The Frances Tressady Stakes is a Group 3 race for mares that takes place annually in March at Flemington racecourse in Melbourne during the Melbourne autumn racing carnival. The race is run over 1400 metres under set weight & penalty conditions and is worth $150,000 in prizemoney. The 2011 Frances Tressady Stakes was won by Aloha from Flying Tessie with I'm Discreet third.
Held alongside the Gr1 Australian Guineas at Flemington, the Frances Tressady Stakes has had a number of recent sponsors and for the 2011/2012 racing season was run as the 'PFD Food Services Stakes'.
The Frances Tressady Stakes is a handy group race on the calendar for mares looking to add a black type stakes race to their resume and the winner is more often than not simply a handy mare who may go on to race well in similar type mares events.
Occasionally this race can produce a quality galloper such as the talented Typhoon Tracy (2009) who won this race before heading to Rosehill to win the Gr1 Coolmore Stud Classic at Rosehill during the Sydney autumn racing carnival.
The Gr3 Mannerism Stakes at Caulfield in February is the typical lead-up race for this event and mares contesting this race might consider going on to the Gr 3 Matron Stakes over 1600m and under the same weighted conditions one week later at the same track on Super Saturday of Racing.
Aloha (2011) resumed from a spell to take out this race and recent Frances Tressady Stakes winners include Be Positive (2010) and Typhoon Tracy (2009).
2011 Frances Tressady Stakes result
1. $2.15 Aloha 56.5 G Boss
2. $12.00 Flying Tessie 56.5 C Williams
3. $7.50 I'm Discreet 55.0 K Mc Evoy
then followed
4. $5.00 Impressive Eagle 55.0 B Melham
5. $13.00 Returntosender 57.5 L Nolen
6. $14.00 Casual Friday 56.5 B Prebble
7. $20.00 Dane Julia 57.5 M Walker
8. $17.00 Preventable 54.0 C Newitt
9. $151.00 Music In The Park 54.5 D Nikolic
Margin: 2 len, short neck Time: 1:22.37
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