Show County Quality
(Redirected from Show County Quality Handicap)
| Class | Group 3 |
|---|---|
| Location | Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia |
| Inaugurated | 1993 |
| Race type | Thoroughbred |
| Sponsor | Hyland Race Colours (2025) |
| Race information | |
| Distance | 1,200 metres |
| Surface | Turf |
| Track | Right-handed |
| Qualification | Horses three years old and older |
| Weight | Quality Minimum weight – 53 kg Maximum weight – 61 kg |
| Purse | $250,000 (2025) |
The Show County Quality is an Australian Turf Club Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds and older, run as a quality handicap over a distance of 1200 metres at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia in August.[1]
History
[edit | edit source]The race is named in honour of the versatile sprinter Show County, who as a two-year-old and three year old in 1988 and 1989 won the following races:[2]
- Breeders' Plate
- Silver Slipper Stakes
- Maribyrnong Plate
- Skyline Stakes
- Stan Fox Stakes
- San Domenico Stakes
- Roman Consul Stakes.
Grade
[edit | edit source]- 1993–2012 - Listed race
- 2013 onwards - Group 3
Venue
[edit | edit source]- 1993–1994 - Randwick Racecourse
- 1995–1999 - Warwick Farm Racecourse
- 2000 - Canterbury Park Racecourse
- 2001–2004 - Warwick Farm Racecourse
- 2005–2006 - Randwick Racecourse
- 2008 onwards - Warwick Farm Racecourse
- 2009 - Randwick Racecourse
- 2010–2013 - Warwick Farm Racecourse
- 2014 onwards - Randwick Racecourse
Winners
[edit | edit source]Previous winners of the race are:[3]
- 2025 - Lazzura
- 2024 - Joliestar
- 2023 - Buenos Noches
- 2022 - Showmanship[4]
- 2021 - Private Eye[5]
- 2020 - Roheryn[6]
- 2019 - Deprive[7]
- 2018 - Le Romain[8]
- 2017 - Deploy[9]
- 2016 - Tycoon Tara[10]
- 2015 - Decision Time[11]
- 2014 - Terravista[12]
- 2013 - Rebel Dane[13]
- 2012 - Moment of Change[14]
- 2011 - Skytrain[15]
- 2010 - Kenny's World[16]
- 2009 - Swift Alliance[17]
- 2008 - Bank Robber[18]
- 2007 - †race not held
- 2006 - Primus[19]
- 2005 - Lotteria[20]
- 2004 - Athelnoth[21]
- 2003 - Sportsman[22]
- 2002 - Presently[23]
- 2001 - Kingsgate[24]
- 2000 - Stanzaic[25]
- 1999 - Upright[26]
- 1998 - Siddinghausen[27]
- 1997 - Might And Power[28]
- 1996 - Winning Hand[29]
- 1995 - Identikit[30]
- 1994 - Remouche[31]
- 1993 - Big Dreams[32]
† Not held because of outbreak of equine influenza[33]
See also
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