The Sweet Embrace Stakes is a Group 3 race for two-year-old fillies that takes place each March at Randwick racecourse in Sydney, New South Wales during the sutumn racing carnival. The race is run over a distance of 1200 metres under set weight conditions and worth $125,000 in prizemoney. The 2011 Sweet Embrace Stakes was won by Shared Reflections from Streama with Pane In The Glass third.
The winner of the Sweet Embrace Stakes is exempt from ballot for the Golden Slipper Stakes and the race was held at Warwick Farm for the 2010/2011 racing season.
The Sweet Embrace Stakes is for 2yo fillies only and allows young female gallopers the chance to step up to 1200m for the first time in a group race during autumn. Quite often the extra 100 metres of this race from previous 2yo open races like the Gr2 Silver Slipper Stakes and Gr3 Kindergarten Stakes over 1100m will find some fillies out, while others will be coming home strongly looking for more ground.
This race is the female equivalent of the Gr3 Skyline Stakes for colts & geldings and will sort out those gallopers who are strong at 1200m and may have a realistic chance in the Gr1 Golden Slipper Stakes at Rosehill in April. Crystal Filly (2010) was the last filly to win this race and go on to win the Slipper while Headway (2009) finished runner-up in the Golden Slipper after scoring in this event.
Two-year-olds tackling this event have the option of heading to Rosehill for the Gr2 Reisling Slipper Trial or the Gr2 Magic Night Stakes and both races are for 2yo gallopers over the same course & distance as the $3.5M Golden Slipper Stakes and provide the ideal final tune up for Australia's richest two-year-old race.
Shared Reflections (2011) ran third in the listed Widdens Stakes over 1100m at Randwick on her way to winning this event and recent Sweet Embrace Stakes winners have been Crystal Lily (2010) and Headway (2009).
2011 Sweet Embrace Stakes result
1. $3.90 Shared Reflections 55.5 N Rawiller
2. $21.00 Streama 55.5 J Bowman
3. $3.80 Pane In The Glass 55.5 J Byrne
Then followed:
4. $41.00 Al's Magic Miss 55.5 C Reith
5. $4.40 Aerobatics 55.5 K Mc Evoy
6. $5.00 Defiant Dame 55.5 G Boss
7. $11.00 Saramenha 55.5 N Berry
8. $101.00 Seven Fly Seven 55.5 J Cassidy
Margins: Len, 2 1/2 len Time: 1:09.52
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