19-554: The Caulfield Guineas is a Melbourne Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race held over 1600 metres (1 mile) at set weights for three-year-old horses at Caulfield Racecourse , Melbourne , Australia . Total prize money is A$ 3 million. The race is held annually on the second Saturday in October and forms part of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival at Caulfield Racecourse . The Guineas, as
38-611: A Trust to plan for the future of the reserve, develop and maintain the reserve. The Trust reports publicly on its activities through an annual report which is reported to the Victorian Parliament and available on the Trust's web page. The Land Management Plan sets a bold vision for the future of the Reserve as a place for everyone is also available on the Trust's web page. The reserve is on Melbourne tram route 3 and
57-493: A board member, gave notice of a motion, backed by more than 150 members’ signatures, to convene a special general meeting of the club to oust five members of the board. Two other members of the board, joined Kanga’s "Save Our MRC" movement, despite having earlier signed an MRC statement criticising his actions. Caulfield Racecourse Caulfield Racecourse is one of Melbourne , Australia's best-known horse-racing tracks. Commonly known as "The Heath" by local racegoers, It
76-530: A total circumference of 2.08-kilometre (1.29 mi) and a finishing straight of 367-metre (1,204 ft). All turns have a 4% to 6% banking. Racing takes place in an anti-clockwise direction. The totally glassed in Rupert Clarke stand provides an uninterrupted view of the racecourse. Caulfield has about 25 race days each season and hosts some of the Australia's most famous and historic races including
95-454: Is available. There is also a baby change room and first aid facilities. After the 1995 Caulfield Cup, the track had major reconstruction of the course proper and re-opened in April 1996. The track was widened to 30-metre (98 ft) around the entire circumference and the straight lengthened by 43-metre (141 ft). The new racing surface has been cambered from the outside running rail with
114-562: Is home to the Melbourne Racing Club . Horse-racing started there in 1859 on a bush track where the Melbourne Hunt Club met. A racecourse was then laid out on the site of the club's dog kennels. The Victoria Amateur Turf Club was then established in 1876 and the first Caulfield Cup race was run in 1879. The track has a triangular-shaped layout, comprising three straights, 30-metre (98 ft) wide, with
133-643: The Caulfield Cup , Caulfield Guineas , Blue Diamond Stakes , C F Orr Stakes , Oakleigh Plate , Underwood Stakes and Futurity Stakes . Caulfield Racecourse Reserve is located nine kilometres from the Melbourne CBD , on the boundary of Caulfield and Caulfield East in Melbourne's south eastern suburbs. The Reserve was set aside for three purposes, racing, recreation and a public park. The Caulfield Racecourse Reserve Act 2017, established
152-548: The weight-for-age championship of Australasia, the Cox Plate ), Vain (1969, 6 G1 wins and champion sire), Storm Queen (1966, 5 G1 wins), the inaugural Australian Racing Hall of Fame inductee Tulloch (1957, 14 G1 wins), and Ajax (14 G1 wins and fellow Australian Racing Hall of Fame inductee). Thoroughbreds that have won the Caulfield Guineas – W. S. Cox Plate double: Thoroughbreds that have won
171-593: The Australian Hurdle. In 2024, the club was engulfed in controversy arising from a number of decisions by the MRC board, including the potential sale of Sandown Racecourse, a $ 250 million plan to replace the glass-fronted Rupert Clarke grandstand, and a $ 160 million upgrade to the Caulfield course that had included an unpopular new site of the mounting yard, and a new inner track that was rarely used. John Kanga,
190-658: The Caulfield Guineas – Victoria Derby double: † filly † Dead heat Melbourne Racing Club The Melbourne Racing Club (MRC) is one of three metropolitan horse racing clubs in Melbourne , Victoria , Australia. It began life as the Victoria Amateur Turf Club in 1875, with E.C. Moore as the club's first Secretary. The first VATC race meeting was held at Dowling Forest Racecourse in Ballarat , on Friday, 24 March 1876. Within six months,
