The AJC Sires Produce Stakes is a Group 1 race for two-year-olds that takes place each April at Randwick racecourse in Sydney, New South Wales.The race is run over a distance of 1400 metres and worth $500,000 in prizemoney. The 2011 AJC Sires Produce Stakes was won by Helmet from Uate with Pane In The Glass third.
The AJC Sires Produce Stakes is a classic event for two-year-olds that gives young horses their first test at greater than 1200m in a group race during the autumn. Horses who contested the Gr1 Golden Slipper Stakes at Rosehill two weeks earlier will most likely be aimed at this event and the race suits horses who run on strongly in the Slipper, where the extra distance of this event may assist.
It's a race that is usually taken out by a very good galloper who may go on to bigger and better things. Quality gallopers Dance Hero (2004), Victory Vein (2002), Encounter (1997), Octagonal (1995) & St Covet (1994) all won this race as a two-year-old.
More recently, Yosei (2011) won the Gr1 Thousand Guineas at Caulfield the following spring while Manhattan Rain (2009) went on to finish a top second behind So You Think in the Gr1 WS Cox Plate and Rostova (3rd in 2009) won the Gr1 Robert Sangster Stakes in the autumn of 2010.
This race has been a great guide to the Gr1 Champagne Stakes over 1600m on the final day of the Randwick autumn carnival and in recent times Skilled (2nd in 2010), Samantha Miss (2nd in 2008) & Meurice (2nd in 2007) went on to win the Champagne Stakes, while Dance Hero (2004), Hasna (2003), Victory Vein (2002), Viscount (2001), Assertive Lad (2000) all won the Sires Produce Stakes & Champagne Stakes double.
Onemorenomore (4th in 2009) went on to win the Champagne Stakes, while Tickets (2nd in 2009) ran second in the same race, with Manhattan Rain (2009) finishing third.
Helmet (2011) won a two-year-old race over 1200m at Rosehill prior to winning this race and recent Sires Produce Stakes winners have been Yosei (2010) and Manhattan Rain (2009).
2011 AJC Sires Produce Stakes result
1. $4.60 Helmet 56.5 K Mc Evoy
2. $14.00 Uate 56.5 N Rawiller
3. $17.00 Pane In The Glass 54.5 J Byrne
Then followed
4. $9.50 Shared Reflections 54.5 D Oliver
5. $21.00 Disputes 54.5 J Parr
6. $21.00 Fast And Sexy 54.5 G Schofield
7. $3.30 Elite Falls 54.5 J A Cassidy
8. $4.40 Do You Think 56.5 J Bowman
9. $101.00 King's Pact 56.5 C W Brown
10. $61.00 Boys On Tour 56.5 Craig Williams
11. $20.00 Exceed And Exalt 56.5 Nathan Berry
Margins: 1/2 len, 1/2 len Time: 1:24.00
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