Blamey Stakes
The Blamey Stakes is a Group 2 race held each year in March at Flemington racecourse in Melbourne during the Melbourne autumn racing carnival. The race is run over a distance of 1600 metres under set weight & penalty conditions with prize money of $200,000. The 2020 Blamey Stakes was won by Fifty Stars from Secret Blaze with Admiral's Joker third.
Taking place alongside the Group 1 Australian Guineas for three-year-olds, the Blamey Stakes is held one week before two of the VRC's biggest races of the autumn, the Group 1 Newmarket Handicap and Group 1 Australian Cup.
Blamey Stakes info
| Date: | Saturday 27th February 2021 |
| Track: | Flemington racecourse, Melbourne |
| Distance: | 1600 metres |
| Race Type: | Open - Set Weights + Penalty |
| Status: | Group 2 |
| Prize Money: | $200,000 |
| 2020 Winner: | Fifty Stars |
The Blamey Stakes is a good quality race for open horses and the set weight plus penalties conditions of the race tends to favour the better gallopers assembled on the day. Every now and then a top class galloper may find his name on the Blamey Stakes winner's trophy and quality racehorses such as Apache Cat (2007), Durbridge (1994-95), Better Loosen Up (1990-91) and Vo Rogue (1988-89) have all won this race over the years.
Horses who tackled the Group 1 Futurity Stakes at Caulfield in February might find their way to the Blamey Stakes, or perhaps an emerging three-year-old galloper who may want to take on the older horses in a slightly weaker group race than the featured Group 1 races of the autumn. Talented mare Suavito (2015) is the most recent winner of the Futurity Stakes & Blamey Stakes double in the same year.
Classy stayer Green Moon (2012) won this race in the autumn before returning in the spring to win the Group 1 Melbourne Cup on the first Tuesday in November. Sertorious (2nd in 2015) managed to win the Group 3 Easter Cup at Caulfield at his next start.
Fifty Stars (2019-2020) ran fourth in the Group 1 CF Orr Stakes over 1400m at Caulfield before finishing strongly to win this event for the second year in a row for the David & Ben Hayes & Tom Dabernig stable.
Recent Blamey Stakes winners include Humidor (2018) and Palentino (2017).
2020 Blamey Stakes result
1. $2.60 Fifty Stars 58.0 Craig Williams
2. $21.00 Secret Blaze 57.0 Jamie Kah
3. $6.50 Admiral's Joker 58.0 Steven Vella
then followed
4. $12.00 So Si Bon 57.0 Luke Nolen
5. $12.00 Galaxy Raider 55.0 Teodore Nugent
6. $8.50 Ringerdingding 57.0 John Allen
7. $4.80 Night's Watch 55.0 Damien Oliver
8. $18.00 Guizot 55.0 Jordan Childs
9. $61.00 Gallic Chieftain 58.0 Damian Lane
Margins: 1.5 ken, 0.3 len
Time: 1:34.54
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Blamey Stakes winners & placegetters
| Year | Winner | 2nd | 3rd | Time |
| 2020 | Fifty Stars | Secret Blaze | Admiral's Joker | 1:34.5 |
| 2019 | Fifty Stars | So Si Bon | Cool Chap | 1:35.8 |
| 2018 | Humidor | Cool Chap | Hellova Street | 1:36.8 |
| 2017 | Palentino | Tosen Stardom | Harlem | 1:35.4 |
| 2016 | He Or She | The United States | Stratum Star | 1:34.9 |
| 2015 | Suavito | Sertorius | Kourkam | 1:36.9 |
| 2014 | Lidari | Foundry | Sertorius | 1:38.1 |
| 2013 | =1 Budriguez | =1 Puissance De Lune | Wall Street | 1:36.3 |
| 2012 | Green Moon | Pied A Terre | Wall Street | 1:35.8 |
| 2011 | Whobegotyou | Dao Dao | Fanjura | 1:36.5 |
| 2010 | Lord Tavistock | Vigor | Dao Dao | 1:36.3 |
| 2009 | Largo Lad | Playright | Just Look | 1:38.1 |
| 2008 | The Fuzz | Barlinnie | Orange County | 1:36.9 |
| 2007 | Apache Cat | Bon Hoffa | Molotov | 1:37.7 |
| 2006 | Rosden | Great Is Great | Roman Arch | 1:33.8 |
| 2005 | Grey Song | Roman Arch | Gallic | 1:33.9 |
| 2004 | Gold Wells | Lord Erin | Pretorius | 1:36.2 |
| 2003 | Walk On Air | Mr Murphy | Mr Magoo | 1:35.1 |
| 2002 | Tears Royal | Weasel Will | Consular | 1:37.2 |
| 2001 | Market Price | Emission | Second Coming | 1:37.4 |
| 2000 | Oliver Twist | Royal Voyage | Noircir | 1:35.2 |
| 1999 | Thackeray | Prime Address | Zuccherino | 1:35.3 |
| 1998 | Willoughby | Rustic Dream | Royal Blue | 1:36.4 |
| 1997 | Zuccherino | Saleous | Istidaad | 1:35.9 |
| 1996 | Racer's Edge | Starstruck | Paris Lane | 1:35.7 |
| 1995 | Durbridge | Station Hand | Starstruck | 1:34.2 |
| 1994 | Durbridge | Our Pompeii | Credit Account | 1:34.9 |
| 1993 | Prince Salieri | Jolly Old Mac | Mannerism | 1:35.2 |
| 1992 | Shiva's Revenge | Shavano Miss | Dr Grace | 1:34.3 |
| 1991 | Better Loosen Up | Vo Rogue | Kingston Rule | 1:35.4 |
| 1990 | Better Loosen Up | Super Impose | Vo Rogue | 1:37.6 |
| 1989 | Vo Rogue | Marwong | Apollo Run | 1:35.9 |
| 1988 | Vo Rogue | Bonhomie | Cossack Warrior | 1:34.0 |
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