The Star Kingdom Stakes is a Group 3 open handicap race held annually each March at Rosehill racecourse in Sydney, New South Wales. The race is run over a distance of 1100 metres and worth $125,000 in prizemoney. The 2011 Star Kingdom Stakes was won by Swift Alliance from News Alert with Cardinal Virtue third.
The Star Kingdom Stakes is an open handicap that typically attracts solid, in-form sprinters or horses who cannot run out a strong 1200m and tend to race best at the shorter distance of 1100 metres. A race such as the Gr2 Challenge Stakes is a good lead up race, while the Gr1 The Galaxy may be next on the radar for any horses contesting this event.
Typically attracting above average types rather than the elite, the Star Kingdom Stakes entrants who tackle this race and then head on to the Galaxy will quite often find the Group 1 sprint a tough nut to crack, as evidenced by Jetball (1994) being the last horse to win both the Star Kingdom Stakes & Galaxy double in the same year.
Swift Alliance (2010-11) ran unplaced in the listed McCarten Stakes at Rosehill prior to winning this race for the second year in a row and recent Star Kingdom Stakes winners include The Jackal (2009) and Hoystar (2008).
2011 Star Kingdom Stakes result
1. $3.20 Swift Alliance 60.0 N Rawiller
2. $9.00 News Alert 57.0 J Cassidy
3. $20.00 Cardinal Virtue 53.0 J Adams
then Followed
4. $4.40 Atomic Force 54.5 T Clark
5. $14.00 Star Of Octagonal 53.0 C Brown
6. $26.00 Madibagold 53.0 N Berry
7. $8.00 Latin News 53.0 K Mc Evoy
8. $5.50 Dorf Command 53.0 G Boss
9. $20.00 Prince Braeman 53.5 T Berry
10. $19.00 Nightofthegeneral 53.0 B Avdulla
11. $151.00 Ravna Gora 53.0 Ms K O'Hara
Margins: 3 Len, 1/2 Len Time: 1:03.47
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