Horse Racing Events in Australia

Horse Racing in Australia is administered by the Australian Racing Board, with each state's Principal Racing Authority agreeing to abide by, and to enforce, the Australian Rules of Racing.

Thoroughbred horse racing is the third most attended spectator sport in Australia, behind Australian rules football and rugby league, with almost 2 million admissions to the 379 racecourses throughout Australia in 2002-2003.

Public interest in thoroughbred racing, especially during the main Spring and Autumn racing carnivals, has been growing in recent years with over 100,000 attracted to the running of both the Melbourne Cup and VRC Oaks. The Caulfield Cup and W S Cox Plate are also major attractions.

Throughout its history, horse racing has become part of the Australian culture and has developed a rich and colourful language, as well as providing some of Australia's great sporting icons such as Phar Lap, Tulloch, Bernborough, Kingston Town, Northerly and Makybe Diva

Here's a list of notable horse racing events which take place in Australia.

A J Scahill Stakes A.V Kewney Stakes AAMI Vase AJC Metropolitan Handicap AJC Oaks AJC Queen Elizabeth Stakes AJC Sires Produce Stakes Adelaide Cup Alister Clark Stakes All Aged Stakes Angus Armanasco Stakes Apollo Stakes Auraria Stakes Australasian Oaks Australia Stakes Australian Cup Australian Derby Australian Guineas BTC Cup BTC Sprint Bill Stutt Stakes Birdsville Races Blamey Stakes Bletchingly Stakes Blue Diamond Prelude C&G Blue Diamond Prelude Fillies Blue Diamond Stakes Brisbane Cup C B Cox Stakes C F Orr Stakes CB Fisher Plate Canterbury Guineas Carlyon Cup Cathay Pacific Gold Cup Caulfield Cup Caulfield Guineas Caulfield Stakes Champagne Stakes (Australia) Chelmsford Stakes Chipping Norton Stakes City Pacific Finance Stakes Coolmore Classic Coongy Handicap Cox Plate Craiglee Stakes Craven Plate Crown Oaks D.C. McKay Stakes Dane Ripper Quality Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes Doncaster Handicap Doomben 10,000 Doomben Cup Doomben Roses Edward Manifold Stakes Emancipation Stakes Epsom Handicap Expressway Stakes Flight Stakes Futurity Stakes (Australia) Geelong Cup George Main Stakes George Moore Stakes George Ryder Stakes Golden Slipper Stakes Goodwood Handicap Grand Annual Great Eastern Steeplechase Group races Guineas Prelude Hill Stakes Hilton International Stakes Hobart Cup Hobartville Stakes Hollylodge Classic How Now Stakes Ian McEwen Trophy Inglis Mile Invitation Stakes J J Liston Stakes Jayco Crystal Mile Kingston Town Classic LKS Mackinnon Stakes Lee Steere Classic Lee Steere Stakes Let's Elope Stakes Light Fingers Stakes

List of Australian Group races List of Cox Plate winners MVRC Champagne Stakes Manikato Stakes Mannerism Stakes Maribyrnong Plate Memsie Stakes Newmarket Handicap Norman Carlyon Stakes Norman Robinson Stakes Oakleigh Plate P J O'Shea Stakes Perth Cup Pol Roger Stakes Premier's Cup Premiere Stakes QTC Cup QTC Grand Prix Stakes QTC Sires Produce Stakes Queen of the Turf Stakes Queensland Derby Queensland Guineas Queensland Oaks R. N. Irwin Stakes Railway Stakes (Australia) Randwick Guineas Ranvet Stakes Robert A. Lee Stakes Robert Sangster Stakes Rosehill Guineas Rough Habit Plate Royal Sovereign Stakes Rubiton Stakes SAJC Breeders' Stakes SAJC Coolmore Classic SAJC Queen's Cup SAJC Sires' Produce Stakes SAJC Spring Stakes Saab Quality Salinger Stakes Sandown Classic Sandown Guineas Schillaci Stakes Schweppes Stakes Silver Slipper Stakes South Australian Oaks Spring Champion Stakes Spring Grand Slam St George Stakes Stakes (VRC) Standish Handicap Storm Queen Stakes Stradbroke Handicap Sunline Stakes Sweet Embrace Stakes Sydney Cup T J Smith Stakes Thai Airways International Sprint The Age Classic The BMW Stakes The Galaxy (horse race) The Jansz The T J Smith The Thousand Guineas The Vanity Thoroughbred Breeders Stakes Tooheys New Stakes Toorak Handicap Tristarc Stakes Turnbull Stakes Underwood Stakes VRC Queen Elizabeth Stakes VRC Queens Plate VRC Sires Produce Stakes VRC St Leger Victoria Derby Villiers Stakes W H Stocks Stakes WA Guineas WATC Derby Wakeful Stakes Warwick Stakes Wellington R C Stakes Winning Edge Stakes Winter Stakes Winterbottom Stakes Yallambee Classic