209-979: The Guineas is regarded as a stallion making race for the winner, and has been won by a host of star gallopers who have gone on to multiple G1 success. These included Starspangledbanner (2010 G1 Oakleigh Plate , 2010 G1 Golden Jubilee Stakes ), Whobegotyou (2009 G1 Yalumba Stakes ), Weekend Hussler (six other G1 races including 2007 G1 Ascot Vale Stakes , 2008 G1 Randwick Guineas and 2008 G1 George Ryder Stakes ). Earlier winners include celebrated champion sires Lonhro (2001, 11 G1 wins) and Redoute's Choice (1999, 4 G1 wins). Looking further back, other outstanding winners include Mahogany (1993, 8 G1 wins), Red Anchor (1984, 4 G1 wins), champion sprinter Manikato (12 official G1 wins, 18 wins in races that are classified as G1 today), 2YO Triple Crown winner Luskin Star (1977, 4 G1 wins), Surround (1976, first and only filly to win
SECTION 10
#1732793243219228-845: The Members' Stand was destroyed by fire and, five years, later the Guineas Stand was also burnt down. In 1940, the military occupied Caulfield Racecourse for a period of four years, and it became a depot and barracks for army recruits during the Second World War . The then Vice-President of the United States, Richard Nixon , attended the Caulfield Cup meeting in 1953. In 1963, the Melbourne Racing Club, which had been created from an amalgamation of
247-678: The VATC was granted use of Crown land at Caulfield as a permanent home in Melbourne. In 1879, the club staged the first running of the Caulfield Cup and, two years later, introduced the Caulfield Guineas and the Toorak Handicap . In addition, the Caulfield Cup was switched to the spring racing season and became the lead up race to the Melbourne Cup . The Futurity Stakes was added to the racing calendar in 1898. In 1922,
266-572: The Williamstown Racing Club and the Victorian Racing and Trotting Association, was incorporated into the VATC. Following the merger, the newest of Melbourne's race tracks, Sandown Racecourse , was opened on 19 June 1965, in front of a crowd of over 52,000. The first Blue Diamond Stakes , a race for two-year-olds, was run at Caulfield in 1971, won by Tolerance. The glass-fronted Rupert Clarke Grandstand, which replaced
285-609: The construction of a second turf track at Sandown, to be known as Hillside, with the existing circuit being renamed Lakeside, a major upgrade of facilities and training tracks at Caulfield, and a change name from the Victoria Amateur Turf Club to the Melbourne Racing Club. Jumps racing is conducted at the Sandown track during the winter months, the blue ribbon events being the Australian Steeple and
304-698: The crown of the track at the outside running rail. The banking on the turn into the home straight is 4 percent, while the other turns have an equivalent banking of 2 percent. Further to the major works in 1996, the Caulfield track was re-laid in 2005 immediately preceding the Caulfield Cup Carnival and resumed racing for the Summer Classics Carnival, in February 2006. The following is a list of Group races which are run at Caulfield Racecourse. Aside from its use for racing,
323-555: The journey takes about 35 minutes from the city centre. Caulfield railway station is less than a hundred metres from the racecourse and is located on the Frankston , Cranbourne and Pakenham lines. Trains depart every 10 minutes from Flinders Street station in the Melbourne CBD . Caulfield Racecourse provides disabled carparks opposite the main entrance on Station Street. Lift access to grandstands and disabled toilets
342-450: The main Caulfield grandstand of the 1920s, was opened in 1992. With the increase in the number of visiting international horses to the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival , the VATC established a permanent quarantine centre at Sandown Racecourse in 1997. In 2001, the Club commenced a five-year, $ 20 million, strategic plan which included the establishment of 20 feature race days at Caulfield,
361-634: The race is known, starts the three-day Caulfield carnival; the G1 Toorak Handicap , G1 Caulfield Stakes and the fillies equivalent, the G1 The Thousand Guineas was also historically held on Guineas day, before moving to the first Saturday after the Melbourne Cup Carnival. During World War II the race was run at Flemington Racecourse . Regarded as one of the blue riband events for three-year-olds,
#218781