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Kindergarten Stakes

Kindergarten Stakes
Group 3 race
Location Randwick Racecourse
Inaugurated 1987
Race type Thoroughbred - flat
Sponsor Widden (2016)
Race information
Distance 1,100 metres
Surface Turf
Track Right-handed
Qualification Two year old
Weight Set weights
colts and geldings – 56 12 kg
fillies – 54 12 kg
Purse A$200,000 (2016)

The Kindergarten Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group 3 Australian Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged two years old, at set weights, over a distance of 1100 metres at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia in the autumn during the ATC Championships series.

Race was inaugurated in 1987.

It was held annually in March prior to the Golden Slipper Stakes but in 2012 was moved to April as part of the Australian Derby Day race card at Randwick.

The following thoroughbreds have captured the Kindergarten Stakes – Golden Slippers double:
Star Watch (1988), Bint Marscay (1993), Guineas (1997), Belle Du Jour (2000) and Forensics (2007)

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