys[13]
- 2016 - Divine Prophet[14]
- 2015 - Shards[15]
- 2014 - Scissor Kick[16]
- 2013 - War[17]
- 2012 - Albrecht[18]
- 2011 - Manawanui[19]
- 2010 - Blackball[20]
- 2009 - Rarefied[21]
- 2008 - Dreamscape[22]
- 2007 - †race not held
- 2006 - Court Command[23]
- 2005 - Snitzel[24]
- 2004 - Fastnet Rock[25]
- 2003 - Exceed And Excel[26]
- 2002 - Snowland[27]
- 2001 - Newquay[28]
- 2000 - Zariz[29]
- 1999 - Testa Rossa[30]
- 1998 - Paris Dream[31]
- 1997 - General Nediym[32]
- 1996 - Paint[33]
- 1995 - Our Maizcay[34]
- 1994 - Bulldog Yeats[35]
- 1993 - Mahogany[36]
- 1992 - West End[37]
- 1991 - Kinjite[38]
- 1990 - The Bullfighter[39]
- 1989 - Patronise[4]
- 1988 - Star Watch[40]
- 1987 - Sky Chase[41]
- 1986 - Broad Reach[42]
- 1985 - Timothy[43]
- 1984 - Royal Troubador[44]
- 1983 - Sir Dapper[45]
- 1982 - Marscay
- 1981 - Best Western
- 1980 - John's Hero[46]
- 1979 - Spear
† Not held because of outbreak of equine influenza[47]
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See also
References
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