The Birthday Card Stakes is a Group 3 quality handicap race for fillies & mares that takes place each year in March at Rosehill racecourse in Sydney, New South Wales during the autumn carnival. The race is run over a distance of 1200 metres and worth $125,000 in prizemoney. The 2011 Birthday Card Stakes was won by Zingaling from Ladys Angel with Flying Success third.
The race has been named the 'Cleanevent Stakes' in recent years and takes place on Gr1 Rosehill Guineas day.
The Birthday Card Stakes is a fillies & mares quality handicap that attracts handy types suited to the handicap conditions of the race. The better mares in the race will be carrying high weights which makes the task of winning much tougher than if it were raced at level weights. Improving fillies & mares that can get into the race on the limit or can beat the handicapper will be attractive betting propositions.
Occasionally a top class filly or mare might tackle this event, but it is typically not a race for the elite females and generally winners and placegetters will simply be above average types who may continue to a race like the Gr2 Sapphire Stakes (1200m) on Derby day at Randwick.
Zingaling (2011) resumed from a spell to win this race and recent Birthday Card Stakes winners have been Patronyme (2010) and Gamble Me (2009).
2011 Birthday Card Stakes result
1. $11.00 Zingaling 54 J A Cassidy
2. $7.00 Ladys Angel 53 T Clark
3. $16.00 Flying Success 53.5 T Berry
then followed
4. $26.00 Kimillsy 53 B Avdulla
5. $7.50 Ofcourseican 55 C Reith
6. $51.00 Oakfield Beauty 53 J Byrne
7. $3.20 Kiss From A Rose 55.5 N Rawiller
8. $18.00 Little Surfer Girl 54.5 G Schofield
9. $21.00 Bacchanal Woman 55 C Brown
10. $41.00 Princess Qualo 53 C Williams
11. $9.50 Trim 57 J Bowman
12. $13.00 Jerezana 54.5 K Mc Evoy
13. $21.00 Miss Independent 53 D Ganderton
14. $16.00 Chance Bye 53.5 Ms K O'Hara
Margins: Short neck, short neck Time: 1:10.63
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